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Fastree 3D Imagers
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Fastree 3D Imagers is a fabless semiconductor company specializing in designing image sensors for spatial awareness in industrial and automotive applications. Leveraging over 20 years of academic research in CMOS image sensors and single-photon detectors, the company has developed a Hardware Development Kit (HDK) called Falcon. This kit facilitates the commissioning, demonstration, and development of Fastree 3D's LiDAR solutions, enabling partners to integrate their LiDAR technology into third-party systems. The Falcon HDK includes an ASIC sensor chip with single-photon sensitive detectors, Time to Digital Converters (TDCs), and digital pre-processing circuitry, allowing for the generation of a point cloud of distance measurements at each pixel. Fastree 3D's vision system focuses on eliminating false detections, minimizing latency, providing intelligence through different operating modes, and offering affordable technology based on flash LiDARs with direct time-of-flight technology.
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Digital image processing is the use of a digital computer to process s through an algorithm. As a subcategory or field of digital signal processing, digital image processing has many advantages over . It allows a much wider range of algorithms to be applied to the input data and can avoid problems such as the build-up of noise and distortion during processing. Since images are defined over two dimensions (perhaps more) digital image processing may be modeled in the form of multidimensional systems.
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A time-of-flight camera (ToF camera), also known as time-of-flight sensor (ToF sensor), is a range imaging camera system for measuring distances between the camera and the subject for each point of the image based on time-of-flight, the round trip time of an artificial light signal, as provided by a laser or an LED. Laser-based time-of-flight cameras are part of a broader class of scannerless LIDAR, in which the entire scene is captured with each laser pulse, as opposed to point-by-point with a laser beam such as in scanning LIDAR systems.
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