Smart camera SoC system for interactive real-time real-brush based digital painting systems

Advanced digital paint systems, based on accurate simulation models for the paint, brush and canvas interaction enable a virtual painting environment familiar to artists, but also allow for new ways of expressivity. The new FluidPaint co-located real-brush-input & canvas-display systems put extremely high demands on the real-time image processing and the reaction time between brush strokes and the rendering of the painting result on the screen. A new Smart Camera System-on-Chip (SoC) architecture is presented enabling real-time input of brush-strokes with real brushes in the FluidPaint digital painting system.