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Eutecus, Inc was established in Austin, TX, in 2002 by Laszlo
(Les) Belady, a veteran senior executive in Research and
Development, experienced in bringing new products and technology to
market. Les, who immigrated to the US in the 1950’s, held senior
positions at IBM (Thomas Watson Research Center, Corporate HQ in
Armonk and the Tokyo Research Laboratory), Mitsubishi Electric
(Chairman and CEO American R and D and a Member of the Mitsubishi
Electric America Board of Directors), the Microelectronics and
Computer Technology Corporation (MCC), and the Austin Software
Council.
Originally a native of Hungary, Les saw the rapid growth of
innovative technology and skill sets in Central Europe and founded
Eutecus with the mission to help bridge the gap between EUropean
TEChnology and US companies, markets, academic institutions and
research laboratories, and thus providing additional capabilities
to North America and Asia.
In 2003 Eutecus joined forces with AnaLogic Computers,
Ltd of
Budapest, Hungary, to initiate an engineering development and
marketing presence n North America and Asia of AnaLogic’s Cellular
Visual Technology for advanced high speed computer vision
applications and products. Privately held, Eutecus and AnaLogic
became two faces of the same company with AnaLogic having
responsibility for the European market and Eutecus for the rest of
the world.
AnaLogic was founded in 2000 by an international team of
world-acclaimed scientists from research institutions in Hungary (Computer
and Automation Research Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences – MTA SZTAKI), Spain (Instituto de
Microelectronica de Sevilla - CNM/CSIC) and the United States of America (The University of
California at Berkeley - UCB
).
Eutecus quickly established an office in Berkeley, CA as a
center for engineering development, applications, business
development and sales, with the administrative headquarters
remaining in Austin.
Since 2003, Eutecus has been awarded a number of Small Business
Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer
(STTR) grants for the Missile Defense Agency (MDA), the Office of
Naval Research (ONR) and the National Aeronautics and Space
Agency (NASA/JPL).
While the immediate projects are focused on terrain/object
recognition and multi-target tracking and discrimination used in
exploration/surveillance and weaponry, the underlying algorithm and
software development is applicable to a wide range of industrial
opportunities.
Commercialization of the technology has begun for machine vision in
a number of areas where ultra high speed real time processing is a
required technology component. These include real time quality
inspection, intelligent security and surveillance applications,
interactive gaming, and multiple military target acquisition,
tracking and guidance scenarios.
EUTECUS / AnaLogic products include a family of
intelligent cameras (the award-winning Bi-i), enabling software libraries for rapid application
prototyping (InstantVision
) and applications
development / consulting.
The Cellular Visual Technology (CVT ), developed by EUTECUS /
AnaLogic, is based on cellular nonlinear network (CNN)
type architectures that have been the main research subject of
the founding scientists. The computational power that can be
achieved using CVT is in the TeraOPS range (equivalent to 12th
decimal order of digital operations per second) in vision
processing applications. So far only supercomputers could compute
at such high speeds.
CVT combines a universally applicable software platform –
the Instant Vision ISE - with reconfigurable hardware: a
sensor platform and a modular control platform that can be easily
customized to meet the needs of different applications (Bi-i
intelligent cameras).
Depending on the complexity of the applications, CVT-based
devices can capture and evaluate up to ten thousand
(10,000) images per second. The current state of the art, based on
pure digital technology, similarly complex applications is limited
to about a few hundred images per second. The computer vision
industry has a number of products that can perform only some of the
tasks that can be achieved by CVT. These products include standard
video cameras coupled with desktop computers with current
state-of-the art Pentium processors.
EUTECUS and AnaLogic develop and sell CVT-based
hardware, software, or licenses for use of the technology; and
can either supply or help develop the entire
hw-sw environment of a specific high-speed application.
Briefly, Eutecus can act as supplier, consultant, or custom
developer of products that require the advantages of the
programmable, real time, extremely high speed, bio-inspired vision
processing systems in a number of applications areas.
Download the Eutecus/AnaLogic company brochure in PDF
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