DxO Labs Announces Availability of DxO IPE, the Industry's First Embedded Image Processing Solution (ISP) for Camera Phones with Built-in Enhanced Depth of Field (EDOF) and Optical Fault Correction

DxO Labs Announces Availability of DxO IPE, the Industry's First Embedded Image Processing Solution (ISP) for Camera Phones with Built-in Enhanced Depth of Field (EDOF) and Optical Fault Correction

November 28, 2007

Available as Silicon IP, DxO IPE solution leverages new
generation DxO programmable and configurable SIMD RTL core
optimized for on-the-fly image processing.

    PARIS, and MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Nov. 28
/Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- 

    DxO Labs announced today the availability of three new
embedded image processing solutions specifically designed
for camera phone applications and available as silicon IP
licensed to silicon vendors. These new solutions help
mobile phone designers overcome the limitations of ever
shrinking pixels used in high resolution, small form factor
camera modules. This is accomplished by merging the best
digital optics technology, also known as enhanced depth of
field or EDoF, with industry-best image processing
technology, including anti-aliasing demosaicing, sensor and
pixel level noise compensation and DSC-class auto exposure
and auto white balance.

    The three new offerings are the DxO IPE, DxO ISP and
DxO DOP families of solutions. The DxO IPE family of
solutions combines the newest digital optics technology
which supports low light lens designs, enhanced
depth-of-field designs and low profile lens designs with
DSC-class image signal processing for the best overall low
light imaging performance available. The DxO ISP family
provides DSC-class image processing without the digital
optics implementation; and the DxO DOP family provides the
digital optics processing without the image processing
functions.

    All of the solutions are implemented using DxO's
proprietary, highly configurable and programmable SIMD
processor core and are extremely power, space and form
factor efficient. Due to the flexibility of the
architecture, the solutions are available in several
configurations to support resolution from 1.3MP to 12MP.
The solutions are available to be embedded on CMOS imaging
sensor chips, on companion chips inside camera modules, or
on baseband or application processor chips.

    "Despite the performance limitations of today's
ever shrinking pixels, we believe that with the application
of DxO imaging technologies in embedded platforms such as
camera phones, image quality equivalent to that of digital
still cameras can be achieved," said Jerome Meniere,
CEO of DxO Labs. "Through our investment in building
RTL and silicon design capabilities within DxO, we are now
able to offer these technologies to customers seeking to
embed them in CMOS image sensors, multi-media processors
and other SoCs in a complete, proven RTL solution for easy
integration and rapid time-to-market."
    
    With the purchase of a license and royalty contract,
DxO Labs will deliver the following:

    -- A system level, bit-accurate C model for the RTL and
microcode;

    -- A hardware integration guide including external
interfaces (hardware 
       I/F, timing, registers & memories);

    -- Configured RTL (obfuscated structural Verilog) with
100% coverage;

    -- Verification coverage and guidelines (including
documentation,    
       verification vectors and tools for integration);

    -- Recommended chip test methodology; 

    -- A software integration guide including
Microcontroller firmware and 
       library description;

    -- Microcontroller firmware and library;

    -- One lens design which when mated to the system
hardware meets the 
       optical system specifications (for DxO DOP and DxO
IPE families only);

    -- Support for chip specification, RTL integration and
verification, 
       firmware integration and verification, chip backend,
system level 
       verification, lens sample manufacturing and
verification, chip 
       verification and image quality tuning; 

    -- Upon receipt of first samples, DxO Labs will also
performance a lens 
       and sensor system calibration. This calibration
testing results in the 
       creation of additional binaries (codes and data) for
ROM or RAM 
       integration for the final camera module using the
mated lens.


    The solutions are available for immediate integration
into customer chip designs. More information on the
solutions can be found at
http://www.dxo.com/intl/embedded_imaging or by email at
[e-mail]. 

    About DxO Labs 

    DxO Labs offers products and solutions ensuring
excellence in digital imaging. DxO Labs develops and
licenses intellectual property serving the entire digital
imaging chain:  licensing silicon architectures for
embedded still and video image processing; image quality
evaluation and measurement tools and methodologies; image
quality enhancement software for consumers. The company's
key customers and partners include:
    
    -- Consumer electronics manufacturers such as digital
camera vendors and 
       camera phone vendors;

    -- Imaging components suppliers: camera module
manufacturers, sensor 
       vendors, and processor vendors;

    -- Demanding photographers, as well as photography
journalists and 
       imaging experts.

    DxO Labs' product portfolio is steadily finding a place
at the heart of advanced consumer electronics and
world-class industry imaging systems where "Image
Science by DxO" becomes a reference for quality. 

    For more information on the company, visit DxO Labs
online at http://www.dxo.com

    DxO is a registered trademark of DxO Labs. Other
trademarks and trade names may be used in this document to
refer to either the entities claiming the marks and names
or their products. DxO Labs disclaims any proprietary
interest in trademarks and trade names other than its own.


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