Twenty20 and OmniVision^®, an award winning semiconductor manufacturer and world renowned designer of CMOS camera chips have partnered to introduce their latest revolutionary CMOS camera chip to the action sports market.
 
OmniVision’s CMOS imagers are of the highest quality, meeting and exceeding the quality of the bigger, more expensive CCD cameras, which were long considered the better camera. OmniVision’s CMOS camera chips, designed to meet the stringent requirements of the automotive industry, use OmniPixel2^TM technology which dramatically improves the camera’s resolution, image clarity, and performance in low-light conditions.
 
Besides superior image quality, OmniPixel2^TM features some major technology process developments that increase the pixel density within a compact sensor size and maximizes the performance of the smaller pixel. This results in not only very high performance, but also much smaller and cost efficient cameras that operate perfectly by day and at night.

    The OmniVision® Advantage: Commitment to Excellence
    A pure-play image sensor company, OmniVision® Technologies’ sole commitment for the past 10 years has been to develop the best and most reliable CMOS image sensors and imaging solutions for camera phones, digital still cameras, automotive applications, toys, next generation game consoles, security and surveillance and medical applications.

OmniVision® uses standard CMOS semiconductor technology combined with proprietary designs and advanced image-processing algorithms. These state-of-the-art CMOS process technologies offer a fast and a cost-effective way to mass-produce camera chip products for high-volume markets. With its proprietary OmniPixel™ and OmniPixel2™ architectures, OmniVision has redefined CMOS imaging technology enabling exceptional sensitivity and performance per area, while yielding a significant reduction in overall sensor size.

OmniPixel2^TM Technology
Building on its revolutionary OmniPixel technology, OmniVision® introduced the OmniPixel2^TM architecture in September of 2005. OmniPixel2's pixel size of just 2.2 micron is less than half that of the first generation OmniPixel structures and represents one of the industry's smallest pixel sizes commercially available.

The OmniPixel2^TM architecture features process and technology improvements on both the sensor and system level that enable better performance per area and a further reduction in overall sensor size. OmniPixel2^TM features three major technology/process developments that increase the pixel density within a compact sensor size and maximizes the performance of the smaller pixel:

1. An increase in fill factor by 40 percent along with more vibrant and truer-to- life color reproduction.

2. A zero-gap micro-lens design, which eliminates the space between the lenses that are placed over each pixel, leading to a more efficient direction of light to the pixel's active area. This allows the pixels to capture over 20 percent more light, more effectively using the smaller pixel's active area.

3. A pixel design that features higher quantum efficiency and improved full well capacity, which brings significant improvements to the pixel's dynamic range. The quantum efficiency, which measures how effectively pixels convert the captured photons to electrons, was improved through OmniVision's new pro proprietary 0.13 micron process. Process improvements designed to optimize image performance also further increase full well capacity, which means that OmniPixel2^TM has even better full well capacity than its larger 3.18-micron OmniPixel predecessor.

Together, these three technology/process improvements are key to a very high dynamic range and to enabling unparalleled performance on low-light conditions.