Sound Vision Announces New Production Ready Digital Still Camera Design

FRAMINGHAM, Mass.--April 28, 1999-- Sound Vision, a privately held company specializing in digital imaging technology, today announced the availability of their production ready design for the SV1301 digital still camera.

The SV1301 has a very aggressive street price of , and offers the most competitive feature set for a digital camera in this price range. The SV1301 design is built around Sound Vision's Clarity 2.0 digital imaging ASIC and includes the Kopin CyberDisplay, the Hewlett Packard VGA CMOS color sensor, USB, audio capture and playback, and a sophisticated suite of firmware which can be easily customized by OEMs. The product is positioned for digital camera, portable device, and computer peripheral companies who seek to introduce a digital camera in time for this year's Christmas selling season.

Sound Vision's Clarity 2.0 is the foundation for a wide range of digital image capture devices. The Clarity 2.0 ASIC integrates a broad array of technologies including the Kopin CyberDisplay, LCD display, Compact Flash, SmartMedia, USB, and RS232, and supports both CCD and CMOS image sensors. The Clarity 2.0 platform offers the largest integrated feature set to digital imaging product OEMs. Coupled with Sound Vision's complete firmware library and sophisticated consulting services, Clarity 2.0 helps OEMs decrease their time-to-market for entire families of digital imaging devices.