Beijing Ruisi Intelligent Core Technology

Beijing Ruisi Intelligent Core Technology, operating internationally as AlpsenTek, is a semiconductor company established in 2019 by Founder and CEO Jian Deng. The company is dual-headquartered in Beijing, China, and has a significant presence in Zurich, Switzerland, alongside other R&D centers in Shenzhen and Nanjing. AlpsenTek has secured substantial financial backing, raising a total of $30 million over three funding rounds, including a notable Series A round in June 2022. This round was co-led by Xunxing Investment, affiliated with smartphone giant OPPO, and Cowin Capital, with participation from existing investors like Lenovo Capital and Incubator Group, ArcSoft Corp, and Sunny Optical Industry Fund.

AlpsenTek is focused on the machine vision market, developing sensor technology that mimics the function of the human eye. The company’s core offering is its proprietary Hybrid Vision® technology, which uniquely integrates two types of sensors—a conventional frame-based image sensor and a bionic event-based vision sensor (EVS)—at the single-pixel level. This fusion allows its chips to simultaneously output both a high-quality, traditional image stream and a stream of event data that only captures changes in light, such as movement. The key benefit is a significant reduction in redundant data, lower power consumption, and a much higher dynamic range and frame rate compared to conventional sensors alone.

The company's product line, the ALPIX™ series, is built on this hybrid technology. A key product, the ALPIX-Eiger™, is an 8.0-megapixel fusion vision sensor designed for high-end imaging in devices like smartphones and motion cameras. It boasts an extremely high dynamic range of 110dB and an equivalent frame rate of 5000fps, enabling advanced functions like motion de-blurring and superior performance in extreme light and dark conditions. The business model encompasses selling these sensor chips directly, providing integrated machine vision modules, and licensing its intellectual property. AlpsenTek serves a broad client base across consumer electronics, smart automobiles, robotics, and smart security industries. The firm has established key strategic collaborations, including a partnership with OPPO and Qualcomm to enhance mobile photography by using its hybrid sensors in Snapdragon Mobile Platforms.

Keywords: machine vision, hybrid vision sensor, event-based vision, image sensor, semiconductor, ALPIX, computer vision, vision technology, sensor fusion, bionic vision, CMOS image sensor, smart automobiles, robotics, consumer electronics, edge AI, motion de-blurring, high dynamic range imaging, intelligent vision, vision AI, sensor chips