since 1996 industry fabless semiconductor founded 2002 2002 founders prof. dr. rudolf schwarte audi electronics venture gmbh headquarters siegen germany key people dr. bernd buxbaum dr. thomas may products 3d cmos image sensors number of employees 70 2015 citation needed website www.pmdtec.com pmd technologies ag stylised as pmdtechnologies is a developer of cmos semiconductor 3d time of flight tof components and a provider of engineering support in the field of digital 3d imaging . 1 the company is named after the photonic mixer device pmd technology used in its products to detect 3d data in real time . the corporate headquarters of the company is located in siegen germany . contents 1 history 2 products 3 references 4 further reading 5 external links history edit pmd technologies was founded in 2002 by rudolf schwarte and the audi electronics venture gmbh 2 as a spin off of the center for sensor systems zess at the university of siegen germany . it was the result of over 10 years of scientific research on 3d tof imaging . 3 another zess spin off s tec sensor gmbh founded in 1996 began developing pmd products in 1997 . this company was acquired by pmd technologies in 2002 . basic patents for tof chips with new photomischelemente i.e. photonic mixing elements resp . devices were filed in 1996 onwards by prof. rudolf schwarte . 4 a 3d depth camera with time of flight pmd sensors was available in the year 2000 . 5 in 2002 together with three other nominees the developing team of pmd technologies represented by rudolf schwarte bernd buxbaum and torsten gollewski was nominated for the german future prize which is issued by the president of germany at that time johannes rau . 6 7 at the hanover fair in 2005 pmd technologies was awarded with the innovation prize called hermes award for its efector pmd . 8 in 2009 pmd technologies received the 2009 european real time 3d imaging enabling technology innovation award by frost & sullivan . 9 pmd technologies is taking part in google s project tango . 10 products edit after initially focusing on industrial applications 11 12 pmd technologies began to spread their application areas into other fields including the automotive sector 13 14 consumer electronics gaming 15 security & surveillance medical technology 16 and live sciences . in 2013 pmd technologies cooperated with infineon technologies to produce 3 d image sensor chips for touchless gesture recognition . 17 pmd sensors are used in the exteroceptive sensor suite of nasa s robot valkyrie . 18 the autonomous humanoid robot justin by the german aerospace center dlr is equipped with pmd sensors . 19 references edit small and inexpensive 3d image sensor . frost.com . audi technologiemagazin dialoge 1 2011 in german die sehende diode johannes k bler . vdi nachrichten in german http www.vdi nachrichten.com vdi nachrichten startzeit article.asp id 61 verfahren und vorrichtung zur bestimmung der phasen und oder amplitudeninformation einer elektromagnetischen welle google patents ling shao jungong han pushmeet kohli zhengyou zhang editors 2014 . computer vision and machine learning with rgb d sensors . springer science business media . p. 15 . isbn 3319086502 . cs1 maint multiple names authors list link isbn 9783319086507 team 3 deutscher zukunftspreis kamerapixel mit tiefgang durchbruch zum schnellen 3d sehen official site of the german future prize 3d kamera erfasst ihr r umliches umfeld in echtzeit dr. norbert lossau die welt 12 03 2002 einfachheit ist so wichtig wie zuverl ssigkeit vdi news no. 47 association of german engineers heike freimann 11 22 2013 frost & sullivan bestows european enabling technology award in real time 3d imaging on pmdtechnologies gmbh frost & sullivan google i o 2015 project tango mobile 3d tracking and perception johnny lee at google i o 2015 pmd technologies timeline up to 2009 http www.ifm.com ifmus web pmd prd timeline.htm example for a pmd based automation product 3d image sensor evaluates size shape and level first pmdvision day automotive in german free space determination for parking slots using a 3d pmd sensor scheunert u. fardi b. mattern n. wanielik g. keppeler n. intelligent vehicles symposium 2007 ieee istanbul 13 15 june 2007 minority report futuristic interface technologies by 3d vision inspect online july 2009 time of flight sensor for patient positioning medical imaging 2009 visualization image guided procedures and modeling ; schaller adelt penne hornegger ; proceedings of the spie volume 7261 2009 clarke peter may 29 2013 . infineon launches 3 d sensor for gesture recognition . ee times . retrieved august 13 2015 . radford strawser hambuchen mehling verdeyen donnan holley sanchez nguyen bridgwater berka ambrose mcquin yamokoski hart guo parsons wightman dinh ames blakely edmonson sommers rea tobler bibby howard nui lee conover truong chesney platt jr. johnson fok paine sentis cousineau sinnet lack powell morris ames . valkyrie nasa s first bipedal humanoid robot pdf . prof. aaron d. ames texas a & m university . retrieved august 13 2015 . cs1 maint multiple names authors list link mobiler humanoider oberk rper justin official site of the dlr institut f r robotik und mechatronik further reading edit prof. dr. ing . l. overmeyer s. kleinert stapeln leicht gemacht 3d kameratechnik unterst tzt die ladungshandhabung und hilft unf lle zu vermeiden industrial vision vereinigte fachverlage gmbh mainz 2011 external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title pmd technologies & oldid 722701323 categories companies established in 1996fabless semiconductor companieshidden categories cs1 maint multiple names authors listall articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from july 2015 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 29 may 2016 at 17 51 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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