http://chipsight.com The simplest way to make vision. Tue, 15 May 2012 22:12:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://chipsight.com/aptina_arrow_chipsight_hubbell/ http://chipsight.com/aptina_arrow_chipsight_hubbell/#comments Thu, 10 May 2012 02:00:24 +0000 Craig Sullender http://chipsight.com/?p=850 Use case: Ignore security guard flashlight. Use case: Maintain light level even if reflective surfaces are covered with a black sheet. ]]> http://chipsight.com/aptina_arrow_chipsight_hubbell/feed/ 0 http://chipsight.com/color-space-for-embedded-vision-part-2/ http://chipsight.com/color-space-for-embedded-vision-part-2/#comments Thu, 23 Jun 2011 22:03:09 +0000 Craig Sullender http://chipsight.com/?p=681 But as for embedded vision, it will succeed when it delivers useful vision functions at a cost appropriate to the application.]]> http://chipsight.com/color-space-for-embedded-vision-part-2/feed/ 6 http://chipsight.com/consumer-vision-market-is-more-real/ http://chipsight.com/consumer-vision-market-is-more-real/#comments Fri, 03 Jun 2011 14:42:01 +0000 Craig Sullender http://chipsight.com/?p=558 Not breakthrough in the sense of "more people will have to buy our big hot chip." ]]> http://chipsight.com/consumer-vision-market-is-more-real/feed/ 1 http://chipsight.com/color-space-for-embedded-vision/ http://chipsight.com/color-space-for-embedded-vision/#comments Mon, 13 Jun 2011 16:05:23 +0000 Craig Sullender http://chipsight.com/?p=605 The quality of appearance each component describes--and how well it describes that quality--can determine the complexity, cost, and performance of our embedded vision system. Which color space is best for embedded vision?]]> http://chipsight.com/color-space-for-embedded-vision/feed/ 3 http://chipsight.com/easy-eye-silabs-camera/ http://chipsight.com/easy-eye-silabs-camera/#comments Tue, 24 May 2011 15:39:33 +0000 Craig Sullender http://chipsight.com/?p=513 The C8051F360 syncs to video from a digital camera, reads pixel values, makes decisions about objects in the scene, communicates by serial port, and drives displays or servos by GPIO.]]> http://chipsight.com/easy-eye-silabs-camera/feed/ 22 http://chipsight.com/semi-conscious-consumer-vision/ http://chipsight.com/semi-conscious-consumer-vision/#comments Fri, 20 May 2011 03:47:04 +0000 Craig Sullender http://chipsight.com/?p=479 Machine vision people ask me "what do you want, object recognition with a PIC?" Yes. Why not?]]> http://chipsight.com/semi-conscious-consumer-vision/feed/ 0 http://chipsight.com/raw-pixel-diet/ http://chipsight.com/raw-pixel-diet/#comments Mon, 16 May 2011 22:53:30 +0000 Craig Sullender http://chipsight.com/?p=422 Can we use pixel data straight from the camera's image sensor? Or does the application need pixel data processed by an image sensor pipeline (ISP) with color transformations and denoising?]]> http://chipsight.com/raw-pixel-diet/feed/ 2 http://chipsight.com/semi-conscious-pixels-surveillance/ http://chipsight.com/semi-conscious-pixels-surveillance/#comments Fri, 13 May 2011 00:03:56 +0000 Craig Sullender http://chipsight.com/?p=396 Come winter we enjoy the heat of FPGAs stuffed with cranky algorithms grinding through pixels to make .... the same pixels come out the other end.]]> http://chipsight.com/semi-conscious-pixels-surveillance/feed/ 2 http://chipsight.com/microchip-let-my-robot-see/ http://chipsight.com/microchip-let-my-robot-see/#comments Mon, 09 May 2011 19:08:10 +0000 Craig Sullender http://chipsight.com/?p=293 A Microchip PIC directly sampling a video signal. 8 pins well used. ]]> http://chipsight.com/microchip-let-my-robot-see/feed/ 0 http://chipsight.com/gpu-just-mashing-it/ http://chipsight.com/gpu-just-mashing-it/#comments Thu, 05 May 2011 19:51:08 +0000 Craig Sullender http://chipsight.com/?p=283 General purpose processors that do everything slowly vs. specialized functions that do some things quickly. ]]> http://chipsight.com/gpu-just-mashing-it/feed/ 3