topic Raspberry Pi HQ camera in i.MX RT Crossover MCUs

Raspberry Pi HQ camera

dav1 — Sun, 21 Feb 2021 18:36:22 GMT

Hi,

Has anyone successfully used a Rpi HQ camera with the i.MX RT series?

It has a pretty nice 12.3 megapixel Sony IMX477R sensor
https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/raspberry-pi-high-quality-camera/

The interface coming from the camera is a 2-lane MIPI CSI-2, so a Parallel Bridge IC or FPGA would be needed to feed the imxRT. Costwise this might not make any sense though, but just curious if someone have it up & running.

Re: Raspberry Pi HQ camera

kerryzhou — Mon, 22 Feb 2021 07:16:36 GMT

Hi dav1,

Until now, I didn't see any customer use the HQ camera in the RT. so we still don't have any solutions about 12.3 megapixel Sony IMX477R sensor with RT.

We are mainly using MT9M114 or OV7725 camera module.

Maybe you also can check your Sony IMX477R sensor, whether that can meet the RT CSI demand. About the RT CSI feature, you can check the RT reference manual, CSI chapter.

If you still need help from my side, just kindly let me know.

Best Regards,

Kerry

Re: Raspberry Pi HQ camera

dav1 — Mon, 22 Feb 2021 08:50:21 GMT

hi, thanks will check what we can do. might look at imx8mini instead

Re: Raspberry Pi HQ camera

john_phillippe — Wed, 24 Feb 2021 20:48:12 GMT

The raspberry pi HQ camera output is RAW format which requires an ISP to convert to a usable color space. The raspberry pi does this, unfortunately the i.MX RT parts do not have an internal ISP. The cameras mentioned above - MT9M114 and OV7725 are modules which contain an ISP chip and then output a YUV type output to a CSI interface.

The i.MX 8M Plus does have an ISP and the camera built for it by Basler uses an OnSemi AR0821 image sensor and outputs raw. It has a M12 lens mount so you can add different lenses.

Re: Raspberry Pi HQ camera

qntn — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 13:35:58 GMT

Hi,

Is there any update on the support for the raspberry pi HQ cam (which can be used on the DEBIX Model A)?
Or could I only use the OKdo Camera 500 to 1300A camera's?

And is this limited by the DEBIX OS support for camera's?

Thanks in advance!

Re: Raspberry Pi HQ camera

kerryzhou — Thu, 27 Jul 2023 04:58:22 GMT

Hi @qntn ,

If you have any issues, please create your own question post, thanks.

Then we will help you in your own question post, please also tell use which NXP chip you are using in your own post.

Best Regards,

Kerry