Tessera Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq:TSRA) and Silicon Image, Inc. (Nasdaq:SIMG) announced today that Silicon Image will demonstrate Tessera’s FotoNation® FaceTracker solution in Silicon Image’s camerIC-18 megapixel (MP) image signal processor (ISP) at the 2010 GSMA Mobile World Congress, Barcelona (Feb. 15-18). The camerIC-18 ISP IP core integrates the Lightweight Hardware Face Detector (LHFD) version of the FotoNation FaceTracker solution, which provides fast, high-performance face detection and tracking capabilities for camera-enabled devices. The camerIC-18 ISP will be on display at Silicon Image’s booth located in Hall 2, #2B 109.
Tessera’s FotoNation FaceTracker solution enables camera devices to select settings automatically to help capture the perfect picture. The technology uses innovative face-oriented technology to detect up to 10 faces in the camera viewfinder in as little as 0.1 seconds. It enables a camera to automatically adjust focus, color and exposure settings, helping to optimize portraits even when subjects are backlit, off-center or over / under exposed. The LHFD version of the FotoNation FaceTracker solution is a mixed hardware / software implementation that increases performance while using fewer computing resources.
“Tessera’s FotoNation FaceTracker solution adds valuable new end user capability to our market-leading camerIC ISP family of IP cores,” said Eric Almgren, vice president of Business Development and Intellectual Property Licensing, Silicon Image. “In addition, our camerIC-18 IP cores provide our customers with key features such as bad pixel detection and correction, de-noising and wide dynamic range processing that enhance the ISP capabilities.”
“We are very happy to be working with Silicon Image and to help showcase the high-performance advanced image process capabilities for their latest camerIC IP cores,” said Mike Bereziuk, executive vice president, Imaging & Optics, Tessera. “Our embedded imaging technologies continue to transform the way manufacturers deploy camera modules and to add features to mobile phones that enhance the user experience and results.”
Source: http://www.tessera.com/