Lowest power image sensor family for smart home and office

onsemi has introduced the Hyperlux LP image sensor family, ideal for industrial and commercial cameras such as smart doorbells, security cameras, AR/VR/XR headsets, machine vision and video conferencing. These 1.4µm pixel sensors provide industry-leading image quality and low power consumption while maximising performance to capture crisp, vibrant images even in difficult lighting conditions.

The product family also offers a stacked architecture design that minimises its footprint and approaches the size of a grain of rice at its smallest, making it ideal for devices where size is critical. Depending on the use case, customers can choose between the 5MP AR0544, the 8MP AR0830 or the 20MP AR2020.

The family is packed with features and proprietary technologies that optimise performance and resolution, including:

Wake on motion enables the sensors to operate in a low-power mode that draws a fraction of the power needed in the full-performance mode. Once the sensor detects movement, it moves to a higher performance state in less time than it takes to snap a photo.

Smart ROI supplies more than one ROI to give a context view of the scene at reduced bandwidth and a separate ROI in original detail.

The NIR performance delivers superior image quality due to the innovative silicon design and pixel architecture, with minimal supplemental lighting.

The low power reduces thermal noise, which negatively impacts image quality and eradicates the necessity for heat sinks, decreasing the overall cost of the vision system.

“By leveraging our superior analog design and pixel architecture, our sensors elevate the two most important elements people consider when buying a device, picture quality and battery life. Our new image sensor family delivers performance that matters with a significantly increased battery life and exquisite, highly detailed images,” said Ross Jatou, senior vice president and general manager, Intelligent Sensing Group, onsemi.

As well as smart home devices, one of the other applications the family can improve is the office meeting experience with more intuitive, seamless videoconferencing solutions.

“Our video collaboration solutions require high-quality image sensors that bring together multiple factors for the best user experience. The superior optical performance, innovative features and extremely low power consumption of the Hyperlux LP image sensors enable us to deliver a completely immersive virtual meeting experience in highly intelligent and optimised videoconferencing systems,” said Ashish Thanawala, senior director of Systems Engineering, Owl Labs.