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According to foreign media reports, on October 28 local time, prophet SA, a start-up company based in Paris, France, the world's most advanced inventor of neuromorphological vision system, announced the completion of financing worth 28 million US dollars (about 197 million yuan), bringing its total financing amount to 68 million US dollars (about 478 million yuan). (photo source: Prophet) this financing is led by European investment bank, and also includes stage investment of commercial investors, including existing investors of prophet, ibionext, 360 capital partners, Robert Bosch venture capital, supernova investment and some investors with undisclosed identities. Previously, prophet has raised US $40 million (RMB 281 million) since its establishment, and this new financing will accelerate the industrialization of its innovative bionic technology. Prior to this financing, prophet launched its first finished and mass-produced event based sensor, which is based on the previous three generations of architecture developed by the company and its business partners. Prophesee's neuro morphological vision specific sensors and algorithms simulate the work of the human eye and brain, and can be used in areas such as self driving cars, automation industry and safety monitoring. Prophet will further develop this unique metavision ® sensor and innovative neural morphology algorithm with the funds from this financing, which will be used in industry 4.0 to achieve high-performance predictive maintenance applications. The next generation of metavision ® sensors will target visual applications in the automotive and consumer markets, including, ADAS, and VR / AR and the Internet of things. Prophet's technology is based on research and development achievements in the field of vision, including the breakthrough research on human brain and eyes conducted by vision research institutions (CNRS, UPMC, INSERM) in the past 20 years. The early stages of Prophet technology helped develop the first industrial grade silicon retina, which can be used to restore vision to the blind. In prophet's patented metavision ® sensor, each pixel is independent and unsynchronized, and only when it senses changes and movements in the scene (i.e. events) will it activate. Unlike traditional frame based systems, this event based proprietary approach can significantly reduce power consumption, latency, and data processing requirements (10 to 1000 times less raw data). This technology enables the sensor to achieve a higher dynamic range (> 120dB), which is usually related to high-speed vision. In addition, cost-effective sensors and systems can be implemented to record events. Otherwise, the traditional camera needs to run 10000 or more images per second. Moreover, the solution is particularly suitable for monitoring and monitoring. The high dynamic range of the vision sensor enables it to operate in poor lighting environment, and produces less data than the traditional frame based method, which reduces the computational burden of scene analysis and processing. Prophet's solutions can improve a variety of industrial applications, such as accelerating the quality assessment of production lines; reducing the number of calibrations of high-speed detection systems; providing positioning, sensing and mobile guidance for robots to achieve better human-computer cooperation; and monitoring equipment (to avoid failures caused by vibration and motion deviation), which can eventually become predictive maintenance solutions to reduce machine downtime Machine time.