Silicon Image announces 12MP camera processor

Silicon Image, Inc. has announced the availability of its 12 megapixel camera processor IP core, which will bring digital still camera functionality to mobile devices.

The 12 megapixel camera processor IP core is designed for integration into system-on-a-chip (SoC) semiconductors, for use in mobile phones, portable multimedia players, ultra mobile PCs and security cameras.

Five mobile phone SoC suppliers have already licensed versions of the technology, which enables mobile devices to produce images with the same resolution and colour quality as standalone cameras.

The image signal processor supports JPEG encoding, image scaling, continuous digital zoom, auto exposure, autofocus, lens shade correction, chromatic aberration correction, bad pixel detection and correction and image stabilisation.

Silicon Image’s power-efficient 12MP camera IP core design features a lower gate count, a smaller die size requiring less space on a baseband processor, faster picture processing and compatibility with any complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) sensor.

The technology can be integrated into any mobile device with a camera lens and CMOS sensor to take both still and moving pictures at a rate of up to 30 frames per second, providing professional-quality images.