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News Release from: STMicroelectronics | Subject: EyeQ2
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 08 May 2008
Companies co-operate on driver
assistance
Mobileye's lane-detection technologies can reduce accidents and fatalities for multitasking motorists who also log long hours.
STMicroelectronics and Mobileye have sampled the second generation of their system-on-chip EyeQ2 for the vision-based driver assistance segment of the automotive market The implementation of this type of technology is fundamental to increasing safety on ever more congested roads
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 8 Nov 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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It has been shown that if drivers reacted half a second earlier, they would avoid approximately half of all accidents.
In Europe, one third of accidents are due to lane changing or leaving the road and overall two thirds are due to lack of attention.
The first generation of advanced driver assistance systems implemented on EyeQ1 are already in production at several car makers and offer functionality such as lane-departure warning (LDW), adaptive headlight control, traffic-sign recognition, collision avoidance through radar/camera fusion and forward collision warning that can drastically reduce the number of accidents.
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The LDW is akin to a 'virtual rumble strip' that alerts drivers when they cross lane markings, a common factor in many head-on collisions and other serious accidents.
"By using an audible warning upon an unintentional deviation from the driving lane, these lane-departure warning systems create an intelligent rumble strip imitation that alerts the driver even when there are no physical strips on the shoulder of the road", explained Amnon Shashua, PhD, Chairman of Mobileye and the Sachs professor of computer science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel.
As a significant portion of run-off-road crashes are attributed to driving while drowsy, Mobileye's lane-detection technologies can reduce accidents and fatalities for multitasking motorists who also log long hours.
The new generation ADAS being sampled now takes this active safety concept to a new level.
By increasing the processing power six fold, the EyeQ2 provides pedestrian detection and well as lane-departure warning (LDW), adaptive headlight control, traffic sign recognition, collision avoidance and forward collision warning on one vision processor.
The EyeQ2 takes input from two high-resolution image sensors and has video-output capabilities that include graphic overlay.
Pedestrians are the most vulnerable road users and in the EU alone, it is estimated that there are 9000 fatalities and 200,000 injuries from road accidents involving cars colliding with pedestrians or cyclists.
Pedestrian detection is in development with a major European OEM and is slated for production on EyeQ2 bundled together with additional features including LDW and collision-mitigation functions.
"The detection capabilities of the EyeQ2, even in difficult environmental conditions, allow for both notification and for crash mitigation, increasing safety for road users dramatically", said Marco Monti, Vice President of STMicroelectronics' Automotive Product Group.
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