Obstacle recognition comes to cars
Renesas Electronics Corp. wasn’t on the CES floor. It put on this demo at its hotel suite. The model car is using the R-Car V2H SoC to recognize obstacles and handle high-resolution surround viewing as you might find in advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS). The model contains four cameras and the Renesas system stitches together an image (bottom) from the resulting information to produce a surround-view that expands what the system sees to every direction around the vehicle. The R-Car V2H SoC incorporates a core dedicated to viewpoint conversion called an IMR, an IMP-X4 image recognition core, and a 3-D graphics core. The 3-D graphics core is optimized to support texture mapping from the camera feeds. The chipset also incorporates functions to reduce power consumption such as a power cutoff function for the integrated cores and a DDR3-SDRAM power backup function.
Look for systems based on this chipset in 2017 model year vehicles.
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