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Sony to Release Two Types of Stacked Event-Based Vision Sensors

Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation announced the upcoming release of two types of stacked event-based vision sensors. These sensors designed for industrial equipment are capable of detecting only subject changes, and achieve the industry's smallest pixel size of 4.86μm.

Prophesee

Prophesee, developers of event-based vision systems and associated software, have recently launched a cheaper, more compact 4th generation of its sensors via a collaboration with strategic partner Sony. IDTechEx caught up with CEO Luca Verre to find out more.

Prophesee

Prophesee has developed hardware and associated software for event-based vision sensors that is based on how the human eye records and interprets visual inputs. The sensors facilitate machine vision by recording changes in the scene rather than recording the entire scene at regular intervals. Advantages include better low light response (<1 lux) and dynamic range (>143dB), reduced data generation (10-1000x less than conventional approaches) leading to lower transfer/processing requirements, and higher temporal resolution (microsecond time resolution, i.e. >10k images per second time resolution equivalent)