TOSHIBA AND SUMITOMO METAL JOINT DEVELOP IMAGE ANALYSIS MACHINE

And Toshiba Corp and Sumitomo Metal Industries Inc have jointly developed the world’s first specialised image analysis machine, and are calling the thing the ImageVisor: it is claimed to reduce the time required for image analysis processing by between 90% and 99%; the hardware, which incorporates a pipeline processing technique commonly used in supercomputers, and parallel processing of graphics parameters, will be manufactured by Toshiba, and Sumitomo Metals will build an engineering workstation based on it, to be sold through Toshiba and Far East trading, a medium-sized machinery trader, at $100,000.