[Image Processing Engineer Column] The Path Taken
アポロ精工 アポロ精工 新横浜オフィス（旧ケーアイテクノロジー/旧市川ソフトラボラトリー）
As engineers, we should look forward without looking back. I have been sharing this message, but this time I have intentionally chosen this title. Let me introduce the path I have walked. In school, I happened to join a research lab of a professor who was working part-time in "image processing." My first job after graduating and entering the workforce was the development of an "inspection device using a camera." The main CPU was a Motorola 6809. I also designed hardware circuits for the image processing section using the 74 series. The binary template matching board was the size of two 6U units. It was a given that I would write the software for the circuits I created myself. Initially, the camera used a vidicon tube, which later changed to CCD and CMOS. In the next phase, I upgraded to a 68020 CPU with UNIX as the OS, and I also designed the CPU board myself. For the specialized image processing section, I used AMD's bit-slice 2901. Thanks to this device, I learned the workings of microcontrollers. Coincidentally, I have continued to be involved in "image processing" from my new graduate days to the present. I believe that my experience in both hardware and software design is beneficial to my current work in "system design." *News is distributed through our company's newsletter.
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