Monday, February 11, 2008

Omnivision Integrates EDoF onto Sensor Chip

Yahoo: Omnivision claimed a mobile handset industry first with the introduction of the OV3642, a 1/4-inch, 3MP SoC sensor with TrueFocus embedded on-chip. As I recall, Magnachip announced DxO EDoF integration a year ago, but it's certainly first such solution for Omnivision.

The OV3642 is built with OmniVision's new OmniPixel3-HS technology which is claimed to be double the sensitivity (960mV/Lux-sec) of other manufacturers' 1/4" 3MP SOC sensors. TrueFocus keeps focus from 20cm to infinity, both stills and video. The OV3642 also has AF support so it can be used in camera designs with fixed focus, TrueFocus and AF.

The Omnivision's sensor fits in a "biggish" 8.5mm by 8.5mm socket, while most of the competitors use 8mm by 8mm packages.

The OV3642 speed is 15fps in full resolution transferred over either a two lane MIPI interface, or a traditional parallel interface. It also has JPEG compression, OTP memory and ISP functions.

The OV3642 is currently available for customer sampling with volume production is expected in Q3 2008.

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