Pixim's New 32mm Reference Board Camera
January 10, 2008
From: CCTViNFO.com
Brings enterprise-class features to compact security camera applications ~ Delivers uncompromised image quality in a very small form factor
Pixim Inc, a leading provider of image sensors and processors for
enterprise security cameras, announced the new BDA-2500-32, a 32mm
Reference Board Camera, intended to speed time-to-market for security
camera developers creating products for compact applications, such as
small dome cameras.
The highly compact reference design (measuring only 32mm square, an
industry-standard dimension for CCTV board cameras) enables product
designers, for the first time, to develop very small cameras with
extremely high-quality features and performance.
John Monti, vice president of marketing and business development for
Pixim said: "Traditionally, camera designers making security cameras
for tight spaces did not have the option of delivering high-quality
image capture performance. This reference design represents a real
breakthrough by bringing enterprise-class functionality, such as wide
dynamic range, natural color, and greater varifocal lens capabilities,
to extremely small applications"
Security cameras based on the BDA-2500-32 reference design are ideally
suited for small dome and embedded applications, including
installations in taxis, police cars, buses, light rail, trains, yachts,
elevators, above cash registers, behind hotel registration counters ~
and other places where space is at a premium or the cameras need to be
unobtrusive. For comparison, the BDA-2500-32 design takes up less than
half the volume of Pixim’s 38mm reference board camera, the BDB-2500-38.
The BDA-2500-32 reference design allows highly compact and low-cost
cameras to take full advantage of the all of Pixim’s Orca chipsets
(D1400, D1500, D1600 and D2500), providing key features such as
ultra-wide dynamic range (WDR), high resolution, accurate color
rendering, lack of image artifacts and high image compression.
Compact security cameras based on the BDA-2500-32 reference board
camera have access to all Pixim Orca chipset features, including
advanced exposure controls, multiple automatic white balance modes, AC
line lock, an on-screen display with push-button or remote control of
menus, extensive WDR controls, composite video output, activity
detection alarms, digital pan-tilt-zoom (PTZ) controls and true
day/night control functionality for mechanical IR filter switchers. In
addition, the new reference design permits the use of longer
focal-length lenses, such as 9-22mm varifocal lenses, to provide
telephoto functions for the first time in compact dome cameras.
The Orca chipsets are based on Pixim's award-winning Digital Pixel
System® (DPS) technology, an image capture and processing innovation
that yields the highest image quality for security camera applications.
With DPS technology, each pixel of a digital image is individually
optimized to show image details and accurate color in both shadow and
bright light, simultaneously. As a result, Pixim-powered security
cameras are able to deliver usable, actionable images in even the most
challenging lighting conditions.
