Table 1.

Segmentation algorithm, time required to perform the operations and the real frame rate achieved.

Algorithm	Time (ms)	fps
Image copy from the FIFO to processor memory	40.30	10
Image reading from the FIFO + Threshold segmentation of 1 color layer [example: R > 16] + Result stored into processor memory	44.28	10
Image reading from the FIFO + RGB threshold segmentation [example: R > 16 & G < 55 & B < 12] + Result stored into processor memory	46.61	10
Image reading from the FIFO + RGB interval segmentation [ex.: 32 > R > 12 & 55 > G > 10 & 16 > B > 12] + Result stored into processor memory	52.23	10
Image reading from the FIFO + 64 KB LUT segmentation using the RGB565 16 bits value as an index [ex.: s = LUT(RGB565)] + Result stored into processor memory	44.41	10
Image reading from the FIFO + 8 KB LUT segmentation using 13 bits as a pointer and 3 bits as byte offset [ex.: s = LUT(RGB565(1:3), RGB565(4:16),)] + Result stored into processor memory	51.73	10
Image reading from the FIFO + 8 KB LUT segmentation using 13 bits as a pointer and 3 bits as byte offset [ex.: s = LUT(RGB565(1:3), RGB565(4:16),)] + Result stored into processor memory + Red Peach centroid computation	63.64	10
Image reading from the FIFO + Linear Color Model classification and segmentation (11 classes) + Result stored into processor memory	2,228.47	0.44