Himax Technologies, Inc. announced it will showcase how its broad technology portfolio is powering the next generation of intelligent devices at CES 2026, the world?s largest consumer electronics exhibition, taking place from January 6-9 in Las Vegas. Through a series of live demonstrations and technology showcases, Himax will highlight its latest WiseEye? endpoint AI innovations, the most comprehensive, market-leading automotive display IC portfolio, as well as state-of-the-art Front-lit LCoS microdisplays, advanced imaging and sensing solutions.
On the AI front, WiseEye AI is designed to bring intelligence directly onto the endpoint, enabling always-on sensing and real-time AI inference with negligible power consumption. At CES 2026, Himax will showcase a host of endpoint AI solutions spanning smart home, surveillance, automotive, smart city, access control, and emerging applications for next-generation AI PCs. Meanwhile, expanded applications for smart glasses and wearables powered by WiseEye AI will also be on display, developed in collaboration with major tech giants and traditional ODMs. During the event, Himax will highlight the versatile deployments of WiseEye AI in security applications, led by its latest WiseGuard endpoint AI solutions.
WiseGuard delivers ultralow power smart sensing with average power consumption below 0.1 mA and standby power of less than 0.001 mA, enabling up to five years of battery life while supporting high-precision event detection at distances of up to 10 meters. WiseGuard accurately detects and tracks multiple individuals, including their presence, location, and movement patterns, enhancing both security and user experience. Its familiar-face personalization capability further enables security systems to distinguish known occupants from visitors, supporting intelligent access control and reduced false alarms. Further, its proactive sensing capability enables systems to anticipate and capture key events in advance, providing forward-looking protection compared with conventional reactive security solutions.
For the rapidly evolving AI PC market, Himax WiseEye brings ultralow power consumption of merely a few milliwatts, instant responsiveness, and privacy-centric design, perfectly aligned with the industry?s trend toward always-aware and AI-driven PCs. WiseEye?s human presence detection (HPD) has seen expanding adoption across leading global brands. Additional feature upgrades are being developed with several leading notebook customers to tackle complex real-world scenarios for greater user convenience, all while maintaining exceptional power efficiency.
One such feature is gesture recognition that mimics keyboard input, allowing page scrolling or volume adjustment without a keyboard. Meanwhile, with large language model AI driving a shift from predefined command inputs to natural language human?machine interaction, Himax and customers are developing advanced features that are becoming essential such as voice-activated keyword spotting function (KWS). WiseEye serves as an ultralow power front end that performs wake-word detection, activating the CPU only when a specific trigger phrase is detected, enabling continuous audio monitoring even in noisy environments.
In the smart glasses and wearables segment, Himax is among the very few companies in the industry capable of delivering both critical display and AI technologies required for next-generation smart glasses and wearable devices. In intelligent sensing, WiseEye AI adds intelligent perception to the AR glasses by supporting both outward-facing environmental awareness sensing and precise inward-facing eye tracking at negligible power levels. In microdisplay, Himax?s latest Front-lit LCoS microdisplay achieves an optimal balance of form factor, weight, resolution, power consumption, and cost, while delivering high brightness and high color saturation, key attributes for AR glasses.
In addition, Himax?s proprietary LCoS solution features a highly flexible design that supports both green-only and full-color display configurations and is compatible with monocular and binocular waveguide designs. Active collaborations with multiple waveguide partners worldwide are underway. At CES, live demonstrations with AUO and Vuzix will highlight the performance and system readiness of the display solutions for AR glasses.
Combined, Himax?s WiseEye AI technologies, LCoS microdisplay and optics expertise enable smart glasses with longer battery life, strong on-device privacy, continuous contextual awareness, and sharp, detailed imagery, paving the way for all-day use in next-generation smart glasses. Himax showcases will also feature a comprehensive portfolio of technologies including its market-leading automotive IC solutions, with a particular focus on Tcon solutions for automotive HUD that address the growing demand for advanced, information-rich cockpit displays. Last but not least, a broad range of optical, imaging and sensing innovations will be on display.
Highlights include drone AI imaging solutions, Pro-Eye vision care monitor from Himax subsidiary Liqxtal Technology Inc., and a next-generation CMOS imager-based optical thermal sensor solution developed in collaboration with Calumino that is well positioned to address sensing and imaging requirements across industries ranging from Industrial IoT and healthcare to automotive. Collectively, these innovations demonstrate the breadth of Himax?s optical, imaging and sensing innovation portfolio.
