Tyzx and IMA to develop 3-D vision systems for driver assistance

SEPTEMBER 19--Tyzx (Menlo Park, CA, USA; www.tyzx.com) announced that video-recording-company I.M.A. (Rottbach, Germany) is using its 3-D vision technology to develop a validation system for driver-assistance components currently under test by automaker BMW Group. Tyzx, building on more than 15 years of research at Harvard, Interval Research, MIT, and Stanford, has developed a platform of hardware, software, and services for building affordable products that see and interact with the world in three dimensions.

I.M.A. specializes in digital video recording and playback systems for medical, automotive, and other industries. The company is working cooperatively with the BMW Group to adapt its DART video technology for real-time 3-D environment data recording, which detects, for example, lane markers, vehicle position, traffic signs, and weather conditions in real time and records relevant data to validate driver assistance components.

I.M.A. has created a driver-assistance validation kit using its DART technology integrated with Tyzx stereo vision real-time image processing. This is being used by the BMW Group to validate and further improve the current product.

"Automotive application of this technology promises to be one of the first very high-volume applications of stereo vision technology in the marketplace," said Ron Buck, CEO of Tyzx. "If you can make it work well in an automobile, then you can make it work well in a dozen other environments without a great deal of difficulty."

I.M.A., founded in 1991, is providing hard- and software for digital real-time video and data recording. The DART family supports a wide range of applications from medical documentation to industrial quality assurance.