The development of digital camera systems for professionals is one of our core competences. High resolution and features like high dynamics, color depth as well as fast data handling and integrated processing feature these cameras on the basis of CMOS senors.

Digital High Speed Cameras for Industry and Movies (SpeedCam)
In order to shoot millisecond-events and to analyse them afterwards digital high speed cameras are developed in the department Electronic Imaging. With 1,000 - 10,000 frames per second processes can be recorded with a format of 1536 x 1024 pixels and a color depth of 32bit.

High Speed for Medical Applications (Endocam)
A digital high speed camera systems for endoscopic examinations was developed for Richard Wolf GmbH to automatize the diagnosis of functional vocal distortions. Core of this camera system is a CMOS Active Pixel Sensor with 4,000 frames per seconds.

Digital Film-Style Movie Camera (ARRI D20)
The concept and the development of digital movie cameras and suitable methods for data compression are main focus of the Fraunhofer IIS. Fraunhofer got a world-wide expertise within Digital Cinema with the DCI-specification test plan. For ARRI, Munich we are developing the ARRIFLEX D20 camera - a digital 6 megapixel filmstyle-camera which combines all advantages of movie cameras with digital technology. The ARRIFLEX D20 is already used for film shooting and commercials.

MicroHDTV Camera
is a very small multi-format HDTV camera with two HDSDI-outputs and parameter adjustment via ethernet. With a CMOS-Sensor of 1080 x 720 Pixels/60 Hz this camera design can be used for broadcast applications and for security applications. MicroHDTV is also a top-choice for the use in 3D, panoramic or multi-view settings.

Research on Cognitive Cameras
The concept for a cognitive camera comprises fast and intelligent processing, means self-adoption of the analyzing algorithms to new requirements and reconfigurable hardware. Embedded Imaging Technologies is the term for the integration of smart algorithms directly within a camera system. Cooperating with the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Hardware-Software CoDesign high-performing further research on algorithms and components is done.

Research on Camera and Sensor Technology
Current research on image enhancement and image quality is done within the fields of color correction and color management. The design of CMOS image sensors, sensor architecture (checker board sensors) as well as projects for sensor characterization are done by our research teams.