IT House reported on March 12 that domestic supply chain manufacturer Smartway announced today the launch of a new 12-megapixel CMOS image sensor for AI glasses application – SC1220IOT.
According to reports, this new product is equipped with the Always-On low-power normally-on function. In Always-On mode, SC1220IOT can maintain ultra-low power consumption and always-on operation at a lower frame rate, which can meet the needs of all-weather standby visual detection such as smart AI glasses camera environment detection and gesture recognition. In this mode, the power consumption of SC1220IOT can be as low as 1mW, which can fully guarantee the battery life of the whole machine.
SC1220IOT is equipped with SmartSmart ColGain HDR® technology, which can achieve a high dynamic range effect of up to 75dB through single-frame exposure multi-gain image synthesis, helping AI glasses cameras retain more details of bright and dark parts in complex light environments with strong contrast between light and dark, significantly improving the light and shadow effects of video shooting.
Moreover, AI glasses, as smart wearable devices, often need to be taken while the user is moving. SmartSign's ColGain HDR® technology can effectively suppress the generation of motion artifacts, helping AI glasses cameras easily cope with shooting sports scenes, and capture high-quality video images that are clear and smooth, without motion smearing, and with vivid light and shadow.
In addition, SC1220IOT can support 12MP full-size 60fps high frame rate video shooting in normal mode (double the frame rate compared to the previous generation product), and 4k 30fps high dynamic range video shooting in ColGain HDR® mode.
SC1220IOT is equipped with SmartSite's advanced SFCPixel®-2 technology, which achieves higher sensitivity while significantly reducing noise through the SF center. Thanks to this, the reading noise of SC1220IOT can be as low as 0.8e-, which can make the imaging picture clearer and cleaner in dark light environments such as evening and night.
As a 12-megapixel 1/3.57-inch CMOS image sensor, SC1220IOT is built on SmartClarity®-XL technology platform and adopts full-process domestic Stacked BSI advanced process technology. Its package size is only about 5.48mm x 3.97mm, and it can be flexibly applied to micro camera modules for a variety of smart wearable devices such as AI glasses and AR/VR devices.
Currently, SC1220IOT has accepted samples and will be mass-produced in Q2 2026.
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