Toshiba has a new generation of beeldherkenningschip for application in the automotive industry. The Visconti2 can include the presence of pedestrians recognize. Also other traffic can be monitored.
The Visconti2-chipfamilie consists of two models. One of them supports four cameras with a resolution of 1.3 megapixels, which allows a 360-gradenbeeld can be built up for more help when parking, while the second model, a maximum of two of these cameras support.
For the detection of pedestrians allows Toshiba to use its own histogram or oriented gradients technology. This shall include a continuous look to the direction of edges in the image. Together with lichtveranderingen indicates that, according to Toshiba sufficient information to allow pedestrians to detect, both by day and night.
The beeldherkenningsprocessor can further include the distance to the vehicle ahead or to cars on the other lane treasures and give a warning. Also, different cars at the same time be recognized, as well as taxiways. The color information of the cameras can be used to check the status of traffic lights or signs along the way to recognize.
For the recognition of the images, the two chipmodellen equipped with in total four media processing engines”. Who are assisted by six dsp’s, that the image processing should accelerate. The first samples rolling next month of the band, while Toshiba in september 2012 will start with the mass production.
According to Electronics Weekly is Toshiba also variants of these chips to develop for industrial applications and consumer electronics. Toshiba uses face tracking via a camera in laptops and Regza tv line.
Voetgangerherkenning in cars is not a new feature. Among others, Volvo, Toyota, BMW and Mercedes offer in a few models already have such a system.
