Car Black Box

Car Black Box from Texas Instruments

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Car Black Box (CarBB) Solutions from Texas Instruments

Car Black Box (CarBB) is a car digital video recorder device that allows monitoring and recording of activities inside or outside an automobile. This new low power aftermarket technology can be used as a personal automobile surveillance system. Texas Instruments has customized solutions for this product segment.

Car Black Box can provide a panoramic style monitoring with its front, rear and optional side cameras. A high quality recording is achieved with the integration of high megapixel image sensors, TI’s DSP image processing and compression engines. The resulting H.264, MJPEG or MPEG4 videos can be stored on a local SD/Hard Disk storage to view on a local screen or can even be streamed onto a remote viewing unit through WiFi/3G/4G connections.

CarBB provides various solutions to meet particular needs. For instance, many types of modules including analog cameras and image sensors (parallel, CSI2, MIPI over LVDS) can be connected to the TI CarBB in any configurations from one to four channels. For bigger automobiles, the channel density can reach 8 or more channels. The scalability offered by TI’s DSPs allows monitoring for different size vehicles.

Primarily as aftermarket equipment, the CarBB provides a small form factor, low power with high heat dissipation solution that allows for a personal automobiles surveillance system that is functioning regardless if the car is on or off.

Application Notes (1)

Title Abstract Type Size (KB) Date Views
HTM 9 KB 17 Jul 2008 3487
    

Reference Designs

Description Part # Company
DaVinci DM385 based Car DVR RDK CARDVRRDK Texas Instruments

Selection and Solution Guides

Selection Guides (3)

Title Abstract Type Size (KB) Date Views
PDF 8.94 MB 11 Mar 2013 28115
PDF 3.02 MB 19 Apr 2011 5618
PDF 4.16 MB 23 Jul 2009 10242

Solution Guides (2)

Title Abstract Type Size (KB) Date Views
PDF 5.43 MB 15 Dec 2011 9300
PDF 3.09 MB 19 Jun 2007 1102

Tools and Software

Name Part # Company Software/Tool Type
Code Composer Studio (CCStudio) Integrated Development Environment (IDE) v5 CCSTUDIO Texas Instruments SW Development Tools, IDEs, Compilers
TMSDM365 Digital Video Evaluation Module TMDXEVM365 Texas Instruments Development Kits

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White Papers (7)

Title Abstract Type Size (MB) Date Views
PDF 667 KB 21 Feb 2013 779
PDF 2.42 MB 29 Nov 2012 1826
PDF 94 KB 16 Jun 2011 732
PDF 150 KB 28 Aug 2009 1299
PDF 58 KB 01 Feb 2008 774
PDF 56 KB 08 Sep 2005 834
PDF 55 KB 08 Sep 2005 948

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