Canesta, a pioneering company in the perception technology field, has introduced a commercial development kit for its 3-D-sensor machine vision chip.

Applications using Canesta’s electronic perception technology include size and depth detection, image segmentation, object classification, object tracking and location analysis, and human interaction.

For example, the technology could be used to sense the location, size and shape of a person. That would allow for making an airbag that could choose to deploy or not, depending on whether the occupant was an adult or child.