Himax Launches Intelli-Sensing Module Enabling Context-Aware AI Vision Sensing on the Edge

Himax Technologies, Inc., a leading supplier and fabless manufacturer of display drivers and other semiconductor products, announced its ultralow power Intelli-Sensing Module featuring AI vision sensing in human detection, people counting, face detection and face recognition to enable a broad range of context-aware applications on the edge.   Himax Intelli-Sensing Module will debut at the tinyML Summit 2022 on March 29 – 30, 2022.

Himax Intelli-Sensing Module incorporates the Company’s proprietary WE-I Plus AI processor and HM01B0 AoS (Always-On Sensor) camera in ultralow power feature. The module is highly integrated and compact in size, measured at just 12.5 mm x 17.0 mm x 2.45 mm (length x width x height) along with 22-pin FPC connector pinouts, which can be easily attached to a device board by standard 24-pin ZIF FPC connector or by standard assembly process for an immediate system integration. For vison sensing needs in context-aware applications, the Intelli-Sensing module offers numerous pre-trained machine learning models in human detection, people counting, face detection and face recognition. Select inferences can be programmed to the Intelli-Sensing module to accommodate the customer specific use cases. These AI inferences will be executed locally on the device at the edge and subsequently deliver AI-enabled personalized metadata in byte-level size to the cloud system while avoiding sending massive raw images, thereby improving privacy, latency, power consumption and ultimately cultivating user experience.

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“Himax Intelli-Sensing module is a production ready solution that combines our ultralow power WE-I Plus AI processor, HM01B0 QVGA image sensor, and full-blown software stack with pre-trained machine learning models,” said Mark Chen, Vice President of Smart Sensing business at Himax. “Our Intelli-Sensing module will drastically reduce the significant entry barriers to new market entrants or system developers in deploying computer vision and machine learning AI capabilities to edge devices by eliminating the software, hardware and camera design and development efforts, as well as procurement and module manufacturing arrangements. Additional versatile AI vision software feature releases will continuously be made available to meet the emerging demand for the customer’s new AI use cases,” concluded Mr. Mark Chen.

Himax Intelli-Sensing module is primarily targeting human-machine interface (HMI), smart home, and smart retail applications. On March 29 – 30, Himax will participate in the tinyML Summit 2022 and showcase Intelli-Sensing module in related scenarios.

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