Easy Eye: SiLabs 8051 + Camera

Image capture and 60fps color object targeting with an 8-bit microprocessor and a CMOS camera.

http://ChipSight.com/easy-eye-silabs-camera/

Advantages of directly connecting a CMOS digital camera to a microcontroller:

- Two components
- Easy to program
- Quick to prototype
- Low power

Disadvantages of directly connecting a CMOS digital camera to a microcontroller:

- Processor is fully occupied while sampling pixels for the object
- Cannot sample every pixel in sequence
- Very limited number of colors/shapes/objects can be detected (e.g. only one color detected in this project)

If a microcontroller like the F360 had a pixel-processing peripheral, you would get the best of both worlds -- easy, low-cost, low-power vision with high resolution, high frame rate, multiple object targeting.

http://ChipSight.com/

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• computer vision
• SiLabs
• 8051
• microcontroller
• CMOS camera