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COACH 9

Overview & Features

Overview

Coach 9 innovative features and integrations offer competitive performance and picture quality for digital cameras. The COACH 9 family enables platforms from entry-level to high end cameras including high quality digital video camcorders.
 

COACH 9 Family

  • COACH 9m (part # ZR36470BGCG) - Entry-mid range line, 12-bit color depth. Pin-to-pin compatible with COACH 7m and COACH 8m
  • COACH 9p (part # ZR36472BGCG) - Performance line,16-bit color depth, embedded timing generator & HDMI interface
  • COACH 9s (part # ZR36473BGCG) - Digital Still Capture line, with JPEG/Motion JPEG only
  • COACH 9MCM - Multichip package for space-saving boards for ultra-slim cameras

All products support up to 16M pixels of image resolution, are firmware compatible, and share a majority of the system configuration allowing for easy migration

 

Firmware Highlights

  • Embedded host control (HCE) software architecture enables customer creation of DSC applications with minimal effort
  • Backward compatibility with previous COACH software API set
  • Open firmware architecture for easy customer modification
  • All standard camera operation modes
  • Image playback allows up to 16x digital zoom, accelerated playback and image rotation
  • Advanced GUI support including rich OSD, bitmaps, picture in picture and more
  • Resizable, multicolor fonts
  • Optional audio annotation of pictures
  • Playback and recording of sound in AVI clips
  • Sound effects, including shutter effects
  • Dictaphone feature
    • Variety of protocols for USB interface supported including:
    • PC Video Capture mode, for capturing real time video (MJPEG compressed) to PC
    • WIA, Twain, and Twain 2 protocol for direct retrieving of images and live video
    • Bulk-Only Mass Storage, for representing camera as a PC drive. No drivers required for most operating systems
    • PTP
    • Pictbridge, for direct printing to all printers supporting Pictbridge interface

Feature List

  • Up to 16M Pixels image capture resolution
  • Click to click performance of 3 frames/sec at 7MP resolution
  • 16-bit image processing for highest quality, includes multiple Zoran proprietary (patent pending) technologies.
  • mage enhancement and manipulation effects for better viewing and printing quality
  • Capable of WMV MPEG-4, video capture and playback of VGA resolution at 30 frames/sec including audio and 20 frames/sec at SVGA resolution
  • File formats including ASF, DivX, AVI and MOV can be supported
  • MPEG-4 encoding uses I, P and B frames for true video quality
  • Digital Video Motion Stabilization technology (patent pending) to compensate for unwanted camera movement during video capture
  • Capable of several Audio codecs including: WMA; Dolby Digital AAC; ADPCM; MPEG1
  • On-chip HDMI transmitter for native HD display support
  • Rich color on-screen display (OSD) with transparency levels
  • Picture-in-Picture with blending support in hardware
  • Direct output to TV monitor, on-chip encoder and video D/A
  • Digital video interface to LCD. Includes on-chip programmable controller for multiple LCD vendors
  • 32-bit MIPS CPU provides ease of development and porting of SW applications
  • Direct interface to resident flash memory (NAND or NOR type) and/or removable memory card support (CompactFlash (CF),
  • SmartMedia (SSFDC), Secure Digital (SD), MultiMediaCard (MMC), High Speed MMC (HSMMC) xD, Memory Stick, Memory Stick Pro (MS-Pro) and SDRAM storage
  • Direct interface to ATA-6 (or subset) hard disks.
  • 16-bits data DDR-SDRAM interface supporting sizes of 64Mbit, 128Mbit, 256Mbit, 512Mbit and 1Gbit
  • On-chip High Speed USB 2.0 OTG interface
  • CCIR-601 input port for capturing from an external TV decoder.
  • Generic serial port for interfacing with peripheral HW units

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