Demand for self-driving cars and the safety it brings is rising, particularly 
in Japan, where a super-aging society has upped the stakes considerably in 
recent years. Learn how Toshiba's image recognition technology, Visconti(TM), 
developed and refined over half a century, provides a myriad of possibilities 
in realising self-driving systems in the near future.

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Visconti(TM) - The Game Changer in Image Recognition Technology

Self-driving systems require high-level image recognition to see and understand 
its surroundings followed by decision making, so that humans don't have to. The 
latest version of Visconti(TM) 5 contributes to all these functions while also 
achieving lower power consumption than conventional processors.

There are two technologies that make up Visconti(TM). The first is image 
recognition, tasked with recognizing/detecting the other cars, pedestrians, and 
traffic lights from images on the vehicle-mounted cameras, and then assisting 
in taking action to prevent or avoid collisions, whether it be day or night. 
The other half of the technology that makes up Visconti(TM) is the embodiment 
of image recognition technology as a processor, which makes it viable as a 
business, a product.

Visconti(TM) was not simply the brainchild of Toshiba engineers, but instead 
created with customers and their inputs. By thinking about the features and 
functions that customers will want in the future, and preparing solutions for 
these needs in advance, Toshiba is able to create products with features that 
reflect its strengths.

When Toshiba's research in image recognition technology began half a century 
ago, AI and self-driving cars were an impossible dream. Many of Toshiba's past 
engineers believed in the potential of image recognition technology and worked 
tirelessly to refine it, eventually developing it into what it is today. Today, 
the research continues under the lead of two engineers across the research and 
business divisions, Ryuzo Okada and Takashi Miyamori, who shares a vision of 
making the world a better place with Visconti(TM).

SOURCE Toshiba Corporation