How Embedded Vision Changes Consumer Electronics

By Embedded Advisor | Wednesday, February 12, 2020

Embedded vision solutions seem economical and reliable for the consumer electronics industry with significant results.

FREMONT, CA: Today, there is a need for increased processing power, and video and image cognition capabilities in consumer electronics devices. Embedded vision holds the potential to meet all these needs. As embedded vision technology innovates, it will transform the way people interact with their electronic devices.

Embedded vision can serve as the basis for automation and collaboration with robots deployed for electronic device manufacturing processes. In electronics manufacturing, an embedded vision-enabled process can provide a visual inspection of materials, parts, and labels from given materials before assembly. This ensures the proper installation of any given part or material, detection of any potential material defects pre-production. Combined with robotics solutions, these embedded vision ability can initiate the assembly process or remove parts from a process in the event of an issue. This ensures efficient and quality products.

Consumer electronics inspection is a demanding application for embedded vision systems. They create productivity gains in inspection applications in several ways. Embedded vision technology boosts throughput in consumer electronics production with rapid inspection times. High frame rate cameras with next-level processing capabilities considerably reduce the inspection time and increase production.

Embedded vision technology also reduces the need for physical controls and allows consumer electronics to be seamlessly integrated. Face recognition, gesture recognition, and Augmented Reality are some of the early applications that embedded vision has enabled in consumer electronics devices. These innovations have begun to alter how people interact with their devices and how they interact with the world around them. While 3D vision and deep learning currently exist, they are not fully matured yet. As their maturation happens with the help of embedded vision, applications such as object detection, classification, and semantic segmentation become possible, which have several uses in consumer electronics.

The possibilities that embedded vision technology has for the consumer electronics industry are endless. For device manufacturers and suppliers, it changes the way electronics devices are manufactured and the way they work.