Automotive Camera Modules

• Customization Support: From Design to Mass Production
• Example of Custom Support: 5MP RGB-IR Automotive Camera

SMK entered the automotive camera market after handling EMS for mobile phone cameras. We have built a track record in the design and mass production of automotive cameras for customers in the United States and Japan. We have ISO9001- and IATF16949-certified factories, as well as factories that have passed VDA P1 audits, in Japan and various other locations worldwide. This allows us to meet diverse requirements such as delivery locations and mass-production quantities.

Customization Support: From Design to Mass Production

We offer integrated design and mass production services to meet various customization requests.

Custom Item

Optics Example

Image sensor resolution
MTF and angle of view of lens, water and dust resistance
CTF of image

Circuit Example

Power consumption
PoC or LVDS
EMC (CISPR25 Class 5)

Mechanism Example

Dimensions
Operating and storage temperature
Waterproof and dustproof

Our customization capabilities extend beyond optical, circuit, and mechanical design to include production equipment as well.

Production Equipment Example

Lens and image sensor positioning machine, final inspection machine

Requests Example

• Proposing solutions for heat generated by high-resolution, high-frame-rate image sensors
• Minimizing power consumption when using high-resolution, high-frame-rate image sensors
• Ensuring mass production quality in operating environments exceeding 105°C
• Achieving both waterproof/dustproof performance and miniaturization
• Balancing image quality retention with lens thickness reduction
• Identifying the cause of EMC noise detected in other companies' standard products and providing solutions
• Incorporating a microcontroller into the camera to perform distance measurement calculations
• Offering unique proposals using SMK's connector products
• Customizing mechatronics for lens/image sensor position adjustment equipment and final inspection equipment to ensure mass production quality
• Adjusting the white balance of color images

Comparison of white balance adjustment

Example of Custom Support: 5MP RGB-IR Automotive Camera

Many in-vehicle monitoring cameras output monochrome (IR) images, but this product outputs both monochrome (IR) and color (RGB) images simultaneously, both at 5MP high resolution.
There are very few examples of automotive cameras achieving simultaneous output*. With monochrome (IR) images, the eye positions of third-row rear-seat passengers can be identified.

• *

  According to SMK's research

Applications

In-vehicle monitoring (DMS, OMS), Day-and-night short-range exterior monitoring during low-speed driving and stopping