Boston-based Metalenz announced Wednesday that it acquired Israeli startup PxE Imaging, adding technology designed to capture color and depth information with a single camera. Financial terms were not disclosed.
In its company announcement, Metalenz said PxE’s Holocoder technology is patterned directly onto an image sensor and redirects light rather than absorbing it through a conventional color filter. The company says this delivers 2.5 times more light while capturing depth alongside color. That performance figure is a company claim, not an independent test.
The company said capturing that information in hardware can reduce the need for separate sensors and some software processing. The acquisition expands Metalenz into visible imaging, adding to its polarization sensing technology. Applications named in the announcement include consumer electronics, automotive systems, drones, robotics and machine vision.
PxE co-founder and CEO Yoav Berlatzky said joining Metalenz would give the technology a manufacturing platform and wider commercial reach. Metalenz co-founder and CEO Rob Devlin said the combination expands the information its sensors can provide without relying on heavy computation.
Metalenz, spun out of Harvard University in 2016, said it has shipped more than 300 million metasurface optics into consumer devices. That figure describes Metalenz’s existing business, not PxE shipments.
JBizNews Desk | New York
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