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Optoelectronic Sensors, Switches and Receivers
News Release from: OmniVision | Subject: OV76
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 14 February 2008
Handset sensor comes with the smallest
of claims
Thirteenth-inch VGA sensor delivers almost double the sensitivity and low-light performance of other low-cost sensors.
Unveiled at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the OV7690 is billed as the world's smallest VGA CameraChip sensor The new thirteenth-inch VGA sensor features the newest generation of OmniVision's proprietary pixel architecture, OmniPixel3-HS, which delivers almost double the sensitivity and low-light performance (960mV/lux-s) of other low-cost sensors
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 21 Feb 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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OmniVision Technologies has released its first CameraChip based on the Standard Mobile Imaging Architecture introduced by Nokia and STMicroelectronics in January 2004.
Handset image sensors enter volume production
OmniVision Technologies has started volume production and shipments of its OV7670 VGA and OV9655 1.3Mpixel CameraChips.
The OV7690's new 1.75um OmniPixel3-HS architecture combined with a novel nonlinear micro-lens-shift technology allows for a significant reduction in distance between the sensor and the lens, and thus enables OmniVision to significantly reduce the module height while maintaining the highest levels of image quality and camera performance.
The result is an ultrathin camera module of just 4.5 x 4.5 x 2.8mm, a critical characteristic both for slim camera phones and for notebook applications where the camera module can be no thicker than the LCD housing.
"With the VGA camera market still experiencing solid growth and showing even further growth potential, we developed this VGA sensor with our most advanced production pixel technology", says Bruce Weyer, OmniVision's Vice President of Marketing.
"Emerging markets offer huge potential for entry-level camera phones, while mature markets look to use the OV7690 for secondary cameras in high-end handsets and integrated laptop cameras".
"The OV7690 is a great camera solution for mobile handsets and laptop computers that want excellent image quality from a very small VGA sensor, and we believe that the OV7690 will help us increase our leadership position in the VGA market segment".
The OV7690 comes in a newly developed chip scale package (CSP3) which further improves device reliability and reduces system height.
The OV7690 is currently available for sampling, and OmniVision expects to begin volume production in Q3 2008.
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