Melexis showcases dual-head ToF camera at AutoSens Brussels

GUANLIYUAN：   FABUSHIJIAN：2017-10-30

At the third edition of AutoSens, aconference about ADAS and autonomous

vehicle perception technolog🐠y that aims tobring together

technic꧂al experts at automotive OE🅷Ms and Tier-1 suppliers,Melexis willshowcase the dual-head Time-of-Flight (ToF) camera. The camera is based on therecently

released EVK75123, a ready-to-use ToF camera, and built around two QVGA ToFsenso🧔rs (MLX7502🍰3) and one companion chip controller (MLX75123), enabling awide field of view (45 x 120 deg2 at 640 x 240 pixels or two independent QVGAdetection zones).

With☂ third party software so💛lutionrunning directly on Melexis'sensor evaluation kits,

designers will be able to test the ToFtechnology directly, resulting in design-cycle-time redu💮ction and thepossibility to work on the full-blown application right from the beginning. “Wechoose to maintain our ToFarchitecture open to third party solution providers and in order to offer afull product portfolio to customers, we ꦕkeep on working on enhanc🥂ed QVGAsensors and high resolution VGA,” explains GualtieroBagnuoli, Marketing Manager Optical Sensors for Melexis.

“The compatibility between DepthSense?software libraries and Melexis'sevaluation kit is a big step fo⛎rward for thཧe automotive industry,” states SoftKinetic Sr.🍌Director Sales and Business Development Johannes Peeters. For instance, DepthSense? CARlibenables robust and accurate hand and pose tracking to naturally control theinfotainment system and reduce driver distraction. “OEMs and Tier-1’s now haveaccess to an all-encompassing - from hardware to software -, and e🧸asy toimplement solution to integrate state-of-the-art infotainment gesture controlinto production vehicles.” At IAA, SoftKinetic will also showcase, for the very fi✤rsttime, t🎶heir DepthSense?in-cabin monitoring library (ICMlib),which enables the detection of human on the seat and tracks hand💝s and headposition and orientation.