STMicroelectronics and Mobileye announced on May 7, 2008 that the two companies have successfully sampled the second generation of their system-on-chip EyeQ2 for the vision-based driver assistance segment of the automotive market.
The first generation of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems, implemented on EyeQ1, is already in production by several car makers and offers functionality such as lane-departure warning (LDW), adaptive headlight control, traffic sign recognition, collision avoidance through radar/camera fusion, and forward collision warning..
The new generation takes the active safety concept to a new level. By increasing the processing power sixfold, the EyeQ2 adds new functionality, such as pedestrian detection while remaining entirely on one vision processor. The EyeQ2 takes input from two high-resolution image sensors and has video-output capabilities that include graphic overlay.
