Thursday, April 15, 2010

A lot of pixels in a very small space


That’s what you get with the USB UI-1008XS camera from IDS. This little baby squeezes an 8Megapixel Sony CMOS sensor AND a DSP chip into a one inch cube. And if that’s not good enough for you, there’s an integrated lens with autofocus and even face detection.

Face detection? Yes, I scratched my head over that. I don’t have a lot of industrial applications that need face detection, but there again I tend not to use USB cameras in my applications. Could this be aimed at the security market?

By the way, if you don’t know IDS I would encourage you to visit their website, (which is where I lifted the photo of the diminutive 8Mp USB camera.) They have a fascinating range of USB and GigE camera offerings.

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