The OV2640 is the world’s first 1/4 inch 2 megapixel sensor. It’s a fully integrated CameraChip™ built on OmniVision’s latest 2.2 micron OmniPixel2™ architecture and can be assembled in the very popular 8 x 8 mm sockets with a building height as low as 5 mm, essentially thinner than today’s 1.3 megapixel camera modules. This optimal sensor size, coupled with an embedded compression engine, allows customers to use the same camera interface bandwidth as they have used with their 1.3 mega pixel sensors, making it very easy to upgrade their current platforms to the OV2640’s 2 megapixel solution without hardware or mechanical changes.

product features
■ high sensitivity for low-light operation
■ embedded compression engine supporting most common compression formats
■ output support for Raw RGB, RGB (RGB565/555), GRB422, YUV (422/420) and YCbCr (4:2:2) formats
■ supports image sizes: UXGA, SXGA, SVGA, and any size scaling down from SXGA to 40x30
■ VarioPixel® for increased sensitivity when sub-sampling
■ automatic image control functions including automatic exposure control (AEC), automatic gain control (AGC), automatic white balance (AWB), automatic band filter (ABF), and automatic black-level calibration (ABLC)
■ image quality controls including color saturation, gamma, sharpness (edge enhancement), lens correction, white pixel canceling, noise canceling, 50/60 Hz luminance detection and variable frame rate control

applications
■ cell and camera phones
■ toys
■ PC multimedia
■ digital still cameras