(IDS: Obersulm, Germany) -- The IDS NXT “malibu” marks a new class of intelligent industrial cameras that act as edge devices and generate AI overlays in live video streams. For the new camera series, Imaging Development Systems (IDS) has collaborated with Ambarella, a leading developer of visual AI products.

The cameras feature Ambarella’s CVflow AI vision system on chip (SoC), and takes full advantage of the SoC’s advanced image processing and on-camera AI capabilities. Image analysis can be performed at high speed (>25 fps) and displayed as live overlays in compressed video streams via the RTSP protocol for end devices.

Thanks to the SoC’s integrated image signal processor (ISP), the information captured by the light-sensitive onsemi AR0521 image sensor is processed directly on the camera and accelerated by its integrated hardware. The camera also offers helpful automatic features, such as brightness, noise, and color correction, which significantly improve image quality.

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