Inno CAM-MIPI327RAW Pi Industrial Camera Module User Manual

Inno CAM-MIPI327RAW Pi Industrial Camera Module

Product Information

The CAM-MIPI327RAW is a low-cost fisheye lens camera module designed for use with Raspberry Pi boards (P4/Pi3B+/PI3A+/PI3/CM3/CM3+). It features the IMX327LQR-C image sensor which has a diagonal of 6.46 mm (Type 1/2.8), a square pixel array, and 2.13 M effective pixels. The chip operates with analog 2.9 V, digital 1.2 V, and interface 1.8 V triple power supply, and has low power consumption. The module supports CSI-2 output with 2 lanes/RAW10 or RAW12 and comes with a wide-angle lens with Fov(D)=148 degrees and Fov(H)=118 degrees. The focal distance is adjustable and the module is capable of high sensitivity, low dark current, and no smear.

Features

• Industrial Camera Module for Raspberry Pi 4,3B+ 3B, 3A+ CM3+, CM3, Pi zero
• Sensor Type: STARVIS IMX327LQR Color CMOS Active Pixel type Solid-state Image Sensor with Square Pixel Array 2.13 M Effective Pixels
• Pixel count: 1920×1080
• Supports V4L2 and libcamera
• Comes with user manual, test demo and friendly technology support
• Custom design service available

Hardware Description The CAM-MIPI327RAW module connects directly to the CSI connector on the Raspberry Pi board. It has a field of view of Fov(D)=148 degrees and Fov(H)=118 degrees. The focal length and distance are adjustable. It weighs approximately ____ and the still resolution is ____. It supports Linux integration and has a high S/N ratio and dynamic range.

Sensor

• Sensor Resolution: ____
• Sensor image area: ____
• Pixel size: ____
• Optical size: ____
• TV DISTORTION F(N) /Aperture: ____

Product Usage Instructions

1. Connect the CAM-MIPI327RAW module to the CSI connector on your Raspberry Pi board.
2. If necessary, adjust the focal length and distance of the lens for your specific application.
3. Install any necessary software drivers or libraries for your operating system.
4. Use the supported V4L2 or libcamera interface to access the camera module and capture images or video.
5. Refer to the user manual and test demo for additional guidance on using this product.

General

• CAM-MIPI327RAW is a low-cost fisheye Lens excellent low illumination and wide dynamic camera module, designed for whole series Raspberry(P4/Pi3B+/PI3A+/PI3/CM3/CM3+). Plug into the CSI-2 Pi camera interface directly.
• On-board IMX327LQR-C is a diagonal 6.46 mm (Type 1/2.8) CMOS active pixel type solid-state image sensor with a square pixel array and 2.13 M effective pixels. This chip operates with analog 2.9 V, digital 1.2 V, and interface 1.8 V triple power supply, and has low power consumption. High sensitivity, low dark current and no smear are achieved through the adoption of R, G and B primary color mosaic filters. This chip features an electronic shutter with variable charge integration time.

Features

1. Raspberry Pi Camera CAM-MIPI327RAW is an Industrial Camera Module for Raspberry Pi 4,3B+ 3B, 3A+ CM3+, CM3, Pi zero.
2. Sensor Type: STARVIS IMX327LQR Color CMOS Active Pixel type Solid-state Image Sensor with Square Pixel Array 2.13 M Effective Pixels. Diagonal 6.46 mm (Type 1/2.8). Pixel count: 1920×1080. High to
3. This IMX327LQR module connects to the CSI connector on the Raspberry Pi directly. CSI-2 output: 2 lanes/RAW10 or RAW12. Support V4L2 and libcamera.
4. Match a wide-angle Lens. Fov(D)=148 degrees, Fov(H)=118 degrees. The focal distance is adjustable.
5. Comes with a user manual, test demo and friendly technical support. We offer custom design services.

Hardware Description

Features|
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Size| 39mm x 39mm
Weight| 4g
Still Resolution| 2.07M pixels
Video Modes| 1920×1080 60fps, SRGGB10P
Linux integration| V4L2

Libcamera

Sensor| IMX327LQR-C
Sensor Resolution| 1920 (H) × 1080 (V)
Sensor image area| 5568 µm (H)*3132 µm (V)
Pixel size| 2.9 µm (H) × 2.9 µm (V)
Optical size| 1/2.8″
S/N ratio| 55dB
Dynamic range| 120db
Output interface| global shutter
Output formats| RAW10/RAW12
Field of view| Fov(D) = 148 degrees , Fov(H) = 118 degrees
Focal Length| 2.8 mm
Focal Distance| Adjustable
TV DISTORTION| <-17%
F(N) /Aperture| 2.2

Size

PCB Size

Len Size

Connection Of The Hardware

Pin-Out

Signal/Power Connector J

The J1 pin map is same Raspberry Pi camera.

Using Raspbian Build-In Driver

Load Raspberry Pi image
Prepare a capacity of more than 8GB TF card(16Gb Class10 is better) and a card reader. Load the image file on to the SD card, using the instructions provided on the Raspberry Pi website for Linux,

Mac or PC:
https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/installation/installing- images/README.md

Raspbian Image download:
https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/

Driver Sources Codes

The existing IMX290 driver and overlay also work fine with IMX327 and IMX426.

The open source driver on Raspbian:
https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/blob/rpi-5.10.y/drivers/media/i2c/imx290.c
Reference codes：
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/media/i2c/imx290.c

Dtoverlay

1. Open the config.txt on Raspbian:
   sudo nano /boot/config.txt

2. Add the dtoverlay into the config.txt file,
   dtoverlay=imx290,clock-frequency=74250000

3. And then press ctrl+ x to exit nad press ‘y’ to save.

4. Rebooted your Pi
   sudo reboot

5. Use below command to check the camera is ready.
   ls /dev/video0

Successful: Unsuccessful:

Frame Rate(fps) Test

Use below command, you can see frames-per-second information of your camera.
v4l2-ctl –stream-mmap –stream-count=-1 -d /dev/video0 –stream-to=/dev/null

30 fps:

60 fps:

Libcamera On Raspbian

libcamera is an open-source Linux community project. More information is available at the libcamera website: https://libcamera.org/
The libcamera source code can be found and checked out from the official libcamera repository. https://git.linuxtv.org/libcamera.git/
When running a Raspberry Pi OS based on Bullseye, the 5 basic libcamera-apps are already installed. In this case, official Raspberry Pi cameras will also be detected and enabled automatically. Below we only take ‘libcamera-hello’ for example. For more information, please refer to below link：
https://www.raspberrypi.com/documentation/accessories/camera.html#binary- packages
In addition, Below test base on Raspberry Pi 4, If you want libcamera apps on Bullseye running on Pi 0 – 3, please refer to below link:
https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?t=323547

Libcamera-hello

libcamera-hello is the equivalent of a “hello world” application for the camera. It starts the camera, displays a preview window.

Preview

Use below command to start the preview. libcamera-hello -t 10000

Set the Frame Rate
The IMX327 modue can support up 60fps.
https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/pull/4398/commits/192569ee019ad4bd642dc7012e176d1aa87ccd2c
https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/pull/4398
libcamera-hello –framerate 60

Set the Bit-Depth
libcamera-hello -t 10000 –mode 1920:1080:12:U
Above command set IMX327 work on 12bit , 1920(W) * 1080(H) unpacked mode. For more detail –mode arg : Camera mode as W:H:bit-depth:packing, where packing is P (packed) or U(unpacked)

User Manual Version Descriptions

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References

• libcamera.git - Linux camera framework (http://www.libcamera.org)
• Welcome — libcamera
• Raspberry Pi Documentation - Camera
• Raspberry Pi Documentation - Getting started

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