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Specification Features

Patrik Jakobsson edited this page Aug 31, 2015 · 1 revision

Specification / Features

The camera seems to be based on Ambarellas S2 series of IP cameras. Likely a nerfed version of the S2Lm. The power usage is said to be less than 500mW (is it possible to measure this from OSX somehow?).

S2Lm specifications

SoC

  • ARM Cortex A9
  • Ambarella image and video DSP
  • DDR3/DDR3L up to 528MHz (128-256MB @ 450MHz on MacBook Air 6,2)
  • 16-bit memory data bus
  • NAND flash (SLC with ECC)
  • Boot from SPI-NOR, SPI-EEPROM, NAND flash, USB or eMMC

Image processing

  • 3D motion compensated noise reduction (MCTF)
  • Adjustable AE/AWB/AF
  • Wide angle lens distortion compensation
  • High quality polyphase scalers
  • Digital PTZ and Virtual Cameras
  • OSD engine; overlays, privacy mask
  • Crop, mirror, flip, 90°/270° rotation
  • DC-iris and P-iris
  • Defect pixel correction
  • Chroma lens distortion correction
  • Gamma compensation and color enhancement
  • Backlight compensation

Video processing

  • H.264 codec BP/MP/HP Level 5.1 and MJPEG
  • 5 MPixels maximum resolution
  • 3M@30 fps encoding performance
  • Up to 4 simultaneous stream encodes
  • Smart-AVC low bitrate/high quality encoding
  • On-the-fly change of multiple encoding parameters
  • Flexible GOP configuration with I, P and B frames
  • Temporal Scalable Video Codec with 4 Layers (SVCT)
  • Dynamic region of interest
  • Multiple CBR and VBR rate control modes

Sensor and Video I/O

  • RGB Bayer sensor port: 8-lane SLVS/MIPI/HiSPI
  • 16-bit parallel
  • BT.601/656/1120 video in and BT.656/1120 out
  • 16-bit RGB out
  • PAL/NTSC composite SD video out

Front End Sensor Processing

  • 5 MPixels maximum resolution
  • 240 MHz maximum pixel rate
  • Lens shading, fixed pattern noise correction
  • Multi-exposure HDR (line-interleaved sensors)
  • WDR local exposure