Ultra-Low Power, Ultra High Thruput (ULTRA2) ASIC-based Cognitive Processor

摘要

There has been a significant advance in the capabilities of electro-optical sensors to search wide areas and provide data streams that contain information critical to system operators. The problem being addressed by this invention is the accurate and timely interpretation of the observations made by these sensor suites and the instantiation of the processing on practical low power, high throughput processors which enable deployment on a wide variety of platforms. The interpretation of sensor observations will also depend upon a) the general situation, e.g. level of hostility, and b) collateral data, e.g. normal or abnormal operations of the platforms themselves. Can accurate and timely situation awareness be achieved? Yes, humans do it all the time. Can it be done on small, ultra-low power, ultra-high throughput processors? Yes 3D stacked analog ASIC circuits enable such processors.

主权项

1. An image processing appliance comprising a family of processing functions instantiated on very high throughput, very low power processing elements that accomplishes real-time analysis of image data streams, detection, identification and extraction of important content, and interpretation of activities of objects of salient interest wherein the analysis functions accomplish a) determination of user-selected salient content based on spatial, temporal, and color correlations of scene objects, b) analysis of activities of salient objects within the image data streams, c) determination of the importance of salient object activities based on situational context of the activities and areas being observed.