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Meet Candera at digital Embedded World 2021

Experience the latest HMI solutions and attend Candera’s presentation about Next Generation of HMI Development

Linz/Austria, February, 2021 – from March 1-5, 2021 Embedded World will go digital and with more than 200 presentations will deliver a comprehensive and in-depth program of sessions, conferences and speaker slots. During these 5 days Candera will present its latest HMI solutions and give an interesting insight into the “Next Generation of HMI Development”, an online presentation by David Aberl, Head of Product Management, held on 2nd of March, at 11:25 AM.

Based on Candera’s HMI design tool CGI Studio, at Embedded World 2021 the company will present a mix of different HMI solutions for automotive, industrial and other applications. All solutions have been created with the assistance of a brand-new feature of CGI Studio, the AI based Smart Photoshop Importer. This feature is one out of many others of CGI Studio supporting the approach of leveraging designers’ creativity by simplifying the HMI development process as far as possible.

AI based Smart Photoshop Importer

Based on innovative AI detection algorithm technologies, Candera’s Smart Photoshop Importer has one major goal: to speed up the whole HMI creation process. In fact, this new feature enables to rapidly import Photoshop files into CGI Studio in order to automatically transform them into full functional HMIs. The technology behind this tool is an AI based UI/UX element detection and mapping technology that will help especially designers and graphic artists to save precious time and costs.

Image 1: Smart Photoshop importer automatically turns your UIs in full functional HMIs

More information about the Smart Photoshop Importer at Candera’s virtual booth.

TRAVEO™ II HMI Solution

Candera is excited to announce that it has been recently accredited as first certified partner within Infineon’s HMI Tool Certification Program. Infineon has designed this special evaluation program in order to ensure the best customer satisfaction and experience when using HMI software with the Infineon TRAVEO™ II Graphic Controller. At Embedded World 2021 Candera will show the certified HMI solution, a full digital instrument cluster and a warped dual Head-up display – both created with CGI Studio on TRAVEO™ II Graphic Controller.

Image 2: Full virtual dashboard and dual Head-up display created with Candera CGI Studio on Traveo II-C

Haptic User Interface

Together with next system and DATA MODUL Candera has developed an innovative HMI solution, supporting intuitive touch feedback technology. Featuring different use cases in application fields like industry, nautics, medicine and many more, the solution also includes a haptic pin pad, that supports person with visual impairment. This new solution will be available at the virtual booth and presented during the speaker slot.

Image: 3: Haptic User Interface created by Candera, next system and DATA MODUL

Holi(stic) HMI Solution

Holistic HMIs will not only have the ability to perfectly interact and communicate with each other, they will be able to connect with nomadic devices (e.g. Apple CarPlay, Google Android Auto) and consider both: the driver’s situation as well as the traffic environment.

Image 4: Holistic HMIs enable a perfect interaction and communication between multiple displays

Candera‘s Holi Solution has been created with CGI Studio and will show, how multiple displays are perfectly interacting and communicating with each other. This is possible due to Candera’s powerful messaging and data binding tool Courier Interaction Framework for smooth interaction between the HMI application and external data sources.

Online Presentation: Next Generation of HMI Development

The Candera team is excited to invite you to its online presentation about Next Generation of HMI Development at:

2nd of March at 11:25 AM, at the exhibitor forum of Embedded World

In this presentation attendees will learn more about how the future generation of HMI tools will transform the entire process of HMI development forever. This paradigm shift has already started and will be further accelerated by the rising demand for immersive HMI experiences as well as by the growing users expectations. David Aberl, Head or Product Management will highlight the main requirements and trends modern HMI tools have to consider in order to successfully master this transition. More information and free registering on: https://www.embedded-world.de/

The Candera team is looking forward to meet you at digital Embedded World.

About Candera

Candera, is a leading HMI tool provider and development partner for worldwide automotive and industrial customers.
Candera supports its customers with the CGI Studio tool environment as well as provision of software services mainly in the areas of HMI development and embedded software. Candera GmbH in Linz/ Austria and Candera Japan Inc. in Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo / Japan are both part of the ArtSpark Group situated in Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo / Japan.

Exhibited at “The 13th Automotive World” in Tokyo

Candera exhibited at “Automotive World” on January 20 to 22, 2021 at Tokyo Big Sight in Japan and online.

The 13th Automotive World https://www.automotiveworld.jp/en-gb.html

Automotive World Tokyo is the largest exhibition for the advanced automotive technologies worldwide. It is a combination of exhibitions & conferences covering important topics in the automotive industry such as automotive electronics, connected car, autonomous driving, EV/HV/FCV, lightweight, processing technology and MaaS.

The Candera booth showcased the latest novelties in the fields of Automotive HMI design and Embedded Software, including a digital meter cluster running on Renesas Electronics’ “R-Car M3”, and a high-resolution cluster demo using Mentor Graphics’ real-time operating system.

Furthermore, Candera introduced CGI Studio’s Smart Photoshop Importer, a brand-new feature, enabling a rapid and automated HMI creation.

David Aberl, Candera’s Product Manager, presented about “Smart HMI Development – AI assisted UI/UX automation” online. In this presentation he introduced more about Candera’s Smart Photoshop Importer, and how this feature can especially support graphical artists and designers with no programming skills to automatically create full functional HMIs.

R-Car M3 Cluster Solution

This modern digital cluster on Renesas Electronics’ “R-Car M3” is one of the newest iterations of Candera‘s ambition to shape and create the future of automotive HMIs. It includes a modern design, PBR, Particle effects, Morphing and many more.

Safety Certifiable High Resolution Cluster Demo

This solution showcases safety separation between an advanced automotive cluster HMI application, implemented using CGI Studio, and safety-critical digitally displayed tell-tale warning indicators. It addresses the challenge of mixing safety-critical and non-critical information on a single instrument cluster display while satisfying essential safety requirements for automotive certification such as ISO 26262.

Apart from those solutions, Candera presented several other innovative HMI solutions for the Automotive industry, like an AndroidTM based solution and the Holistic HMI approach. We had many visitors came to Candera booth.

LG Electronics and Candera GmbH to present an innovative AR solution

Linz/Austria – ‎Seoul/ South Korea, 9/11/2020 – LG Electronics Inc. is excited to announce the development of an innovative AR solution supporting various displays such as head-up display (HUD) and center information display (CID) for automotive and in-vehicle use. This modern AR solution displays situational key information like ADAS alerts, navigational hints, point of interests (POIs), or pedestrian detection directly onto the road by augmenting the real world with computer-generated visual graphics. It also supports fully customizable modeling of AR user interfaces without complicated coding to enhance the user experience (UX). This is the result of the collaboration with Candera GmbH, one of the leading HMI tool providers for automotive and industrial customers worldwide.

LG Conniro™ AR provides an intuitive user experience by augmenting the real world with computer-generated visual information.

LG’s AR solution supports intuitive AR scenes to reduce driver distraction

With the growing number of vehicles on the road the need for safety and reduced driver distraction is one of the most important factors driving the integration of AR solutions for HUDs and CIDs in the automotive market. Furthermore, whilst in the past head-up displays often were an optional or standard feature for premium cars only, in the near future they will also find their way into economy and standard vehicles. OEMs worldwide are currently exploring the possibilities and use cases of this new technology.

Based on this awareness LG Electronics Inc. situated in Seoul/ South Korea has been boosting its efforts to develop a modern AR solution that works with various in-vehicle displays such as HUD and AVN/CID. Unlike traditional HUDs displaying static information AR Head-up displays go one step further by blending in key information directly onto the lane and into the driver’s field of view. This of course requires the integration of a huge amount of vehicle sensor data, enabling a real-time projection of information, warnings and alerts. To implement these complex requirements LG Electronics has developed a powerful AR engine in order to be able to merge the real world with the digital content. LG AR engine is built upon the advanced sensor fusion framework that merges information observed by in-vehicle sensors in real time and predicts the future state of all interest objects around the car. This sophisticated signal processing framework ensures the stabilization of AR contents against vehicle dynamic motions and achieves reduced time delays, caused by system latency, between AR contents and the real world. LG’s AR engine is well optimized in terms of computational complexity, such that it achieves high frame rate in low performance system-on-chip (SoC) environments. In addition, it is also applicable to mobile devices like Android phone by using built-in mobile sensors as input to the AR engine.

LG’s AR solution features navigational hints, safety guides and an advanced POI Service

Combined with LG’s enhanced visualization technologies the result was a modern AR solution supporting intuitive AR scenes like navigational hints (route carpets, directional arrows, goal pins, POI highlights), ADAS alerts (active cruise control, lane departure warning, forward collision warning, pedestrian detection), and many more. Currently, LG’s AR solution is ready for the market and is in the process of mass production with a number of OEMs. “We believe that our technical readiness will provide better values to our customers, and mass production experience of various OEMs will further expand our business in the market” said Sukjin Chang, vice president of Smart Mobility Lab. in LG Electronics.

Candera CGI Studio makes LG’s AR solution fully customizable

To make the AR solution fully customizable for different OEM UX requirements LG was looking for an experienced HMI expert and development partner. That’s when Candera came into play. The Austrian HMI tool provider was enhancing the existing HUD with the powerful Candera render engine, to minimize latency and enhance clarity of the indicated information. “Especially when it comes to ADAS alerts or safety warnings, it is important that the information is displayed in real-time with zero delay” explains Roberto Hofer, technical sales manager of Candera. ”Incorporating further performance and latency optimizations into our render engine, we can ensure an in-time visualization of warnings as well as a pinpoint accuracy of visualized objects even at high speeds.”

AR simulator allows convenient development with recorded or simulated traces without permanent real-track necessity

Another common OEM requirement is an easy and fully customizable HUD. This was realized with Candera’s HMI design tool CGI Studio that has been developed on a user-friendly no coding approach. Indeed, CGI Studio’s ready-to use controls and automated workflows will support OEMs to customize the automotive AR solution to their personals needs without programming a single line of code.

For more information about the new AR solution please contact:

LG Electronics Inc.
Jaebok Choi
Tel.: +82(10)8780-7051
[email protected]
www.lg.com

Candera GmbH
Roberto Hofer
Tel.: +43 (676) 848255271
E-Mail: [email protected]
www.candera.eu

About Candera

Candera, is a leading HMI tool provider and development partner for worldwide automotive and industrial customers. It supports its customers with the CGI Studio tool environment as well as provision of software services mainly in the areas of HMI development and embedded software. Candera GmbH in Linz/ Austria and Candera Japan Inc. in Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo / Japan are both part of the ArtSpark Group situated in Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo / Japan.

Candera CGI Studio Release 3.9

Welcome to CGI Studio 3.9, Candera’s software development platform for creation of hybrid 2D and 3D graphical interfaces. Learn more about the most important features added since the last release.

CGI Studio Smart Photoshop Importer *Preview*

In CGI Studio 3.9 we integrated a preview of our innovative Smart Photoshop importer with one major goal: speed up your HMI creation process. It helps you importing your PSD files into CGI Studio, will automatically detect relevant components, such as gauges, sliders or buttons, and add the most probable functionality to each of these elements.

Import your PSD files and easily transform them into controls

This smart way of importing Photoshop files will make the time-consuming export of Photoshop files to separate graphics and the manual mapping to controls obsolete.

It will save time and also simplify the HMI composition process as much as possible.

Android Native View Control

The Native View control for Android allows you to seamlessly integrate native CGI Studio solutions in your Android applications. This enables HMI experts to leverage the benefits of both tools.

For example, you can reuse a highly performant, CGI Studio based, 3D GUI and enhance Android’s native capabilities.

The communication between Android app and the CGI Studio solution is handled via JSON format. A Kotlin-based Android sample project shows you how to integrate and use the Native View.

Fill your Android applications with a native and seamless 2D/3D CGI Studio solution

CGI Studio Player Value Generator

This simulation feature allows to animate controls, e.g. automotive gauges or progress bars without any additional configuration. It will enable rapid prototyping and the possibility to present a “living” and functional HMI to internal and external stakeholders.

Create living HMIs with the new player value generator

CGI Studio Control Center

The CGI Studio Control Center has been designed as a central application for experienced CGI Studio users in order to manage their solutions for different platforms (e.g. iMX6, R-Car D3 and many more), directly access the CGI Studio Player, start the CGI Analyzer and open recent solutions or available samples. Moreover, you can build SCHost/application with just a click and adopt the Control Center (via scripts) to your needs, such as managing builds or modifying for complex processes.

Manage your solutions for different platforms in the new control center

CGI Studio Tutorials

Aside from the new technical features, CGI Studio 3.9 also brings a host of helpful (video) tutorials, which will enable especially new users an easier start into CGI Studio. These step-by-step guides, starting with a general tool overview and continuing with topic by topic related videos, can be found at the start screen of Scene Composer and in the help menu.

Browse through our new tutorials and get an easy start with CGI Studio

Redesigned Controls

Apart from the major features, CGI Studio 3.9 also provides an innovative redesign of all controls. This new redesigned controls allow a fast drag-and-drop based creation of excellent looking HMIs for any kind of application.

Experience our new predesigned control

Improved Getting Started and Advanced Cluster Samples

Just as the controls the getting started and advanced cluster samples have got a new look & feel as well as new features, such as themes, additional inputs, improved graphics and many more.

ASTC texture compression

For improving rendering performance, bitmaps can now be converted to an ASTC texture compression feature allows to use limited or low-end embedded devices more efficient to create sophisticated HMIs, even on devices with limited memory bandwidth.

Minor Improvements

Besides the major improvements of our CGI Studio 3.9, we also improved minor issues, such as new settings for new solutions (e.g. dimensions, resolution, colors); quick-actions for the scene tree or improvements for the animation group.

Candera sponsors Future Mobility Cup

Very proud to be main sponsor of the Future Mobility Cup 2020, taking place in November 2020 in Linz / Austria. Four universities will compete against each other in an autonomous race in model cars on a scale of 1:8, which are equipped with the latest sensor technology.

The Cup was initially launched by FH-Wels, KTM Technologies and Heinz Hollerweger and is supported by the ICM and the automotive cluster and main cup sponsor Candera GmbH.

Autonomous race in model cars on a scale of 1:8

Agenda

12:45
Arrival and registration of the participants

13: 00-17: 00
Future Mobility Cup

17: 00-17: 15
Award ceremony

17: 15-20: 00
E-karting & networking, a cozy end to it

We’re inviting you to this exciting race. To register and learn more click here.

Candera at Embedded World 2020

As a leading international world fair with its exclusive focus on embedded technologies, the Embedded World Exhibition & Conference reflects the main trends of the sector. From 25th to 27th February, 2020 more than 900 exhibitors from all over the world showcased their products and services at the exhibition center in Nuremberg/Germany. Unfortunately, the corona situation also affected this fair resulting in a reduced overall number of visitors at the exhibition. However, especially on the second day the attendance of the Candera booth was quite good with high quality leads within the automotive, industrial and home appliances sector.

Candera was presenting a mix of innovative HMI solutions and technologies in the area of embedded HMI design – with novelties in the automotive and home appliances solutions. Highlights at the Candera booth were the „Holi Cluster & IVI Solution” and a newly developed Smart Oven UI.

Candera was presenting and exciting mix of innovative HMI solutions at its booth in hall 4.

Candera’s HMI solutions based on different targets like Kirin 960s (Android), NXP, Intel, Cypress and TI (from the left)

Holi HMI solution Candera‘s Holi solution, featuring a cluster and IVI solution, has been created with CGI Studio and is based on Linux and Renesas. It shows, how multiple displays are perfectly interacting and communicating with each other. This is possible due to Candera’s powerful messaging and data binding tool Courier Interaction Framework for smooth interaction between the HMI application and external data sources.

One of the highlights at the Candera booth: holistic cluster & IVI solution

Candera’s smart oven user interface with scan & bake app

Smart Oven User Interface

Based on CGI Studio Candera has developed an Android-based smart oven user interface. This full digital UI (with baking and cooking function) of a next generation’s oven, is not only particularly user-friendly and appealing, but has been expanded by a smart Scan & Bake app.The app installed on a conventional smartphone enables to scan the barcodes on the back of common food packaging (e.g. frozen product packaging for pizza, lasagna, etc.) and to transmit this data directly to the oven UI. After one scan the user can directly start the baking process or adjust the settings according to his/her personal choice. The advantage for the user is obvious: this smart UI-interface is particularly user-friendly and enables a quick and easy handling.

Functional safety, hypervisor and augmented reality

Additionally to the Holi HMI Candera was showcasing solutions based on innovative technologies like hypervisors, functional safety and augmented reality.