The OAK-1-Lite Auto Focus isn’t a standard USB camera. It’s a 4-trillion-operations-per-second AI powerhouse that performs your AI models on-board, so that your host is free to do whatever you need it to do. It has an electromagnet that controls the lens position dynamically. Its integrated 12 MegaPixel camera module communicates over an on-board 2.1 Gbps MIPI interface directly to the Myriad X, which ingests this data and performs neural inference on it, returning the results over USB. Such a data path offloads the host processor from all of this work. In the common use case of object detection from a 12MP image, this means your host is now dealing with a 24 Kbps stream of what the objects are and where they are in the image, instead of a 2.1 Gbps stream of video. So an 8,750,000% reduction in data your host has to deal with. And such a reduction means that even on relatively-slow hosts, one can use dozens of OAK-1 without burdening the host CPU.

Benefits

• 4 TOPS of processing power (1.4 TOPS for AI)
• Run any AI model, even custom architectured/built ones
• Auto-Focus can focus on objects dynamically, which is mainly useful for objects within 50cm of the device.
• Clearly see objects beyond 50 cm, working between 50 cm and infinity
• Stereo depth perception with filtering, post-processing, RGB-depth alignment, and high configurability
• 2D and 3D tracking with ObjectTracker node
• Great for industrial automation, robotics, surveillance IP camera, security systems, remote intelligence etc.