Toyota Lexus UX and Lexus NX with Toshiba’s Image Recognition Processor Win Highest Score in Japan’s Assessment of Preventive Safety Performance

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Toshiba Electronics Europe GmbH nowadays introduced that Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation Visconti™ 4 picture recognition processor changed into a key factor of the driving force assistance structures of Lexus sedans from Toyota Motor Corporation (“Toyota”) that obtained awesome opinions within the 2019 first half of Japan New Car Assessment Program (JNCAP). The authorities-backed software assesses the road safety of recent vehicles, and the very best ranked are recognized as superior safety motors (ASV). The Toyota Lexus UX and Lexus NX recorded industry-main rankings of 141 points and, alongside with the Lexus ES, had been evaluated as ASV+++, the very best feasible stage.

JNCAP become initiated through the Japanese government in 1995 to sell the protection of new cars launched in Japan. It brings collectively the effects of car protection exams completed by means of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT) and the National Agency for Automotive Safety and Victims' Aid (NASVA). Tests cover car overall performance in respect of preventive safety, collision protection, and pedestrian protection. The Preventive Safety Performance Assessment evaluates advanced protection technologies, together with emergency braking.

In 2018, JNCAP introduced evaluation of harm mitigation braking for pedestrians on lit streets at night. This yr the same old was made even more rigorous, and now evaluates damage mitigation braking for pedestrian at night on unlit streets.

Toshiba components Visconti™ four to Toyota motors as an indispensable a part of DENSO Corporation’s Front-Camera-Based Active Safety System. The LSI’s ability to technique luminance variations between items and their backgrounds, knowing higher detection of pedestrians at night time and in low mild conditions, helped the Toyota motors win excessive ratings inside the evaluation. The Lexus UX and Lexus NX integrating the machine received a excessive score of 141 factors, and all the Toyota models integrating Visconti™ 4 were evaluated as ASV+++.

Toshiba keeps to channel sources into Visconti™ as a contribution to superior driver assistance systems (ADAS). The organization has already began pattern shipments of Visconti™ five, which gives you advanced Deep Neural Network IP, in September this year.

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