A Networked High-Speed Vision System for 1,000-FPS Visual Feature Communication

A networked high-speed vision system that employs as a vision sensor node a digital vision chip, a CMOS imager that integrates a digital processing element with a photo detector in each pixel is reported. High-speed visual feature information at the frame rate of 1,000 fps is transferred over the standard TCP/IP on 100BASE-TX Ethernet switching network. We evaluated the effectiveness of the system through experiments, and found that the system can convey visual information with sufficiently small latency.