Kyocera Develops World's First* Automotive Night Vision System with White and Near-Infrared Light Diodes Integrated into a Single GaN Laser Device - businesswire.com

KYOTO, Japan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Kyocera Corporation (President: Hideo Tanimoto) announced contiguous that it has developed an Automotive Night Vision System that tin accurately place collision-risk objects successful low-visibility driving conditions, specified arsenic astatine night, oregon successful rain, snow, fog, oregon smoke. The strategy is expected to trim postulation accidents and beforehand safer driving.

Kyocera’s Automotive Night Vision features the archetypal headlight successful the satellite that tin emit some achromatic (RGB) and near-infrared (NIR) airy connected the aforesaid optical axis; this allows higher accuracy entity designation than alternate technologies. The strategy integrates RGB-NIR sensors and a unsocial “Image-Fusion AI Recognition Technology” developed by Kyocera for precocious show entity recognition. In addition, Kyocera has developed different generative AI diagnostic to make grooming information for much cost-efficient learning and merchandise development.

*For headlights utilizing achromatic and near-infrared airy successful a azygous SMD instrumentality (Kyocera research, September 2022)

Video: Introducing Kyocera’s New Automotive Night Vision System
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3Am3wZJXpE

Development Background

To trim postulation accidents and beforehand autonomous driving, automakers volition necessitate much precocious hazard-detection systems. The planetary marketplace for Automotive Night Vision Systems was estimated astatine astir $2.17 billion⁺ successful 2020. Furthermore, the marketplace is expected to turn astatine a compounded yearly complaint of much than 16.5%⁺ from 2020 to 2027. Kyocera’s caller nighttime imaginativeness strategy volition assistance forestall postulation accidents by notifying drivers of hazards successful adverse driving environments, a payment made imaginable lone done the innovative integration of disposable and near-infrared images utilizing proprietary fusion designation AI technology.

+Source: Reportocean, “Global Automotive Night Vision System Market by Technology Type” Nov. 3^rd, 2021

System Features and Benefits

[1] Laser headlight integrates achromatic and near-infrared airy connected the aforesaid optical axis
Kyocera’s strategy integrates some achromatic and near-infrared airy from a laser headlight connected a azygous optical axis. This eliminates representation parallax and greatly enhances representation recognition. The integrated headlight besides incorporates an highly bright, high-efficiency, miniaturized GaN laser developed by KYOCERA SLD Laser, Inc. Furthermore, the strategy has automatic “beam shaping” functionality for the RGB and NIR airy that prevents glare for oncoming drivers by automatically shifting disposable airy into a low-beam signifier erstwhile necessary, portion the NIR airy tin stay successful high-beam mode.

[2] More close entity designation utilizing Kyocera's proprietary fusion designation AI technology
Kyocera’s vehicle-mounted RGB-NIR sensor uses archetypal fusion designation AI technology^** developed by Kyocera’s Advanced Technology Laboratories. Instead of simply combining the representation information from the 2 sources, Kyocera’s strategy uses qualitative AI to comparison and measure some RGB and NIR images, differentiating betwixt pedestrians and vehicles with precocious accuracy adjacent successful debased visibility conditions.

** Received the Symposium and Sensing via Image Information (SSII) Distinguished Academic Award.

[3] AI importantly reduces improvement costs portion improving designation performance
Conventional methods necessitate postulation of immense amounts of NIR grooming data, a time-consuming and costly process. Conversely, Kyocera’s AI exertion generates grooming information automatically. As a result, this attack tin importantly trim grooming costs portion maintaining precocious accuracy successful designation performance.

Future Developments

Kyocera volition proceed R&D for this system, aiming for commercialization aft 2027. We volition besides lend to making proscription safer and much unafraid done traffic-monitoring infrastructure technologies, specified arsenic astute road-side units (RSUs) and different equipment, portion adapting our technologies to different divers applications ranging from nighttime information to transportation systems.