BrainTech and UTMC to Develop Vision Recognition Board

BrainTech Inc., based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and UTMC Microelectronic Systems Inc., a business unit of Hamilton Standard, have agreed to develop and manufacture a visual recognition accelerator board for use in the vision systems industry.

Called Impac, the board uses BrainTech's adaptive fuzzy chip based on a set of pattern-matching algorithms and UTMC's memory chip designed for rapid association matching. The board is designed to speed up the recognition of visual patterns in machine vision systems used in surveillance, military target identification and quality inspection.