DENSO and FotoNation to Collaborate on Image Recognition Technology
2017年10月18日 - 12:24PM
JCN Newswire (英)
DENSO Corporation, one of the world's largest automotive
technology, systems and components suppliers, and Xperi Corporation
(NASDAQ: XPERI), a Silicon Valley-based technology company,
announced that DENSO will start joint technology development of
cabin sensing with FotoNation, an Xperi group company specializing
in image recognition technologies. The partnership will help DENSO
significantly improve the performance of its Driver Status Monitor,
an active safety product currently used in commercial vehicles.
Improvements of such products also will accelerate the development
of next-generation products to be used in passenger vehicles,
including a system to help drivers return to driving mode during
Level 3 of autonomous drive.
This collaboration will combine DENSO's accumulated experience in
improving the robustness of cabin sensing innovations and
FotoNation's sophisticated facial image recognition and neural
network technologies. By combining technologies of the two
companies, DENSO will be able to achieve the world's most
sophisticated driver status detection, which will not be affected
by differences between individual faces, or by sunglasses, masks,
and other facial coverings, in the vehicle cabin where
environmental light changes dramatically.
Since 2014, DENSO has provided a Driver Status Monitor for heavy
trucks and large sightseeing buses. This advanced safety product
uses a cabin camera to capture images of the driver and computer
vision technology to detect the driver's face angle to determine
the level of drowsiness. Using its proprietary algorithm to
carefully analyze the driver's eye blinking, DENSO's driver status
monitor can detect driver drowsiness and alert the driver when it
judges the driver is distracted or falling asleep at the wheel, to
help prevent traffic accidents.
With its superior technologies, FotoNation has led computer imaging
solutions integration for more than 10 years. FotoNation has
maintained market leadership in the mobile image recognition
segment and its technologies are installed in various devices such
as mobile phones, digital cameras, drones and security cameras,
with approximately 25 percent of world's smartphones using its
image recognition technology.
"Understanding the status of the driver and engaging them at the
right time is an important component for enabling the future of
autonomous driving," said Yukihiro Kato, senior executive director,
Information & Safety Systems Business Group of DENSO. "I
believe this collaboration with Xperi will help accelerate our
innovative ADAS product development by bringing together the unique
expertise of both our companies."
"We are excited to partner with DENSO to innovate in such a dynamic
field," said Jon Kirchner, CEO of Xperi Corporation. "This
partnership will play a significant role in paving the way to the
ultimate goal of safer roadways through use of our imaging and
facial analytics technologies and DENSO's vast experience in the
space."
Using FotoNation's facial image recognition and neural networks
technologies, detection accuracy will be increased remarkably by
detecting much more features instead of using the conventional
detection method based on the relative positions of the eyes, nose,
mouth, and other facial regions. Moreover, DENSO will develop new
functions, such as those to detect the driver's gaze direction and
facial expressions more accurately, to understand the state of mind
of the driver in order to help create more comfortable
vehicles.
DENSO will exhibit a prototype next-generation driver status
monitor at the Tokyo Motor Show from October 27 to November 5,
2017.
About Xperi Corporation
Xperi Corporation (Nasdaq: XPER) and its brands, DTS, FotoNation,
HD Radio, Invensas and Tessera, are dedicated to creating
innovative technology solutions that enable extraordinary
experiences for people around the world. Xperi's solutions are
licensed by hundreds of leading global partners and have shipped in
billions of products in areas including premium audio, broadcast,
automotive, computational imaging, computer vision, mobile
computing and communications, memory, data storage, and 3D
semiconductor interconnect and packaging. For more information,
please call 408-321-6000 or visit www.xperi.com.
About Denso
DENSO Corporation, headquartered in Kariya, Aichi prefecture,
Japan, is a leading global automotive supplier of advanced
technology, systems and components in the areas of thermal,
powertrain control, electronics and information and safety. Its
customers include all the world's major carmakers. Worldwide, the
company has more than 200 subsidiaries and affiliates in 38
countries and regions and employs nearly 140,000 people.
Consolidated global sales for the fiscal year ending March 31,
2014, totaled US$39.8 billion. Last fiscal year, DENSO spent 9
percent of its global consolidated sales on research and
development. DENSO common stock is traded on the Tokyo and Nagoya
stock exchanges. For more information, go to www.globaldenso.com,
or visit our media website at www.densomediacenter.com.
Source: Denso
Contact:
Sadayoshi Yokoyama, Toshiko Watanabe
DENSO CORPORATION
Phone: 81-566-25-5594
Fax: 81-566-25-4509
sadayoshi_yokoyama@denso.co.jp
toshiko_watanabe@denso.co.jp
Copyright 2017 JCN Newswire . All rights reserved.