Teardown reveals PrimeSense in Google’s Tango
The teardown also reveals two Myriad 1 vision processors from Movidius Ltd. (Dublin, Ireland) and a Snapdragon 800-series MSM8974 application processor.
Although PrimeSense was not mentioned as one of the original collaborators in Project Tango (see Google prototypes depth-sensing mobile phone) the startup was the developer of the Kinect 3D depth sensing system used with Microsoft Xbox 360. PrimeSense was acquired by Apple for about $345 million late in 2013.
The Project Tango prototype from Google has been created in partnership with OmniVision Technologies Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.), inertial MEMS sensor provider Bosch; Movidius Ltd. (Dublin, Ireland) the vendor of the Myriad 1 vision processor; and Paracosm (Gainsville, Florida), vendor of software that converts 3D scans into computer models.
The Capri PS1200 SoC works with an infrared illuminator that sends modulated IR light out and then an off-the-shelf CMOS image sensor to read the coded light back from the scene. The PS1200 then processes the coded IR patterns to produce a depth-image of the scene.
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