Abstract:Currently, in order to improve development efficiency and enhance portability, Java technology is paid more attention by image processing researchers. However, the Java virtual machine implemented by software, meaning low speed and poor real-time performance, can not meet the image processing demand of complex computations on performance. So a Java processor architecture implemented by hardware was presented, which can execute byte code directly, and the monitor and pre-processor were implemented at the same time, making up a complete test platform. The experimental results show that the efficiency of the platform is 860 times as the same as the Java virtual machine and applying Java processor to image processing for embedded systems would be a viable option.