MediaTek today announced the launch of several new AI products for the smart home, including the latest generation of MediaTek’s TV AI picture quality (PQ) technology, the new MT8175 AI vision platform for smart displays and smart cameras, and the new MT8518 AI voice platform for portable smart speakers. These new solutions continue MediaTek’s vision to bring edge AI everywhere by creating a wide-ranging ecosystem of edge AI hardware processing solutions paired with comprehensive software tools. Today MediaTek is bringing the latest AI innovations to smart homes, wearables, smartphones, autonomous cars and other connected devices.
The latest generation of MediaTek’s TV AI PQ technology brings AI enhancements like scene detection, which includes face detection within scenes, to digital TVs. With scene detection capabilities, smart TVs can differentiate between frames with people and other types of scenes – such as a landscape, indoor scene or sports arena – to automatically adjust the sharpness for maximum picture quality, and also fine-tune the appearance of skin tone at the same time. Conventional picture quality can’t precisely distinguish each scene – between skin tones and landscapes – so it delivers a “balance” or compromise on picture quality settings. With AI PQ and intelligent processing, MediaTek delivers truer picture quality without compromises.
MediaTek’s TV AI PQ technology works by flagging different types of scenes with AI, and then processing this information with the PQ engine to apply the scene-adaptive PQ settings. As the No. 1 chipmaker for smart TVs, MediaTek has always been at the forefront of digital TV innovation. In 2017, MediaTek became the first system-on-chip (SoC) vendor to complete evaluation tests with Verance Aspect, an essential component of the Next Gen TV transmission standard (ATSC 3.0).
“Voice assistants integrated with displays and cameras will bring users a more interactive experience and even more useful capabilities thanks to MediaTek’s MT8175 AI vision platform,” said Yu. “In addition to enhancing the viewing experience, MT8175 equips devices with the latest image signal processing (ISP) and AI process unit (APU) technologies to make image capturing faster, clearer and with lower power consumption.”
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