This isn't so much a 3D Recognition chip as it is a 3D Preprocessor chip. All it's doing it generating left-right (and probably right-left) difference maps and then edge detecting in that data to tag objects in the field of view. There's no actual recognition of what's been found in the result, so the chip wouldn't know whether it's seeing a vase, a human or a shark with lasers. This isn't really anything new, since there's been a few FPGA-based solutions doing this in hardware for years, usually with Firewire cameras. Probably just a bad translation of the original Japanese release.
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