Smartphones and wearables

• Large addressable market for which billions of cameras are produced each year
• 1,5 billion phones per year with 1 front camera and an average of 3 back cameras
• Increasing demands on both camera functionality and battery life
• Potential addressable market for TLens^®/poLight^® technology estimated at 3 billion units per year

Barcode/Industrial

• Evolving from 1D laser to 2D imaging barcode readers
• Lasers replaced by camera systems, where autofocus will improve efficiency in scanning and portfolio
• Barcode technology is spreading to new industries
• OEM scan engine vendors today are increasingly looking to enable machine vision capabilities in their current offerings

Augmented Reality (AR)

• AR is expected to to grow dramatically as the technology is rapidly expanding beyond entertainment and gaming to an increasing number of industrial, commercial and educational applications
• AR-enabled glasses will be deployed beyond professional use cases and gradually become a consumer device

Other

• New opportunities are emerging that could represent significant potential
• Webcam video conferencing and medical endoscopy are just two examples of new opportunities for poLight^® technology