SoC HD Camera for Home Entertainment

and Portable Media Markets

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The OV9740 is a 1/6.9-inch system-on-a-chip (SoC) CMOS

image sensor designed for highly demanding video applications

in portable media players (PMPs), home entertainment devices

and notebooks. It is the first 720p HD SoC image sensor that

meets the premium video quality criteria for Microsoft® Office

Communicator and the High Quality Video specifications for

Skype™. With all image quality tuning and processing done

on-chip, the OV9740 enables customers to simplify product

development and accelerate time-to-market, making the SoC

sensor a cost effective, one-stop-shop solution for emerging

consumer applications including notebooks, netbooks,

webcams, gaming consoles, portable media players, mobile

phones, smart phones, TVs and set-top boxes.

The OV9740 combines OmniVision's 1.75-micron OmniBSI™

backside illumination pixel architecture and high-end image

signal processor (ISP) to deliver 720p native high-definition

(HD) video at 30 frames per second. The OV9740 offers

best-in-class low-light sensitivity at 1300 mV/lux-sec in an

ultra-thin camera module height of less than 3.2 mm. As a native

HD sensor, the OV9740 does not suffer from degradation or

image artifacts due to scaling or cropping, which is typically

used to achieve HD resolution from larger array sensors.

OmniVision's ISP features high-end image processing functions

such as advanced automatic white balance and color noise

reduction in the YUV domain while maintaining high frequency

details delivering clear, sharp still image and video capture.

Additional advanced image processing functions include

automatic exposure control, automatic gain control, auto black

level calibration, gamma correction, defect pixel correction,

edge enhancement, and lens correction, which are all

programmable through a standard serial camera control bus

(SCCB) interface. A dual-lane, high speed MIPI interface

supports RAW RGB and YUV422 output formats.

Find out more at www.ovt.com.