Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “SoftKinetic at CES”.
We’Re here at CES 2014 talking with Eric rissalah of soft kinetic about 3d scanning, so soft kinetic develops a whole host of 3d scanning applications and they’ve recently announced a partnership with MakerBot to create some 3d scanning desktop application and Eric’s going to tell us a little Bit about what soft kinetic does and what they’ve been working on so far, initially we are developing time-of-flight technologies, so 3d sensors based on time athletic energy and that technology is really trusting because it can do a lot of different things. We started with the gesture recognition and now we’re moving to other type of applications. So one of them, one of the most important one for us – is 3d scanning data acquisition from the outside audio world, and for that we can really work with them, afraid and tweak it adapted to that new type of application. Excellent, so tell us a little bit about what time of flight is and how a difference differs from other types of 3d scanning and currently on the market yeah. So time of flight is a very simple technology principles, very simple: it’s really about measuring the time that the light takes to get out of the camera, bouncing the object and return to the sensor, and so each pixel of the sensor is capable of measuring the time That the tether, the light took to do the distance, so each pixel is giving you a distance and so based on that, then you can start to reconstruct objects very fast and very accurately excellent. And what are some of the other types of pretty skating that are out there and how are they different yeah? So there are a lot of different techniques to acquire that 3d stereoscopic vision struck to light, but also laser-based scanners, and so here what we are doing, that we are acquiring a lot of information at the same time very fast, because the sensor can acquire 60 frame Per second or even higher, so we can really move the camera and the scanner very fast around the object and go very fast for your scanning and as it’s a handle device, you can really scan big objects as well. You are not limited to you know a turntable type of scanner, so it’s very flexible in that way. Excellent, so will this result in more more detailed and kind of more precise type of scams? Yeah yeah absolutely so we are modifying or technology adapting our technology ready for scanning to improve mainly the accuracy of the details that you can capture and because of time of flight is flexible. For instance, you can go very close to the object you want to scan and then immediately you, you acquire more details of the object that you are scanning and you can also go further away to capture a larger scene.
So that’s really the beauty of time of flight, it’s very flexible in the in that way so does teleflex. Can I have the same limitations as the other types? You know, shiny objects, don’t scan well and all those limitations. Yes, indeed, it’s not. I mean we have some limitations that we need to work around like, as you said, we know reflective objects.
Very reflective objects can be an issue. You know because well walking with light, it’s like a mirror when you are looking at yourself in the mirror. You think that you are at twice the distance of where you really are and so that that kind of a situation can be a problem better by combining time afraid with a regular RGB sensor. We can overcome all those issues and and come to a radio. A very good solution, fantastic! Well, we know this is an active development, we’re really looking forward to seeing what comes out of your part right. Thank you. .