Mitsubishi Electric Develops Industry's Thinnest 2 Megapixel CCD Camera Module.TOKYO -- Mitsubishi Electric Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (三菱電機株式会社 Corporation (President and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. : Tamotsu Nomakuchi) has developed a 2 megapixel CCD camera module which is a mere 7.42mm wide, making it the industry's thinnest (as of May 30, 2004). Sample shipments will be available during July 2004, at a unit price of 15,000 yen (FOB FOB 1) adj. short for Free on Board, meaning shipped to a specific place without cost. 2) Friend of Bill (Clinton). (See: Free on Board) Japan), while mass production will start in September 2004. As the domestic Japanese and overseas markets for mobile phones with cameras continues to grow, so too do the camera's megapixel capacities. In order to increase megapixel capacity and enable mobile phone handsets to be made thinner, we used the technological expertise and know-how gained from our module development to date to achieve the industry's thinnest 2 megapixel CCD camera module. The module features an advanced optical design and the latest mounting technology. The "super CCD honey cam" (registered trademark of Fuji Photo Film, Inc.) makes it highly sensitive and capable of producing high quality images, even in dark places with low illumination. The CCD CCD in full charge-coupled device Semiconductor device in which the individual semiconductor components are connected so that the electrical charge at the output of one device provides the input to the next device. image sensor, power supply and signal processing LSI LSI: see integrated circuit. (Large Scale Integration) Between 3,000 and 100,000 transistors on a chip. See SSI, MSI, VLSI and ULSI. were all integrated into the module, reducing the space it requires in the mobile phone handset and allowing the handset to be thinner. The 2 megapixel CCD camera module is of the same size and interface as the Mitsubishi Electric 1.3 megapixel CCD camera module, providing customers with greater choice, depending on their requirements. Each individual module allows for fine control of the AE (automatic exposure) and AWB See House Air Waybill. (automatic white balance) functions. The shutterless camera is highly smear-tolerant(1), and reproduces color in a natural and lifelike manner. Selection of an 8-bit or 16-bit digital interface(2) is also possible, plus the flexible printed circuit (FPC fpc - A translator from Backus's FP to C. ftp://apple.com/comp.sources.Unix/Volume20. ) can be customized in accordance with the customer's wishes.
Fig.1: Main Specifications
Item Specification
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Model Name CM041
Specification image sensor CCD image sensor
Optical size (inches) 1/3.8 type super CCD honey cam
Number of recorded pixels 1616 x 1212 (2 million)
Pixel size (micrometers) 3.25 x 3.25
Power supply 3.6V/2.9V/1.8V
Module dimensions (h x l x w) 11.1mm x 21.8mm x 7.42mm
Power consumption 290mW
Lens composition Three pieces
Frame rate 20 fps
Major functions - automatic exposure
- automatic white balance adjustment
- output picture size adjustment
- color interpolation, gray level
correction
- color difference matrix conversion
- degree compensation of image quality
- defective pixel compensation
Additional features - macro function
- single module contains an electric
wave and signal processing LSI
About Mitsubishi Electric With over 80 years of experience in providing reliable, high-quality products to both corporate clients and general consumers all over the world, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (TSE See Tokyo Stock Exchange. TSE 1. See Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE). 2. See Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE). :6503) is a recognized world leader in the manufacture, marketing and sales of electrical and electronic equipment used in information processing and communications, space development and satellite communications, consumer electronics, industrial technology, energy, transportation and building equipment. The company recorded consolidated group sales Group sales Block sale (of large amounts) of securities to institutional investors. group sales The distribution of a new security issue to institutional clients. of 3,309 billion yen (US$31.2 billion*) in the year ended March 31, 2004. For more information visit http://global.mitsubishielectric.com. 1: Smear: luminescence luminescence, general term applied to all forms of cool light, i.e., light emitted by sources other than a hot, incandescent body, such as a black body radiator. that may appear in the upper and lower extents of the photo when photographing a bright object. 2: Digital interface: in the format of an image data output the digital interface is Y:Cb:Cr4:2:2, where Y is luminosity luminosity, in astronomy, the rate at which energy of all types is radiated by an object in all directions. A star's luminosity depends on its size and its temperature, varying as the square of the radius and the fourth power of the absolute surface temperature. and Cb and Cr represent color difference data. *At an exchange rate of 106 yen to the US dollar, the rate given by the Tokyo Foreign Exchange Market on March 31, 2004. |
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