From: Sjouke Burry on
Bates wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Recently I purchased a small alarm clock with a hidden camera and motion
> detector embedded just to see how it works. It stores the video on a small
> MMC card and 1GB holds about 20 mins of footage. Upon evaluation I found a
> small 640 x 480 camera module connected to an STK1262 controller from
> Syntek. This controller compresses the image to be stored on the MMC. I
> have been unable to find a similar IC that will convert raw video and
> compress it to JPEG/MPEG and Syntek are one of those Chinese companies that
> seem very hard to deal with.
>
> I was wondering if anyone out there has had any experience with this sort of
> concept and could recommend some IC's for me to look at. The simpler the
> better, I'm not interested in high resolution right now
>
> Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Best regards
>
>
> Adrian Hamilton
>
butcher an optical mouse, that has a ~16*16 pixel camera and some
logic to detect motion.
From: JB on

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> "JB" <nil(a)spam.net> wrote in message
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>> "Bates" <brassdoggy(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Recently I purchased a small alarm clock with a hidden camera and motion
>>> detector embedded just to see how it works. It stores the video on a
>>> small MMC card and 1GB holds about 20 mins of footage. Upon evaluation
>>> I found a small 640 x 480 camera module connected to an STK1262
>>> controller from Syntek. This controller compresses the image to be
>>> stored on the MMC. I have been unable to find a similar IC that will
>>> convert raw video and compress it to JPEG/MPEG and Syntek are one of
>>> those Chinese companies that seem very hard to deal with.
>>>
>>> I was wondering if anyone out there has had any experience with this
>>> sort of concept and could recommend some IC's for me to look at. The
>>> simpler the better, I'm not interested in high resolution right now
>>>
>>> Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.
>>>
>> Conexant CX93510. Very, very useful part.
>>
>> JB
>
>
> Thanks JB and others for your reply,
>
> I have stumbled across the Conexant CX93510 in my searches. Have you have
> any experience with this IC. Can I ask what you project involved?
>
>
Unfortunately I cannot reveal any details regarding our project with this
device due to NDA restrictions. Sorry.
Conexant tech/application support for thisdevice is however, excellent.
There is a superb eval kit available also. Speak to the manufacturers.
Regds.
JB