Fujitsu Semiconductor has been developing and delivering visualization solutions for vehicles that take advantage of the high speed operation and high quality graphics capability of the company's high-performance SoCs for vehicles, such as integrated Human Machine Interface (HMI) systems that consolidate and provide centralized control over multiple displays, including cluster (dashboard) displays, central console displays, and heads-up displays, and the 360° Wraparound View System, which synthesizes 360° images from multiple vehicle-mounted cameras to enable drivers to check their entire surroundings in 3D from any angle.

The Kids and Transportation Safety Act in the US will require that all passenger cars made from May 2018 on include rearview cameras. Because of this and other reasons, demand for functionality that can provide drivers with information on their vehicles' surroundings is expected to significantly increase.

Approaching-object detection functionality that will automatically detect nearby cars and people, and alert the driver, is an extremely effective method for lightening the driver's cognitive load, and there has been a need for products that easily implement this functionality without sacrificing performance.

Fujitsu Semiconductor regards approaching-object detection functionality as an important part of its visualization solutions for vehicles, and developed the Approaching Object Detection Library with that in mind. The product uses the company's proprietary technology for reducing detection errors to dramatically cut down on false positives and false negatives.

In addition, the functionality is implemented to run as software, with parallelized data processing and other optimizations. Use of this product enables high-performance and flexible approaching-object detection systems to be built without dedicated hardware such as image processing LSI devices.

The Approaching Object Detection Library will be available in an evaluation version in May this year, when it will be shipped with an evaluation board that includes the company's graphics SoC, MB86R24, for testing functionality.