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FSM-IMX570 Devkit with Sony’s IMX570 iToF image sensor for the development of Time-of-Flight (ToF) cameras
into the mobility and transport sectors, where they are used for attention tracking and gesture recognition, and in retail automation, where they are used for people counting and seamless checkout systems.
The FRAMOS Devkit
FRAMOS’s FSM-IMX570 Devkit has been developed to address some of the difficulties vision system engineers face when developing camera systems with emerging technologies. These include the fact that creating a working camera requires integrating multiple components that aren’t always easy to interface to accessible platforms for processing and calibrating the raw data from the sensor. Since ToF is an emerging technology, there isn’t a lot of documentation available for some components, and what little there is often proprietary.
“Our development kit is the only calibrated solution on the market aimed at evaluating Sony’s iToF technology with IMX570 on NVIDIA Jetson family of embedded computers as an image processing hardware solution,” explained André Brela, Product Manager at FRAMOS. “The development kit provides a complete working solution, including illumination and calibrated, on-board depth processing. The development kit is also compatible to a family of
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versatile processing boards that are directly applicable in the field, so the engineers can develop and run their own software applications taking ready to use point cloud data from our API.” The development kit allows engineers to get a working device system up and running quickly. It allows them to visualise depth data as false colour video or a 3D point cloud stream. Besides the preprocessed and corrected depth data, the FSM-IMX570 Devkit also allows users access to the raw pixel data from the image sensor, for the purpose of development and benchmark with own processing pipelines.
Customisation and full support Brela explained that in addition to the development kit, FRAMOS provides customisation and support services for companies seeking to develop new products.
“While the development kit provides basic functionality out of the box, we understand that it won’t provide the exact fit, function or performance our individual clients are seeking when developing very effective and efficient new products, embedding 3D sensing for a particular application,” he said. “Because of this, the development kit is primarily a tool supporting the requirement engineering together with our customers to quickly come to the best solution with our comprehensive
list of custom solutions and production services for device builders.” FRAMOS can customise all elements of the development kit, for a perfect fit, delivering performance and producibility. Starting from the form, size and layout of the printed circuit board, over driver porting and tuning, to adaption of the whole optics and illumination system for the specifi c application and operating distances. The goal is to provide a complete solution from one hand, relieving customers from the duties and risks managing technology and supply chain quality when moving into volume production.
The FSM-IMX570 Devkit includes a FRAMOS sensor module board, with the Sony IMX570 sensor, a laser illumination board, a sensor adaptor board, to provide synchronisation with the laser illumination and on-board depth processing, and a FRAMOS processor board adapter, to provide connectivity to the NVIDIA Jetson family of embedded computers, including the Jetson Xavier and Jetson Orin platforms. Vision system engineers can learn
more about the FSM-IMX570 Devkit on the FRAMOS website.
CONTACT:
Framos
www.framos.com
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