Capabilities

Advanced Vision Technology from Silicon to Systems

Centeye develops application-specific vision technology spanning custom mixed-signal silicon, miniature sensor assemblies, embedded vision systems, and supporting processing. The examples below illustrate the kinds of technology Centeye can develop, adapt, and integrate for customer requirements.

Architecture, packaging, interfaces, optics, and processing can be tailored to the application and the customer’s larger product or platform.

Vision Chips

Custom Vision Silicon

Centeye designs mixed-signal vision chips for specialized machine-perception applications. The focal plane can incorporate application-specific sensing, unconventional pixel arrangements, flexible or selective sampling, direct addressing, sparse readout concepts, and analog or mixed-signal processing where appropriate.

This makes it possible to change the sensing representation itself rather than accepting the data flow and processing requirements of a conventional full-frame camera architecture. Logarithmic and high-dynamic-range approaches can also support useful sensing across difficult illumination conditions.

Representative vision-chip architectures

Microscope image of fabricated Centeye vision silicon — Fabricated Centeye silicon under a metallurgical microscope.

Microscope close-up of fabricated Centeye vision silicon — Representative focal-plane and pixel-array structure.

Integrated-circuit layout from a Centeye vision-chip design — Supporting IC-layout evidence of in-house silicon design.

Sensor Assemblies

Vision Sensors and Sensor Assemblies

Centeye integrates custom sensing silicon with optics, electronics, embedded processors, interfaces, and packaging. Architectures can range from modular sensor heads to tightly integrated assemblies, including mono or stereo configurations where the application calls for them.

The design can be adapted around customer mechanical and electrical constraints, including low-SWaP requirements, high-dynamic-range operation, compact or remote sensor-head concepts, and application-specific interfaces.

Representative sensor assemblies

Integrated Systems

Embedded Vision Systems

Centeye can combine sensor heads, embedded processing, firmware, interfaces, task-specific perception, packaging, and system integration into an application-specific embedded vision system.

Examples of what Centeye can develop or adapt include sensing for miniature robotics, wearable and embedded products, constrained autonomous systems, distributed sensing, and unusual form-factor integrations. These are representative architectures, not a list of standard configurations or statements of availability.

Supporting Technology

Supporting Processing and Integration Technology

Centeye develops application-specific firmware, signal processing, computer vision, optical flow, stereo and ranging concepts, tracking, flexible-acuity methods, selective acquisition, simulation, and integration support around the sensing hardware—not simply as generic software applied to a conventional camera stream.

Adaptive sampling demonstration showing selective acquisition and tracking.

High-dynamic-range sensor output with the sun and shadowed scene visible — Representative high-dynamic-range sensor output under difficult illumination.

Vertically Integrated Design

One Engineering Stack

Cross-layer co-design allows a sensing limitation to change the focal-plane architecture, a bandwidth constraint to change the sampling strategy, or a processing constraint to be addressed at the sensor rather than by adding a larger downstream processor.

01Silicon

02Optics

03Sensor Hardware

04Embedded Processing

05System Integration

Examples, Not a Catalog

Representative Capabilities

These examples illustrate technology Centeye can develop, adapt, or integrate. Specific configurations depend on customer requirements, application constraints, and integration needs.

Custom mixed-signal focal-plane design

Sub-gram and miniature sensing

High-dynamic-range vision

Adaptive and selective acquisition

Embedded optical flow and tracking

Application-specific sensor packaging

Sensor, processor, and algorithm co-design

Working With Centeye

From technology insertion to custom development.

Integrate

Incorporate existing Centeye chips, sensors, assemblies, or supporting technology.

Adapt

Modify sensing hardware, optics, electronics, firmware, packaging, or interfaces.

Develop

Develop application-specific vision chips, sensor assemblies, or embedded vision systems.

Transition & Supply

Support productization, manufacturing transition, licensing, and ongoing supply.

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