Starting this month, the company will offer a development kit and library to help users get their own systems up and running. Toshiba, meanwhile, is planning a 2000 rollout for the motion processor it demoed in prototype form. We are looking for appropriate applications. It executes programmable filtering on-chip, directly on the projected images, just like a biological retina. As the first customer for the device, Nintendo used the artificial retina in a camera for its portable Game Boy machine.
Players use it to capture images that can be edited easily on the Game Boy.
Introduced in February in Japan and in June in the United States, Pocket Camera for Game Boy sold more than 1 million units in the first two months, the spokeswoman said. Timed with the debut of the Nintendo camera, Mitsubishi started volume production of the 128 x 128-pixel retina LSI in a transparent package. Capacity has reached 1 million units a month. Working on a Windows 95 PC through the ISA bus, a user can evaluate all functions of the artificial retina. It can handle simple image capturing, edge extraction, pattern matching and random access, in which it opens a small window and outputs only the data inside the window.