50 companies in this capability, across 8 regions. The leading 12:

1. 1Sony GroupSony Semiconductor Solutions is the world's largest CMOS image sensor maker, with about half of global revenue share, and it is also the top international patent applicant in this capability.Manufacture
2. 2Samsung ElectronicsSamsung's System LSI division makes ISOCELL CMOS image sensors (including 200 MP sensors) and is the second-largest image sensor supplier worldwide.Manufacture
3. 3Teledyne TechnologiesTeledyne owns FLIR (thermal imaging), DALSA, e2v, Princeton Instruments and Judson, which makes it the broadest Western supplier of infrared, scientific, space and machine-vision imaging sensors.Manufacture
4. 4OmniVision (OmniVision Integrated Circuits Group)OmniVision (formerly Will Semiconductor, which acquired the US-founded OmniVision Technologies in 2019) is the third-largest CMOS image sensor vendor, strong in automotive, security and mobile sensors.Design
5. 5Hamamatsu PhotonicsHamamatsu is the leading maker of photomultiplier tubes, photodiodes, InGaAs and X-ray image sensors and scientific cameras used in research, medical and industrial photonic sensing.Manufacture
6. 6onsemionsemi leads the automotive image sensor market (the Hyperlux family for ADAS) and supplies industrial and SPAD/SiPM sensors for lidar.Manufacture
7. 7CanonCanon designs and makes its own CMOS and SPAD image sensors, optics and imaging systems, and it is the third-largest international patent applicant in this capability.Manufacture
8. 8STMicroelectronicsST is the leading supplier of time-of-flight ranging sensors built on SPAD arrays and makes global-shutter and automotive in-cabin image sensors.Manufacture
9. 9L3Harris TechnologiesL3Harris builds space electro-optical imaging payloads (including the WorldView Legion telescopes and weather imagers), WESCAM EO/IR turrets and night-vision systems.Integration
10. 10RTXRaytheon is a major US maker of EO/IR focal-plane arrays, targeting sensors (such as the MTS family) and space-based infrared and visible imaging instruments.Integration
11. 11SafranSafran Electronics & Defense and Safran Reosc make optronic sights, infrared cameras and large space optics, and Safran co-owns the infrared detector maker Lynred with Thales.Integration
12. 12ThalesThales is a top European optronics house (Damocles/TALIOS pods, thermal sights), builds Earth-observation optical instruments through Thales Alenia Space and co-owns infrared detector maker Lynred.Integration