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What is IMAPCAR?
Sample Pre-crash Safety Feature Using IMAPCAR Video Recognition
Our Approach
Utilizing video recognition as a core improvement to vehicle safety will require highly reliable mass produced products, and the flexibility to make technical innovations rapidly. Until now, however, the only way to provide the real-time processing required for video recognition was with large, dedicated hardware.
IMAPCAR uses software for the entire processor base. This makes it easy to develop, modify, and upgrade. Today, nearly all cars are equipped with airbags, which has greatly reduced the number of fatalities. The number of traffic accidents, however, actually continues to increase. In the future, we can expect the number of traffic accidents to fall through the use of cars that avoid collisions via preventive safety systems using less technology. IMAPCAR is a major step toward making this a reality, delivering the video recognition technology that has until now been a major stumbling block.
A highly parallel processor performs real-time image processing for embedded devices
IMAPCAR Features
- High performance: 170 GOPS(*1)
Real-time image processing for robots and other embedded devices - All-software parallel processing using 32 to 128 processors
Flexibly change algorithms during research and development - High reliability: Automotive quality design
Support for everything from R&D to industrial applications with devices having track record in Automotive use
*1: Giga Operations per Second (GOPS) is the number of billions of operations performed in one second (performance for IMAPCAR2-200)
Overview of IMAPCAR Device (IMAPCAR2-200)
Parallel processing architecture enables fast image processing
- 64 processing units (PEs) follow same instruction
- Multiple instructions can be executed simultaneously in one cycle
- Each PE has independent built-in local memory
Wide Application
IMAPCAR's practical image-recognition capability means that it has potential for a wide range of applications in vehicle safety systems, including lane-keep assist and pre-crash avoidance systems.
