With the heat and landing of the technology circle in the fields of wearable devices, smart homes, and the Internet of Things, the comprehensive creation of intelligent life has become the next focus, and the human-computer interaction will gradually become the key to realizing this life. Link.
For example, the end user wants the device to have a better and simpler experience, which involves simplifying the human-machine interface. As a human-machine interface vendor, SynapTIcs is designed to make it easier to interact with smart devices. In the past few months, SynapTIcs has acquired the multimedia divisions of Conexant and Marvell, accelerating the layout in the human-machine interface.
SynapTIcs CEO Rick Bergman
SynapTIcs CEO Rick Bergman pointed out that "Synaptics currently has many decisive pillar technologies, including capacitive sensing technology, display drivers and integrated sensing technology, video and image processing technology, optical imaging technology, far-field speech and voice acquisition technology. Acoustic and audio output processing technology. But in fact, our journey has only just begun. These technologies help the entire market to revolutionize the human-machine interface experience, and also help new device types enrich the lives of each of us."
Engineers who know can find that in the past few years Synaptics has only one pillar technology, namely capacitive sensing technology. Originally used in laptops, the company acquired Renesas SP Drivers three years ago to help Synaptics expand its display technology. During the same period, Synaptics also invested in the development of optical imaging technology, and optical technology will also be applied in fingerprint technology.
As the industry moved forward, voice also grew rapidly as a key human-machine interface, and it also allowed Synaptics to decide to acquire Conexant and Marvell's multimedia divisions. Rick Bergman said that he hopes to help Synaptics grow in technology, complete the backbone technology of human-machine interface, providing far-field speech and speech acquisition technology, acoustic and audio output processing technology, and video and image processing technology.
And mentioned the future Synaptics target market. In addition to the three markets of computers, mobile phones and automobiles, the consumer Internet market is one of Synaptics' four target markets and is currently the largest market in the world. There are many different products in the consumer Internet market, with an opportunity of 3 billion solutions every year.
Established a new IoT department and established three main businessesAmong the important components of the Internet of Things, Synaptics already has technologies for voice, biometrics, touch, display, processing, and imaging. There are three main businesses in the current new IoT sector, including VideoSmartTM, ImagingSmartTM and AudioSmart®, AudioSmart® from Conexant, ImagingSmartTM technology focusing on imaging technology, and VideoSmartTM, in video. technology.
Syneltics Vice President and General Manager of the Voice and Graphics Division Saleel Awsare
Syneltics, vice president and general manager of the voice and graphics division at Synaptics, said, "In the four months since the acquisition, Synaptics has established a new IoT segment dedicated to the consumer Internet of Things market. This sector consists of three main components. Part, one of which is Conexant's business; the second part is Marvell's multimedia department, which brings us image and video processing capabilities; the third part is Synaptics' original video interface department. Now these three parts are combined to form a new one. The IoT team. With the composition of the new team, we added voice, image and video processing capabilities to expand the customer base. And the composition of the new team also allows us to enter the AI ​​market."
Through the integration of Conexant, Marvell, and the original technology of Synaptics, Synaptics now has more than 700 patents in the Internet of Things, including artificial intelligence algorithms, as well as machine learning/neural networks, and we are The most important differentiation technology in the market is far-field speech.
Provide two different voice solutions to promote the development of human-machine interfaceNowadays, many smart speakers use voice control. In fact, voice technology can be suitable for multiple products. Next, there will be 30 to 40 products using Synaptics technology. According to Saleel Awsare, Synaptics has two different solutions for voice technology, one for far-field voice solutions and one for personal voice solutions.
1. In the far field voice interaction technology. Since its acquisition, Conexant has been developing and launching its first product since 2012. When the voice interactive market is still immature, it has invested a lot of money in research and development in far-field voice. At present, far-field voice solutions have shipped more than 3,000 and are used in various types of devices. And far-field voice allows users to voice control the device within 5-6 meters.
2. Leading the transformation of headsets from analog to digital in personal voice solutions. Nowadays, many new mobile phones do not have a headphone jack. Because the mobile phone does not have a headphone jack, a digital interface is required, which leads to a large number of digital products and technologies. Synaptics is one of the very few suppliers worldwide with this technology solution.
Saleel Awsare said that, like far-field voice technology, Conexant's investment in personal voice solutions began three or four years ago. With the success of the solution and the continuous development of the market, there are more and more Vendors have begun to take down the headphone jack and have great advantages in this market, and more than 50 million USB and USB-Type C products have been shipped in this market.
From the far-field voice market, there are currently only 16 million AI voice assistants shipped worldwide in 2017. But IDC's research report pointed out that by 2020, this data will reach 150 million, an increase of 110%. A lot has been invested in Amazon's Alexa market. Synaptics is the only vendor that offers two microphones and four microphone solutions.
In AI products, Synaptics' AudioSmart® products are located between the microphone and the speaker to optimize speech recognition and device output performance through voice processing. Basically, technically, there are different technologies in the algorithm that have a blind source separation. In addition, echo cancellation is supported, and echo cancellation is closely integrated with blind source separation. On the technical level, there are ways to get the signal returned when the audio is played. If there is a way to combine these two technologies, the echo can be effectively processed even when the sound is loud.
Saleel Awsare said that the focus of the future will be on the consumer Internet of Things market, a market that will reach billions of dollars a year. He also pointed out that he is particularly excited about the current trend, because he has been investing in R&D voice interface since 5 years ago. Now, with the maturity of the market, he has also cooperated with every company in this market. Compared with the mature PC and smartphone market, the consumer Internet of Things market has just started, and there is still room for development in the future. In this regard, Synaptics is fully prepared and will continue to promote the development of human-machine interface.
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