there is also enough room in the ****pit for a fully lie-flat seat, where—future regulation permitting—one pilot would be able to rest while the other is flying
https://www.aviationtoday.com/2021/05/10/new-dassault-falcon-10x-flight-deck-includes-eight-touchscreen-displays/
Normally JC finds the patents, but I was looking into Pat's friend at Dassault, Valentin. And he has some very recent and they have some very relevant patent applications to do with Crew rest etc
https://patents.justia.com/inventor/fran-ois-salmon-legagneur
Looks like there is a Cipia "mirror" fire
The long and the short of it - all smoke, no mirror, so far.
Low power consumption ✅
But they don't have Occula, so let's reduce processing optimisation options.
The news story is they have wide angle lens and 5M pixel camera so have the resolution for DMS and OMS processed on Ambarella SoC.
OK they could package that in a tight space, say in a box behind the mirror (not in the mirror) and still get the same coverage in the car.
Lenses, LEDs & drivers.
These like Ambarella's chips are available. The experience to put them all together not so much.
Putting everything in the mirror. Well Magna won't help.
I have already lit a fire under Gentex's offering using their Guardian Optical Technology. Would they be smart enough to write that off as a trial run?
They still don't have the experience for good enough camera, lens and LED placement and they don't have access to SEE or Magna's IP and they have patents to navigate around. That may take 18—24+ months to catch up, but we have seen how many patents Magna have applied for the landscape keeps changing. They will keep finding themselves in a minefield and having to scrap approaches incase they blow up.
I expect that with Cipia's limited resources they couldn't do this alone.
I guess Bosch or Conti will take them under their wing. Package up as next gen Aftermarket product. Then chase down undecided OEMs and Truck makers with a target of 2026
But the underlying DMS won't be as good due to limited data for training. They will always be a few steps behind and Guardian 3 is about to drop. FS-10 is old tech (broadly like G2) and their new hope is still years away
Seize,
Please don't post whenever Collins buys a coffee or wins on a scratch card.
Winning an MRO (spare parts) contract for an airline is not remotely related to SEE
It is not just the AI simation, you also need Andy Surkis in a suit for the initial motion capture
Phil,
Based on the final section of the Whitepaper, Richard is open to offers for the service to validate DMS / OMS products of any company or for bodies such as NCAP.
It looks like since SEE IP is built into the models, they will not be available for training competitor products.
"Contact
Devant is presently seeking expressions of interest in a synthetic NCAP validation service.
Contact Richard Bremer, CEO Devant, richard@dev...."
Seize, you can't find it because, the first rule of fight club...
Thanks JC.
Nice to see Honda matching eye gaze to objects seen by Lidar to check the driver is paying attention
Can you spot some Seeing Machines shaped holes in this jigsaw?
https://www.airbus.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2023-01-airbus-tests-new-technologies-to-enhance-pilot-assistance
Https://www.indeed.com/m/viewjob?jk=e7aa0bf960c1e655&from=serp&rx_p=KLARVRDQ7D
Hybrid
Collins Aerospace is currently searching for an Electrical Engineering Manager to join our Vision and Connectivity Systems Team in Burnsville, MN.
A comprehensive relocation package is available for qualified candidates.
This position is for a highly motivated manager to lead a growing team of Electrical and FPGA Engineers whose charter is to engage in product development and full-life cycle electrical/FPGA design support for legacy and new market entry products in areas of passive and active video solutions, pilot support systems and prognostics and health monitoring solutions.
Before anyone gets excited.
the high-performance eye tracking system in Apple Vision Pro uses high-speed cameras and a ring of LEDs that project invisible light patterns onto the user’s eyes for responsive, intuitive input.
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/06/introducing-apple-vision-pro/
Not us.
OCCULA is optimised to find the face and eyes then expects to have the eyes as a tiny fraction of the image.
With headset, the eye is the image and viewed far off axis. Plus they would need all of the body and hand tracking but from the wrong vantage point
LIGHTBULB MOMENT!
It turns out that Smart Eye’s wins were linked to using light sources.
Does that mean that Smart Eye provide the DMS for my fridge too.
I somehow doubt that identifying the provider of the LED identifies the DMS. They are specified by the Tier 1 not by the SEYE contract
OK this one is for silver suit wearing drivers of flying cars.
We already have rear camera, we have birds eye views stitched together from multiple cameras. JLR and others even have "transparent" cars so on a screen you can steer around individual rocks or pot holes.
Now the F-35 (an aircraft) is paired a helmet that let's you look through the aircraft in any direction.
This patent expects us to do that wearing special glasses or a headset, just so we can park the car
Https://www.linkedin.com/posts/omnivision_omnivision-demo-at-autosens-detroit-pt-1-activity-7062157187246145536-fVUp
That is the Seeing Machines neural network in the chip
Now this looks familiar. Veoneer using Radar with SEE?
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7061970933430857728?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_android
Impressive patent, if only for the stamina of the patent lawyer.
The list of claims blew me away, they categorise every option in terms of Flops or power consumption, so instead of the usual ten or twenty claims, this Pat. App. went for an incredible 364 separate claims! For give me for not summarising, but the jist is it is a mirror with but in DMS /OMS
All that fuss just to greet you buy name or to offer to autonomously drive you home.
Don't worry their secret sauce was judging the z length of a part of your body, so other cars can still say Hi or offer to decapitate you when it doesn't see a crossing Semi
I hang up my hat.
You know that monitoring the machine thinking is far more tiring than thinking for yourself.
On Tobii's first win
Tobii does not believe it is possible to, with a sufficiently high degree of certainty, provide guidance on the revenue or potential future opportunities
with manufacturers.
Such confidence!
It is worth reading the full Disclaimer. They look like they are being screwed. They have given everything up to get their first contract. Conti or Bosch?
Makes me think of the price of a box of pencils.
He speaks the truth
https://www.independentinvestmenttrust.co.uk/media/4515/20221109115954_combination-of-assets-with-the-monks-investment-trust-plc-monks.pdf