MasterImage 3D continues to turn the spotlight on the 3D community with our Partner Spotlight blog series. Today, we talk to Veera Raju, who manages the Natural User Interface Team for Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI)
My name is Veera Raju, managing the Natural User Interface Team at Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI). As part of my role, I have the privilege to work with one of the most exciting TI product lines (at least, in my opinion): the smart multicore OMAP™ processors. These processors rest at the heart of next-generation stereoscopic-3D (S3D) experiences, offering the highest-quality and performance, all at low power levels.
Using OMAP processors as a solid foundation, we partnered with MasterImage 3D team to help OEMs bring “on-the-move” S3D capabilities to life on smartphones, tablets and other mobile products.
Bringing S3D to the mobile environment is no simple task. In fact, I provided some details to the process in a previous EE Times article. Knowing what it takes, what makes OMAP processors the optimal choice for mobile S3D capabilities? Among other benefits, the OMAP line up utilizes two ARM® Cortex™-Ax cores, hardware accelerators (IVA HD, DSP, ISP) and two ARM Cortex-Mx cores, which run the S3D processing and enable full-HD S3D experiences. This intelligent architecture helps OMAP processors provide superior quality S3D viewing experience through the use of display subsystem accelerators. The processors are extremely power-efficient even when carrying out the most intensive S3D tasks – since the majority of S3D processing is offloaded to hardware accelerators and the lower-power Cortex-M cores to free up the Cortex-A host CPUs. We also provide OEMs with unique algorithms that run on hardware accelerators, in an effort to save costs through manufacturing misalignment correction of cameras, and use preferred convergence options to enable high flexibility for users to choose between different S3D quality.
