KYOCERA

Electronics giant announced a first-of-its-kind integrated night vision system unique to assist drivers and autopilots

Kyocera announced the development of a unique integrated night vision system to assist drivers and autopilots. White and infrared lasers are represented by a single source - a gallium nitride (GaN) diode, in which the lasers are located on the same optical axis, which minimizes distortion. The development relies on laser diodes from the fledgling SLD Laser, which was acquired by Kyocera in 2021.

Car headlights based on SLD Laser diodes can be simultaneously a point source of white and infrared light. The vehicle's built-in RGB-Ir sensor also acquires visible and near-infrared images simultaneously. The unique development of SLD Laser does not provide a distorted image as both light sources are located on the same diode - there is no source separation and there are no distortions such as parallax.

Furthermore, Kyocera's trainable traffic evaluation algorithm does not paste the two images into one for further analysis, but examines each one separately and compares with each other, which improves the accuracy of road object recognition and improves the assessment of the degree of its danger to the driver. Another algorithm collects data for accelerated AI training to assess traffic conditions, allowing the system to train faster and on less productive equipment. Of the useful ones, for example, you can highlight the automatic switch to low beam when a car approaches, keeping the headlight working in infrared mode.

Kyocera expects to commercialize the venture after 2027. The system will be useful to both drivers and autopilots of cars, including automated solutions for goods delivery.

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