EETimes - Sony, Prophesee Open 'Pandora's Box' in AI Sensing -

Prophesee, a Paris-based startup that has pioneered neuromorphic vision systems, presented this week at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) in San Francisco a new, stacked event-based vision sensor jointly developed with Sony Corp. Designed by Prophesee's event-driven technology, the new sensor was built on technologies engineered by Sony for advanced stacked CMOS image sensors. For event-driven systems, the new sensor offers the industry's smallest pixel size and the industry's highest high-dynamic range (HDR) performance, Prophesee claimed. The brain-inspired sensor would allow industrial machines, robots and autonomous vehicles to see and sense the environment better. The partnership could herald a new era in which AI -- both AI sensing and AI processing -- could take place very close to the sensor, if not yet on the sensor itself, where data is generated. Sony is the world's leading CMOS image sensor company.