Omron Presents Human Vision Components

Marketwired: Omron announces the Human Vision Components (HVC) module. The HVC integrates Omron’s image sensing technology (OKAO Vision) along with a camera, processor, and external interface onto a single PCB, sized at 60x40 mm. Each HVC offers 10 functions, including face detection, face recognition, age estimation, gender estimation, facial pose estimation, gaze estimation, blink detection, facial expression estimation, hand detection and human body detection.

The company's Youtube video demos the system and gives application examples:



Techcrunch reports that Omron OKAO technology is used in Amazon Firephone to create 3D display effects.