CEVA Inc., one of the leading licensors of silicon intellectual property (SIP) platform solutions and DSP cores, has announced a collaboration to integrate Tessera’s FotoNation embedded image enhancement solutions on CEVA’s portable multimedia platform, the CEVA-MM2000.
The technology will enable high-performance face detection and face tracking capabilities running completely in software on CEVA’s fully programmable multimedia platform. FotoNation embedded image enhancement technologies provides a full portfolio of solutions, improving image quality and enhancing, extending and simplifying picture taking for digital still cameras, cell phones, game consoles and other camera-enabled devices. Face detection and tracking are the latest additions to the broad range of video, audio and image enhancement software available for the MM2000 platform and further illustrates the extensive capabilities enabled for licensees of CEVA’s fully programmable multimedia solution.
“The combination of CEVA’s leadership in programmable multimedia solutions for portable devices and Tessera’s innovations in embedded imaging solutions enables us to enhance the feature set offered on the MM2000 platform for a wide range of applications,” said Michael Bereziuk, Executive Vice President, Imaging & Optics, Tessera. “Together we can bring solutions which both simplify the user’s image capture experience, while optimizing the image quality of mobile camera-enabled devices, under a wide range of conditions."
“Tessera’s FotoNation technology brings embedded image enhancement capabilities to the MM2000 platform and provides a valuable addition to the software offerings available for our MM2000 platform,” said Eyal Ben-Avraham, Vice President, Partners & Ecosystem, for CEVA. “The ease-of-programmability of our MM2000 platform enables our customers to truly differentiate their CEVA-based multimedia SoCs through software. Offerings such as the FotoNation technology from Tessera and other quality improvement pre/post-processing functions are vital especially for mobile devices.”
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