Smart Cameras Keep Their Brains on One Chip
Toshi Hori, Pulnix America Inc.
Just as human eyes capture images and the brain recognizes and processes the information, a camera and computer system together can provide artificial intelligence. The latest developments have opened up the potential of significant progress towards applying the neural network principle in industrial applications. With the new zero instruction-set computer processor, no instruction or programming is required to implement the arithmetic and logical functions.
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