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Canesta is the inventor of a revolutionary, low-cost electronic perception technology that enables ordinary electronic devices to perceive and react to nearby objects or individuals in real time. When sight-enabled with Canesta’s unique electronic perception chips and software, consumer, automotive, industrial, military, and medical products will gain functionality and ease of use not possible in...More»
Canesta is the inventor of a revolutionary, low-cost electronic perception technology that enables ordinary electronic devices to perceive and react to nearby objects or individuals in real time. When sight-enabled with Canesta’s unique electronic perception chips and software, consumer, automotive, industrial, military, and medical products will gain functionality and ease of use not possible in an era when electronics were blind. Canesta has taken a leadership role in defining and implementing practical electronic perception technology with the development of low-cost, semiconductor-based image sensor chip technology and powerful embedded image processing software. Canesta's technology provides actionable perceptions or identifications to third-party applications that permit these applications embedding Canesta's technology to react in a manner appropriate to their function.«Less
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| Date | Type | Capital Amount | Post-Money Valuation | Investors |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 09/13/2007 | Series D | 10M | Unknown | |
| 10/2009 | Series E | 16M | Unknown |
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| Name: | CANESTAVISION™ CHIPS |
| Product URL: | http://canesta.com/products-and-technology/products/canestavision-chips |
| Description: | In a recently-granted U.S. patent, Canesta describes several of its inventions for "timing" the travel time of light to a unique, new class of low-cost sensor chips. Fundamentally, the chips work in a manner similar to radar, where the distance to remote objects is calculated by measuring the time it takes an electronic burst of radio waves to make the round trip from a transmitting antenna to a reflective object (like a metal airplane) and back. In the case of these chips, however, a burst of unobtrusive light is transmitted instead. The chips, which are not fooled by ambient light, either then time the duration it takes the pulse to reflect back to each pixel, using high speed, on-chip timers in one method, or simply count the number of returning photons, an indirect measure of the distance, in another. |
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