A Californian chipset manufacturer has announced a new image processor designed for consumer cameras. The video orientated core named COACH-14 is designed for hybrid interchangeable lens cameras like DSLRs.
Previous third party chipsets like the COACH 12 and 13 by Zoran are already in many Fuji, Olympus, Nikon, Samsung and Sony cameras. According to the company the new video core is already being designed into multiple camera models that are planned for production in Q1 2012.
They also say COACH 14 tackles moire and rolling shutter.
The 1080p video sometimes suffers from video artifacts introduced by the in-sensor binning of the high-megapixel sensor data. Zoran’s COACH 14 SoC is said to eliminate this problem by processing the raw sensor data to create a crisp, full resolution, full-color video stream. The Zoran COACH 14 has CMOS Rolling-Shutter Correction Technology to reduce jello.
That is similar technology to the A77’s new Bionz chip. Goodbye rolling shutter.
What Zoran call a Motion Compensated Temporal Filter also reduces noise and improves low-light performance. The camera chipset will support 3D.
In addition it supports new lens correct technologies, HDMI 1.4 output and electronic image stabilisation.
As well as video features the chipset has the brute force to benefit stills and overall camera performance with hardware graphics acceleration of the UI and touch screen and a multi-core processor.
