Stretch, a developer of software configurable processors headquartered in a Sunnyvale, California, has expanded its range of S7000 processors with the IPCAM7110 IP Camera Reference Design Kit.
IPCAM7110
The Stretch Intelligent Encoder available in the IPCAM7120 and IPCAM7100 camera kits is featured in the IPCAM7110 to compress the video using the H.264 High Profile CODEC, thus producing streams at half the bit-rate of other solutions available in the market.
Stretch collaborated with Sony for integrating the processor with the 1080p IMX036 sensor. Providing a high resolution of 1080p at 60 fps, the small form factor design of the IPCAM7110 integrates the Sony IMX036 sensor with a single S7110 software configurable processor. The Sony sensor directly interfaces with the main board through the S7110’s configurable data ports to deliver impeccable video quality. The software-based ISP engine of S7110 integrates raw data and the Stretch Intelligent Encoder to implement the algorithms in order to improve the video quality and compress it.
The S7110 can perform several operations including tone mapping, 3D and 2D filtering to remove noise and improve operation in low light conditions, defective black level and pixel correction as well as color filter array interpolation.
The Director of product marketing at Stretch, Mark Oliver stated that the flexibility offered by the software based Image Signal Processing engine is demonstrated by the new IPCAM7110. Oliver also added that algorithms were modified based on the Sony sensor.
Stretch will be demonstrating the S7000 reference designs along with other cameras and image processors at the International Security Conference and Exposition being held at Las Vegas from 28th to 30th March, 2012.