CHENNAI, India and ST LOUIS: e-con Systems announces its Android camera driver for its e-CAM50_OMAP35x camera add-on board as it interfaces with OMAP evaluation board housing OV5642 camera sensor. e-CAM50_OMAP35x connects to the high speed CMOS sensor interface of the TI OMAP35x offering tremendous processing power through the superscalar ARM Cortex-A8 core running at 600MHz. e-con has developed a camera driver and integrated it to the camera subsystem of Android offering a better picture quality and perfect lossless compression involving best quality in the process of compression.

"By integrating our standard V4L2 Linux camera driver with Android Camera HAL layer, e-con is proud to offer complete ready-to-use camera solution for our Android customers", said Ashok Babu, President, e-con Systems. "This allows our Android customers to use the default camera application of Android as it is, and removes a significant amount of effort in developing custom camera application using V4L2 APIs, thereby reducing the time-to-market", he added.

Android's camera subsystem connects the camera application to the application framework and user space libraries, which in turn communicate with the camera hardware layer that operates the physical camera. By integrating the e-con Linux camera driver onto Android, e-con has enabled Android camera application to take advantage of the camera hardware and use all the features of the camera application provided in FroYo Distribution.

About Android

Android was first released by Google in November 2007. Android has much to offer for developers in embedded applications beyond phones. Choosing Android as an OS for embedded devices will provide tens of millions of handsets run essentially the same Android stack, allowing access to huge pools of users finding bugs, and a large developer community dedicated to fixing them.

Availability

e-CAM50_OMAP35x development kit is currently available and customers who would want to evaluate the Android driver, can choose to buy the e-CAM50_OMAP35x development kit from the website. More information regarding the development kit is on e-con's website ( http://www.e-consystems.com/5MP_hdcamera_omap.asp).

About e-con Systems

e-con Systems, is an embedded product design and development company offering services like Hardware Design, Firmware design / Embedded Software development, Board Design and Software Integration in various product domains with OS focus on Android, Linux, Windows Embedded CE and Windows Mobile.

    
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