Imagination Technologies and Embedded Vision

By _Inside DSP

February 6, 2014

Investment in a particular technology segment, not only by small startups but also by established suppliers, tends to be a dependable indication that the application has large business potential and lengthy staying power. Consider embedded vision, the use of computer vision techniques to extract meaning from visual inputs in embedded systems, mobile devices, PCs and the cloud. BDTI, accurately predicting that embedded vision would rapidly become an important market, founded the Embedded Vision Alliance in May 2011.

Since then, embedded vision processor announcements have come fast and furious, whether integrated within SoCs sold by the same companies (such as Analog Devices and Texas Instruments), available for licensing and provided by core suppliers (i.e., Apical, CEVA, and Tensilica) or both delivered in SoC form for certain markets and licensed to others, as in the case of companies like CogniVue. Imagination Technologies, a recent addition to the Embedded Vision Alliance member roster, becomes the latest supplier with its Raptor product line of image processing cores, which are also capable of implementing vision processing functions both standalone and in heterogeneous partnership with CPU and GPU cores.

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