In the automotive industry, safety and convenience are top priorities for vehicle manufacturers. Canesta's electronic perception technology make that possible with a variety of innovative applications that help drivers with detection of rear-obstacles and blind spots, parking assistance, and sophisticated occupant-sensing to improve the performance of safety restraint systems.

Today, automakers use a variety of sensing technologies (e.g. ultrasonic, RADAR, LIDAR, digital image sensing, etc.) to achieve basic versions of these services. But they present limitations and compromises. And the need for multiple disparate technologies makes it challenging and expensive to deploy individual safety features quickly and broadly.

With its patented electronic perception technology, Canesta has the answer: a low-cost single-chip system that provides both ranging and recognition functions together in one small package. Unlike the sensors in digital video cameras that see the world as flat images, Canesta calculates - in real-time - the distance from the sensor to the scene at every single pixel in the image, creating a rich 3D image.

Canesta enables manufacturers to deploy new safety features - quickly and cost-effectively - in an even wider selection of vehicles. More importantly, one device can be used to implement multiple safety and convenience functions in a vehicle.