Recently, on January 6, The open source autonomous driving company Tier IV announced that Canon is its strategic partner, which will produce dedicated in-vehicle cameras for it. The Japanese company developed the world's first open source software for autonomous driving: Autoware, built on Linux and ROS. Canon will work with Tier IV to develop L4 autonomous driving technology. Due to the downturn in the digital camera industry, Canon is looking for a new business type, announcing that it will use optical lens technology to manufacture automotive cameras for use in autonomous driving systems.
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It is reported that Canon will jointly develop related in-vehicle camera products such as autonomous driving and advanced automatic driving assistance systems (ADAS) with Tier IV, and test them on Tier IV's self-driving vehicles. Canon said that such cameras can also be used in areas such as robot security monitoring, and plans to sell them in 2022, mainly ToB. In addition, Canon will also devote itself to the Driving Monitoring System (DMS), which can use cameras to monitor driver behavior in real time. Canon's camera business is indeed shrinking, and it has also encountered a chip supply outage, which is worse, and developing new business can also be regarded as opening up a new increment for the company. Canon's camera is still good, and friends who like photography can consider starting.
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