Associative approach to real time color, motion and stereo vision

Presents a new methodology, based on the associative signal processing (ASP) approach to real time parallel image processing. The architecture is fully programmable and can be programmed to implement a wide range of color image processing, computer vision and multi-media algorithms at much faster than video rate. The approach is based on an array of thousands of processors, each is nothing but an "intelligent" memory word that can identify itself to a value and change its content accordingly. Benchmark results show that when assigning an "intelligent" word (processor) to each pixel in the image, computational power of several hundred billion instructions per second is obtained. A chip based on this approach was developed by ASP Solutions Ltd. The chip called XIUM includes 1024 processors, each with 72 "intelligent" bits, has computational power of 1 BIPS and cloud identifies at a rate of 20 billion patterns per second. A commercial chip with 2 BIPS performance-the XIUM-II-is now on the final stage of development.