The new SpacePoint® 9-axis Sensor System with Headway Sensor Engine is the first complete 9-axis sensor system that provides the accuracy and responsiveness needed to improve and expand gaming and location based applications. With SpacePoint sensor outputs from accelerometers, gyroscopes, and magnetometers is fused and filtered by the proprietary Headway Sensor Engine™ to deliver pinpoint heading accuracy, attitude and signal reliability. And, unlike currently available 9-axis systems, it eliminates gyro drift and susceptibility to magnetic distortion and anomalies without the need for user calibration. So game play is immersive and longer. Compass heading is reliable so navigation is accurate. And direction is precise enabling true augmented reality applications. All this without frequent user-calibration frustrations.
The SpacePoint 9-axis sensor system with the Headway Sensor Engine contains complex sensor-fusion algorithms to rapidly execute the motion processing applications from the raw sensor data and enable the functionality and accuracy demanded by today’s smartphones and mobile handsets. Unlike the low-pass filtering used in standard motion processing algorithms, SpacePoint with Headway is the result of over 20 years of motion sensor algorithm development. It includes customizable features that can be optimized by OEMs as needed for specific customer applications and designs. With SpacePoint, customers are freed from investing time and money in complex, internal algorithm development. So SpacePoint enables shorter design cycles, better implementation and higher performance to meet the new application requirements of smartphones and mobile handsets.
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9-axis measurement (3:3:3) |
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Motion Tracking | |||
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Low Latency |  |
Magnetic Immunity |
Features
Reliable compass heading |
Absolute point tracking and motion tracking accuracy |
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| For accurate navigation | Latency is below human perception | |
Immunity to magnetic interference |
Proprietary sensor engine outputs |
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| High performance in real-world environments | Quaternion, heading, pitch, roll, linear acceleration, gravity, and pointer Hpos and Vpos | |
9 axes of motion tracking |
API library
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| 3-axis magnetometer, 3-axis gyroscope, 3-axis accelerometer | Flexible and rapid integration into your design |
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SpacePoint is available as a complete system or separately as individual components for flexible and rapid system integration. The complete system requires:
For applications that require an extremely small hardware footprint, the Headway Sensor Engine is available separately to work with virtually any combination of MEMS sensors. |
The SpacePoint 9 axis sensor system is available for selected customer sampling. As the SpacePoint system is optimized for each application, it is currently available for high-volume consumer electronics only. Please contact sales@pnicorp.com for more information.
