IMX378¶

Sony’s IMX378 is a 12MP (4056x3040) rolling shutter color image sensor. It’s used in almost all of our products (OAK-D, OAK-D S2 OAK-D Pro, OAK-D-PoE, OAK-D S2 PoE, etc.) as the color camera.

Supported resolutions¶

Supported sensor resolution by depthai¶
Name	Resolution	Max FPS	MIPI lanes
THE_12_MP	4056x3040	30 FPS	2
THE_4_K	3840 x 2160	30 FPS	2
THE_1080_P	1920x1080	60 FPS	2

FFC compatibility¶

With OAK FFC boards you can easily evaluate different sensors and optics, as you can connect FFC camera boards to any OAK FFC baseboard (OAK-FFC-4P, OAK-FFC-3P) via a flexible cable. FFC camera boards are carrier boards for the CCM (additional information below), so it can easily be connected to any OAK FFC baseboard. The following FFC camera boards contain this sensor:

OAK-FFC-IMX378

From left to right: OAK-FFC-IMX378, OAK-FFC-IMX378 (Arducam short FPC), OAK-FFC-IMX378-W¶

Sensor CCMs¶

Compact camera modules (CCMs) can be integrated directly into a custom product. CCMs are used in the final camera product. CCMs vary in optics and FPC connector. The following CCMs have been built using this sensor:

Sunny style long FPC:
- NFOV (AF/FF) - 81° DFOV, 69° HFOV, 55° VFOV
Arducam short FPC:
- NFOV AF (PY004) - 78° DFOV, 66° HFOV, 54° VFOV, EFL: 4.81, F. NO: 1.8±5%, Distortion: < 1%, Lens Size: 1/2.3”
- NFOV FF (PY052) - 82° DFOV, 69° HFOV, 55° VFOV, EFL: 4.74, F. NO: 1.8±5%, Distortion: < 1.5%, Lens Size: 1/2.3”
- WFOV FF (PY060) - 120° DFOV, 108° HFOV, 93° VFOV, EFL: 2.75, F. NO: 2.8±5%, Distortion: < -14.6%, Lens Size: 1/2.3”

On the image above (OAK FFC board) you can see all 3 different IMX378 CCMs.

Image quality comparison¶

Here’s an image comparison between different image sensors captured from OAK-FFC-3P. For more information, see Improving Image Quality docs.

IMX214 (13MP color sensor), IMX378 (12MP color sensor), IMX582 (48MP color sensor)

Click on the image for the unencoded full-resolution sensor comparison image. Note that these images are about 8x digitally zoomed, and you can find full-resolution uncropped frames here (300 MB). Image specifications: Grocery items are at 4m, 33LUX, sensitivity 100ISO. Images were taken at 200ms,300ms,400ms,500ms exposure and combined with an HDR script (on the host). OAK Series 3 cameras will have native HDR support on the camera itself.