Vision Quest
By: By John H. Day, contributing editor
Image Sensors with high dynamic range, together with powerful processors and sophisticated algorithms, are enabling a new generation of vision-based systems...
The growing opportunity for advanced driver assistance systems
By: by Binu RC and Srinivasan R HCL Technologies
It's been a late night at work, you've slept six hours in three days, and you're finally getting in your car to go home. You're speeding down the dark,...
Peripheral vision
By: by John H. Day, contributing editor
Vision-sensing applications are surfacing in luxury vehicles but the market is fragmented, with design engineers divided on what technology works best. Chipmakers, meanwhile, are readying new devices with powerful image-processing capabilities....
Under the hood of the Infiniti M
By: by Randy Frank Contributing Editor
Among its technology goodies, the 2007 Infiniti M has a lane departure warning system, and a rear-view monitoring system that was initially offered on 2006 models....
Sensing in the Automotive Environment
By: by Mike Wills Optek
Electronic systems designers are always faced with the challenges of improving system resolution and signal quality. As a result, design flexibility is a key component of any sensing technology for today's vehicle environments....
Satisfying the Growing Demand for Data Storage
By: by Mike Alwais Ramtron International
Uses for non-volatile memory can be divided into three categories: program or firmware storage, configuration storage and data storage. The most relevant distinction between these is how the information changes....
Blind Spots and Backing Up: Choosing the Right Display is Critical
By: by Dale Maunu Optrex America Inc.
With the amount of information presented to the driver in modern cars, the display has become an important part of the dashboard. Hence, the designer must take into consideration a wide range of issues when developing displays for automotive use. In this article, the author examines concerns when using such displays with a rear-view camera system for blind spots and backing up....
Vision Sensing Enables Safer Vehicles
By: by Randy Frank, contributing editor
Vision sensing is right at the top of the list of enabling technologies that will make future vehicles safer. Proponents envision six or more cameras looking at the road ahead, adjacent vehicles and lanes, and obstacles behind the vehicles, as well as passengers and the driver. While these cameras and vision sensors have appeared on a few high-end vehicles today, this article uncovers engineering efforts under way to bring this capability to mainstream automobiles and provide all the functionality that automakers are considering for vision-enabled safer vehicles....
