Strategy Analytics’ latest Automated Vehicle Services (AVS) report, “Automotive Cameras: More Demand, More Performance,” analyzes the latest trends in automotive camera technology and market deployment.
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In the 2022 BMW 3 Series sedan, the new Mobileye EyeQ5 Mid chip features a single front-facing windshield camera with an 8-megapixel image sensor and a wide 120-degree field of view. This marks the end of Mobileye’s trifocal camera module, which has three separate cameras with lower resolution and different fields of view.
“Recent NCAP requirements ensure earlier detection of vulnerable road users and more accurate and reliable classification of objects in the field of view. The move behind the integration of front windshield cameras will allow OEMs to Customers to reduce hardware costs. But to achieve this increase in camera resolution, smaller pixel sizes are required. This reduces the amount of light the image sensor can receive, making low-light operation more challenging. Therefore, the resolution is the key to automotive Where cameras lag behind consumer electronics and mobile applications.”
Higher resolution also means tighter mechanical tolerances in the design of automotive cameras. Technologies have been developed to ensure that increased camera performance does not come at the expense of operating in the more challenging environments encountered in cars while being able to process higher levels of data and enhance objects by adding artificial intelligence perception.
