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Video Interface Technology

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Handbook of Camera Monitor Systems

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With digitalization the number of camera interface specifications has grown enormously. The source of this growth is the technical potential of digital electronics and the extensive parameters of video technology as well as the requirements of manifold uses. Nearly every industry uses specialized camera interfaces. A short introduction to the basic parameters of video interfaces will help explain this situation. This manuscript gives an overview of camera interface technologies used in the automotive industry. The major concepts will be presented and their specific qualities described. The author comes to the conclusion that each electronic concept is purposeful for the varying requirements of a certain branch of the automotive industry. However, only the standardization of more aspects, then the electrical interface, will make cameras affordable for all thinkable automotive use cases. The author has followed the development of video technology over the course of his professional life. As a project leader at ISO, he was responsible for the automotive camera interface specified in ISO 17215.

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Abbreviations

AC:

Alternating Current

ADAS:

Advanced Driver Assistance Systems

AUTOSAR:

AUTomotive Open System ARchitecture

AHD:

Analog High Definition (HDcctv Alliance)

API:

Application Programming Interface

ARC:

(HDMI) Audio Return Channel

ASIL:

Automotive Safety Integrity Level

AVB:

Audio Video Bridging

BIST:

Built-In Self-Test

CAN:

Controller Area Network

CEC:

(HDMI) Consumer Electronic Control Channel

CSI:

Camera Serial Interface (MIPI)

CML:

Current Mode Logic

CMS:

Camera Monitoring System

CVBS:

Composite Video

DDC:

(HDMI) Display Data Channel

DMS:

Driver Monitoring System

DVI:

Digital Visual Interface

ECU:

Electronic Control Unit

EHC:

(MOST) External Host Controller

EMC:

Electromagnetic Compatibility

EMI:

Electromagnetic Interference

ESD:

Electrostatic Discharge

FBlock:

(MOST) Function Block

FPD:

Flat Panel Display

GPU:

Graphics Processor Unit

GPIO:

General-Purpose Input/Output

H264:

Advanced Video Coding

HDMI:

High-Definition Multimedia Interface

HD:

High-Definition Video

HEC:

HDMI Ethernet Channel

I2C:

Inter-Integrated Circuit

IIS (I2S):

Integrated Interchip Sound

IP:

Internet Protocol

INIC:

(MOST) Intelligent Network Interface Controller

LVDS:

Low-Voltage Differential Signaling

MIPI:

Mobile Industry Processor Interface alliance

MJPEG or M-JPEG:

Motion JPEG (video compression format)

MII:

Media-Independent Interface

NTSC:

National Television System Committee (Analog television system)

MIPI:

Mobile Industry Processor Interface

MOST:

Media Oriented Systems Transport

NIC:

(MOST) Network interface controller

openLDI:

Open LVDS Display Interface

OSI:

Open Systems Interconnection model

PHY:

Physical Layer (of OSI model)

POF:

Plastic Optical Fiber

RGB:

Red Green Blue color space

RMII:

Reduced Media-Independent Interface

SECAM:

Séquentiel couleur à mémoire (Analog television system)

SOME/IP:

Scalable Service-Oriented Middleware over IP

SPI:

Serial Peripheral Interface

STP:

Shielded Twisted Pair

SVS:

Surround View System

TDMA:

Time Division Multiple Access

TTL:

Transistor-Transistor Logic

UTP:

Unshielded Twisted Pair

WLAN:

Wireless Local Area Network

YUV:

Luminance, chrominance color space

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    Rainer Gutzmer

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Annex: Standards

Annex: Standards

Standard

Description

ISO 26262

Road vehicles—functional safety

ISO 10605

Road vehicles—test methods for electrical disturbances from electrostatic discharge

ISO 17215

Road vehicles—video communication interface for cameras (VCIC)

ISO 13400

Road vehicles—diagnostic communication over internet protocol (DoIP)

ISO 16505

Road vehicles—ergonomic and performance aspects of camera monitor systems—requirements and test procedures

ISO 11452

Road vehicles—component test methods for electrical disturbances from narrowband radiated electromagnetic energy

CISPR 25

Radio disturbance characteristics for the protection of receivers used on board vehicles, boats, and on devices—limits and methods of measurement

IEEE 1588

Precision Time Protocol

IEEE1722

IEEE standard for layer 2 transport protocol working group for time-sensitive streams

IEEE1733

IEEE standard for layer 3 transport protocol for time-sensitive applications in local area networks

IEC 61000 part 1-9

Electromagnetic compatibility (EMC)

ANSI/TIA/EIA-644-1995

Low voltage differential signaling standard

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Gutzmer, R. (2016). Video Interface Technology. In: Terzis, A. (eds) Handbook of Camera Monitor Systems. Augmented Vision and Reality, vol 5. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29611-1_8

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