Ambarella (NASDAQ code: AMBA, a semiconductor company specializing in AI vision chips), has joined hands with pioneering companies in the automotive lighting and electronics industries, HASCO VISION, and SAIC Group's Zhiji Auto to create a car that can perceive the driving environment. A smart car light system that realizes full-scenario adaptive lighting, and announced that this smart car light system has entered the mass production stage.
Established on December 25, 2020, Zhiji Auto is a brand-new user-based automotive technology and innovation company jointly created by SAIC, Zhangjiang Hi-Tech and Alibaba Group. The world's first corporate form of the future company, creating "what a car in the smart era should look like". The Zhiji L7, which debuted at the Shanghai Auto Show in 2021, not only brings a brand new luxury experience of smart electric travel, but also the exclusive rights and interests of users in the new era. Zhiji L7 has a world-leading 0.21 ultra-low drag coefficient for mass-produced cars, which perfectly integrates avant-garde aesthetics and excellent performance, effectively increasing the cruising range to 708 kilometers; the shortest braking distance of 32.69 meters at the same level, "achieves, and brakes firmly." "; The ultimate control of F1 Williams' master-level chassis tuning allows users to enjoy the driving pleasure of "flying close to the ground". On December 26, 2021, Zhiji L7 has been officially offline and delivered.
Huayu Vision has been committed to the technological innovation of digital lighting to make automobile lighting more intelligent. The DLP digital light processing projection headlights newly launched by Huayu Vision on the market are like carrying a small projector on the road. At present, Huayu Vision is the only company in the world that can provide a complete set of smart car light solutions, from the development of a complete set of visual hardware and software system technology to a complete system linked to the 2.6 million pixel headlight system. The smart 2.0 car lights mounted on the Zhiji car have a stronger sense of experience and impact.
Huayu Vision integrates the Ambarella CV22AQ AI vision processor in the intelligent car light system of Zhiji Auto. The processor uses image processing, deep learning and other methods to realize the recognition of vehicles, pedestrians, lane lines, non-motorized vehicles, and intelligent perception of driving. Environment, realizing the full-scene adaptive lighting.
In terms of function, the intelligent lighting system of Zhiji Automobile deeply integrates the visual perception system of the camera, so that the car lights can "talk". Use Spot light (searchlight) to remind pedestrians and alert traffic risks in advance; use the deep learning perception system to identify road narrowing conditions, and automatically trigger the width-display light blanket in advance to realize the width-display light blanket guidance, and automatically adapt to the lane Line drawing light blanket. If a pedestrian passes through the lane, the vehicle will automatically decelerate, and a deceleration icon will be projected on the ground, and a dynamic zebra crossing will be displayed in front of the vehicle to create a more comfortable and safer travel experience.
The system uses Ambarella AEC-Q100 Grade 2 certified 10nm process AI visual perception chip CV22AQ, ultra-low power consumption is less than 2W. With high-quality/high-performance ISP (image signal processing) capabilities, the equivalent computing power of the CVflow AI deep learning engine is 3 TOPS. In addition, CV22AQ H.264/H.265 video encoding capability reaches 8Mp30, and supports mainstream deep learning frameworks such as Caffe, Tensorflow, PyTorch, PaddlePaddle, etc. Customers can use CV22 to deploy cameras with high-performance deep learning functions. Compared with inefficient CPU and GPU solutions, its powerful computer vision performance combines high-quality image processing, high-efficiency video encoding, and low-power operations required for mass production, bringing camera intelligence to a new level.
The cooperation between Ambarella, Huayu Vision and Zhiji Auto in the intelligent vehicle light system has given the lights the potential to show rich personalization and expand infinite scene interaction. In the future, the intelligent car language system built with cross-age innovation technology will give the lights of the car a social attribute, and expand the light interaction from the inside of the car to the outside of the car.
