Company
Ubixum is a technology-based company with specialty in image sensors. The name Ubixum comes from the word ubiquitous.
Founders
Ubixum was founded by Keith Fife and Lane Brooks. Keith and Lane met at MIT as undergraduates. They worked together on a three-camera stereo vision research project and also won MIT's Autonomous Robot Competition together in 1999. After MIT, Keith co-founded SMaL Camera Technologies and Lane joined shortly thereafter. At SMaL Camera Technologies, they developed a custom image sensor and ASIC for a highly integrated credit-card sized digital camera that won Best of CES and was awarded World's Thinness Camera by Guinness in 2002. They also developed sensors with control for extended dynamic range that have enabled some of the driver-assisted vision systems available within the automotive industry today.
After SMaL Camera was successfully acquired by Cypress Semiconductor in 2005, Lane and Keith went back to complete their doctorate degrees at MIT and Stanford. Keith's research focused on multi-aperture imaging where he demonstrated pixels as small as half-micron by developing CCD structures in modified CMOS technology. Lane's research focused on power efficient analog-to-digital conversion in scaled CMOS technologies where he demonstrated several state-of-the-art pipelined ADCs with new architectures for switched capacitor circuits that eliminate operational amplifiers.