SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 28, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Synaptics® Incorporated (Nasdaq: SYNA) at this time introduced the acquisition of Emza Visual Sense Ltd., the chief in the rising and fast-growing marketplace for ultra-low-power AI visible sensing options. The addition extends Synaptics’ management place in Edge AI and permits it to right away serve the PC market with a confirmed answer for human presence detection (HPD) functions, supporting look-away detect and on-looker detect options, whereas uniquely addressing system person safety and privateness issues.
“We’re very enthusiastic about integrating and scaling the Emza group’s experience and know-how throughout our business,” said Saleel Awsare, SVP & GM at Synaptics. “Bringing collectively key enabling applied sciences in edge {hardware} and algorithms for pc imaginative and prescient, audio, and safety, whereas leveraging a long time of expertise and deep data of consumers’ necessities, will enable us to collectively quickly deploy, scale, and re-define the HPD expertise.”
A typical low-power smart vision architecture consists of a low-resolution image sensor coupled with an Edge AI SoC that is usually constrained with respect to compute and memory resources. Already deployed and field proven for a multitude of applications, Emza’s uniquely tuned ML algorithms meet the challenges of such a resource-constrained environment by maximizing AI inference per milliwatt for optimal visual sensing performance.
The Emza solution complements Synaptics’ KatanaTM AI SoC platform and together they enable HPD applications in devices ranging from PCs, notebooks, and smart TVs, to assisted living cameras.
Based in Giv’atayim, near Tel Aviv, the Emza team will become part of Synaptics Israel, in Herzliya.
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Synaptics’ Emza technology is available now. For more information, contact your local Synaptics sales representative.
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