Expanding New Possibilities
We provide the best solutions to support the success and expansion of our customers.
In recent years, we have been developing not only optical products, but also products that consider health and the environment, and we are expanding new possibilities in various scenes of society with systems that meet the needs of different applications.
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Optical Technology
We provide unique products in the field of optical products with our technological capabilities cultivated through the development and manufacturing of cameras for smartphones.
SilkyEvCam, an event-based camera, enables neuromorphic vision with a camera equipped with an image sensor that specializes in motion detection.
We can do what you want to do
We can do what you want to do. You have something you want to do, but you can not do it. You have technology, but you have not idea to be a product. We CenturyArks can solve your problem.
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| Jun.25.2025 | New event camera sample videos have been added! Our YouTube channel |
| Jun.10.2025 | Support for Student and Researchers! 10% off Event Camera Academic Campaign Begins June 10 |
| Jun.9.2025 | This week: Image Sensing Show 2025 at Pacific Yokohama on Wed - Fri., June 11 - 13. (The link leads to an external site.) CenturyArks booth No. AS-9 Seminar "Event Cameras Meet Efficient AI — Transforming IoT Edge Devices as They Enter Real-World Use!" on June 11, at 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. |
| Jun.4.2025 | Coming Soon! A Special Announcement for Students and Researchers! Stay Tuned for the reveal on June 10! |
| May 15.2025 | Image Sensing Show 2025 at Yokohama in June! |
| Apr.25.2025 | The SilkyEvCam® Event Camera Series Grows |
| Apr.18.2025 | CenturyArks’ business schedule during Golden Week in 2025. Closed: April 29 (Tue.) & May 3 (Sat.) - May 6 (Tue.) Open: April 28 (Mon.) & April 30 (Wed.) - May 2 (Fri.) Please note that inquiries received during the Golden Week may take longer than usual to be processed. Thank you in advance for your understanding. |
| Apr.8.2025 | New Look! Our Event Camera "SilkyEvCam®" Sample Page has been updated! |
| Apr.1.2025 | Announcement of Executive Appointments |
| Mar. 7.2025 | Introducing the Event Camera Contest Award Information in the April Issue "Transistor Technology" and "Research" section on our website. |
| Feb.21.2025 | Here is more about CenturyArks's initiatives regarding "SEED INTRODUCES ADVANCED MULTI-PURPOSE PLATFORM FOR SMART CONTACT LENSES" led by SEED Co., Ltd. (The link leads to an external site.) |
| Feb.4.2025 | Introducing the Press Release "SEED INTRODUCES ADVANCED MULTI-PURPOSE PLATFORM FOR SMART CONTACT LENSES" distributed by SEED Co., Ltd. on February 4, 2025 (The link leads to an external site.) CenturyArks is also collaborating on this project. |
| Feb.3.2025 | METAVISION® SDK V5.1.0 has been released by Prophesee |
| Jan30.2025 | Winners Announced for the Event Camera Application Idea and Algorithm Contest 2024 |
| Jan.23.2025 | Event Camera Seminar held for Miyazaki Nishi High School |
| Jan.15.2025 | Continuously adding sample videos of SilkyEvCam® to our YouTube channel! ex) Vibration detection of a USB fan |
| Dec.3.2024 | <Schedule for the year-end and the New Year’s period> Our office will be closed from December 28, 2024 to January 5, 2025 for the year-end holidays. We are starting to respond to inquiries received during the period above on Monday, January 6. We appreciate your understanding, and we wish you a joyful holiday season and a Happy New Year! |
| Nov.11.2024 | Open Innovation EXPO and a seminar on site! We will exhibit and hold a seminar at the Open Innovation EXPO in Pacfico Yokohama on December 5 & 6, 2024. Our booth: 1-21 Seminar: "Innovative Society 5.0 Cloud solution with event-cameras and Edge AI" at Pacifico Yokohama's seminar C room, 3:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. on Dec. 5. |
| Oct.31.2024 | <News Release> Simultaneous acquisition of Event and Frame data! Event Camera Product, SilkyEvCam® BothView Now Available |
| Oct.30.2024 | !!Powered by SilkyEvcam® SilkyEvCam® is introduced at electronica 2024 in Munich, Germany November 12 - 15, 2024 ViMOS Technologies GmbH Booth No. 440 at Hall C |
| Oct.11,2024 | Regarding Metavision® SDK Version 5 Announced by PROPHESEE on October 7, 2024 |
| Oct.1.2024 | Be our guest: Visit us at VISION 2024 -the world's leading trade fair for machine vision in Stuttgart, Germany! Date: October 8, 2024 (Tue.) - October 10, 2024 (Thu.) Our Booth No. 10C16 (Hall 10) Our "Beyond EVS Cameras" will be introduced! Looking forward to seeing you. VISION | Messe Stuttgart (messe-stuttgart.de) |
| Aug.20.2024 | New sample videos (Glass bottle and Metal plate, YouTube CenturyArks' channel) of SilkyEvCam®,event-based vision camera! Click here to see other sample videos, Please a look. |
| July 12.2024 | <Summer Business Holiday> (updated on July 17, 2024) Summer Business Holiday Period: Saturday, August 10, 2024 – Sunday, August 18, 2024 We are starting to respond to inquiries received during the holiday period on Monday, August 19, however there is possibilities to take longer time than usual. We appreciate your understanding. |
| July 8.2024 | SilkyEvCam plug-in update files for METAVISION® 4.6.2 have been released. |
| June 11.2024 | <News Release> New Module "GenX320 4x5" Launches! Additional Option for Event Camera, SilkyEvCam® Series The product will be exhibited at our booth (D-26) in Image Sensing Show 2024 on June 12-14. |
| May 24.2024 | SilkyEvCam plug-in update files for METAVISION® 4.6.x have been released. |
| May 14.2024 | Exhibit at Image Sensing Show 2024 & lecture at Imaging Seminars in June! We will exhibit at the tradeshow and introduce our compact high performance camera modules and event-based vision camera, etc. and also give a lecture on event cameras at the imaging seminar at the tradeshow on the first day! Please visit our booth. Date & place: June 12 (Wed.) – 14 (Fri.), 2024 & Pacifico Yokohama (Yokohama-city, Kanagawa pref.) Seminar's date & time: 11:10 a.m. - 12:00 p.m., June 12 (Wed.) |
| Apr.25.2024 | CenturyArks’ business schedule during Golden Week in 2024. Closed: April 27 (Sat.) - April 29 (Mon.) & May 3 (Fri.) - May 6 (Mon.) Open: April 30 (Tue) - May 2 (Thu.) Please note that inquiries received during the Golden Week may take longer than usual to be processed. Thank you in advance for your understanding. |
| Apr.4.2024 | <News Release> Event-based Vision Camera Application idea and Algorithm Contest for Students and Researchers Begins on April. 10! |
| Mar.21.2024 | <News Release> Expansion of Compact High-Performance CA Camera Module Product Line! Two New Products for Raspberry Pi 4 Users are Available on March 21 |
| Mar.1.2024 | The problem with the inquiry form has been resolved, and it is now available for use again. |
| Feb.29.2024 | Please be informed that our HP has been a problem with the "Inquiry Form" on our website since early today (Feb. 29. Japan time) We also accept inquiries by e-mails as below. - For purchasing: ca_sales@centuryarks.com - For technical information: ca-qa@centuryarks.com If you have submitted an inquiry form today, we would appreciate it if you could resend your inquiries us to the e-mail address above. We apologize for the inconvenience. |
| Jan.25.2024 | Introduced at TOKYO XR/Metaverse & Contents Business World (~ Sunday, January 28), SilkyEvCam®GenX320 4x5 CenturyArks & Prophesee Booth No. 130 (XR Area) |
| Dec. 21.2023 | A big step into XR, AI & wearable device market! CenturyArks and Prophesee will collaborate to exhibit at TOKYO XR/Metaverse & Contents Business World in January 2024. We will introduce the latest information and line products of Event Base Vision, so please visit our booth. Date & Place: January 26 (Fri.)-28 (Sun.), 2024 & Tokyo Big Sight (Koto-ku, Tokyo) |
| Dec.18.2023 | SilkyEvCam plug-in update files for METAVISION® 4.5.x have been released. |
| Dec.7.2023 | <Schedule for the year-end and the New Year’s period> Our office will be closed from December 28, 2023 to January 4, 2024 for the year-end holidays. We are starting to respond to inquiries received during the period above on Friday, January 5. We appreciate your understanding, and we wish you a joyful holiday season and a Happy New Year! |
| Nov.27.2023 | Camera module "CA378-AOIS" now supports Raspberry Pi OS Debian version 12 (bookworm). |
| Nov.22.2023 | Two new sample videos were released! Bubble counting and Moment of a golf iron shot |
| Oct. 26,2023 | ＜News Release＞ CenturyArks Launches on Amazon Event-Based Vision Cameras “SilkyEvCam®” to a New Market (For the time being, Amazon purchases are only shipped within Japan.) |
| Oct.12.2023 | SilkyEvCam plug-in update files for METAVISION® 4.4.x have been released. |
| Sep.7.2023 | The show opens shortly! We will exhibit at the 2nd NEPCON Japan to be held at Makuhari Messe next week. You can experience the event-based vision camera SilkyEvCam® and peripheral application equipment, and see the compact high-performance camera module CA378-AIOS V2. In addition, at the New Product/New Technology Seminar - New Tech Trend - we will show you how the EVS-equipped camera works and the latest information (Japanese only) Our booth number is 7-40. We look forward to seeing you at our booth. |
| Aug.9.2023 | SilkyEvCam plug-in update files for METAVISION® 4.3.x have been released. |
| Aug.7.2023 | <News release> Catch any “movement” with light changes! High-Resolution Event-Based Camera Model "SilkyEvCam® HD" Officially Launched on August 7 - 10 Winners to Receive Discount Coupons by Drawing - |
| Aug.4.2023 | SilkyEvCam HD DataSheet is now available for download. You can download it from the Product information on the download page. |
| July.31.2023 | <Summer Business Holiday> Summer Business Holiday Period: Fri., August 11, 2023 – Tue., August 15, 2023 We are starting to respond to inquiries received during the holiday period, however there is possibilities to take longer time than usual, We appreciate your understanding. |
| July.7.2023 | Article on camera EVS appeared in the August issue of “Transista Gijutsu (Transistor Technology)”! |
| July.7.2023 | More Bustling than Expected! Report on exhibitions in June |
| July.4.2023 | Camera module ”CA378-AOIS” for Raspberry Pi 4 is avaiable now! |
| Jun.9,2023 | <News release> Start offering the product at more reasonable price! “SilkyEvCam® (VGA)”, an Event-Based Camera captures the minute changes in light and outputs it with its coordinates and time efficiently, its price is revised on June 9, 2023 |
| May.26.2023 | SilkyEvCam plug-in update files for METAVISION™ 4.1.x have been released. |
| Apr.27,2023 | <Schedule of the Golden Week (GW)> GW Holidays: Sat., Apr. 29 & Sun., Apr. 30 and Wed., May 3 through Sun., May 7 We are open on Mon., May 1 and Tue., May 2. We are starting to respond to inquiries received during the GW on Mon., May 8, however it would take loger time than usual. We appreciate your understanding. |
| Apr.6.2023 | SilkyEvCam plug-in update files for METAVISION™ 4.0.x have been released. |
| Feb.16.2023 | SilkyEvCam plug-in source file is now available for download. Fill out and submit the form on the download page. |
| Feb.6.2023 | We have added a new page for sample videos taken with SilkyEvCam. Please take a look them. |
| Nov.1.2022 | SilkyEvCam (VGA) / SilkyEvCam HD plug-in file and firmware update file for PROPHESEE METAVISION™ V3.1.0 have been released. |
| Oct.11.2022 | New Product ! Event-based Vision Camera SilkyEvCam HD page is now available. |
| Sep.5.2022 | Web site updated. Detailed explanation about Event Base Vision Camera and many sample videos are available. |
| Jul.4.2022 | SilkyEvCam plug-in update files for METAVISION™ 3.0.x have been updated. |
| Jun.15.2022 | SilkyEvCam plug-in update files for METAVISION™ 3.0.x have been released. |
| Apr.28.2022 | SilkyEvCam plug-in update files for METAVISION™ 2.3.2 have been released. |
| Nov 30,2021 | SilkyEvCam firmware and plug-in update files for METAVISION™ 2.3 have been released. |
| Nov 26,2021 | Our website has been renewed. It now supports smart phone display! |
| May 12,2021 | Updated SilkyEvCamplugin(2.5.4) for METAVISION™ 2.2. |
| Feb 17,2021 | Added SilkyEvCam firmware & plugin update information. |
| Oct 25,2020 | Event Based Vision Camera(SilkyEvCam) product site has been updated. |
| Oct 6, 2020 | Event Based Vision Camera(SilkyEvCam) product site has been added. (Scheduled to be released on October 25, 2020) |
| Augt 7, 2019 | CenturyArks will close our office from August 10 to 15 (The Summer Vacation). |
| Jul 19, 2019 | [New product release] "USB Camera" is added. |
| Apr 25, 2019 | Due to a problem on the contact function of our website, we missed to reply you for some of your inquiries to us. Our responsible person will contact you soon. We apolpgize for your inconvenience. |
| Mar 26, 2019 | CenturyArks will close our office from April 28 to May 6 (The Golden Week Holidays). |
| May 8, 2017 | Relocated Hiroshima Office. |
| July 1, 2016 | Shigeru Ohshita is appointed to Representative Director. |
| Sep 1, 2015 | "Camera Module" is added |
| July 1, 2015 | Masahiro Mizuno is appointed to Representative Director. |
| July 1, 2014 | New home page is created for the renewal of company name. |
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