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Image stabilization to capture high quality images and videos

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Both Optical Image Stabilization (OIS) and Electronic Image Stabilization (EIS) are sensor-powered methods to compensate for movement and jitter that degrade the quality of photographs and videos. The latest smartphones, cameras, and drones use OIS and/or EIS to deliver sharp images and smooth high-resolution videos.

Enable professional quality photos and video with OIS and EIS

TDK sensing solutions ensure stable image capture in almost any condition
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Trusted solutions

Millions of market leading devices use TDK to deliver top quality OIS/EIS

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High performance gyroscope

Lowest noise and power gyroscopes with high vibration rejection

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Mature software

Refined software, hardware, and algorithms speed development

Improved image quality contributes to great devices

Don’t let blurring or jitter spoil the user experience

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Smartphones, tablets, and laptops

Picture and video quality is a key selling point for smartphones, and increasingly incorporated into tablets and laptops

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Digital and action cameras

DSLR, super zoom, point & shoot, as well as sports action cameras need top-notch stabilization to deliver amazing image quality

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Drones

Enable super smooth and clear imaging on drones, even in windy conditions

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Robotics

Safe and smooth movement depends on accurate object and environmental sensing enabled by stabilized imaging

Improved image quality contributes to great devices

Don’t let blurring or jitter spoil the user experience

Mobile

Optical image stabilization

Reduce blurring from shaking of the image sensor in a user’s hand

Integrating gyroscope powered OIS into camera modules has proven to be a highly effective solution to improve image quality in smartphones, digital cameras, drones and other products with high resolution image sensors. This can enable a smartphone to take professional level pictures that until recently were only possible to expensive DSLR mounted in gimbals.

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Electronic image stabilization

Ensure smooth playback by removing the video shake resulting from hand jitter

EIS compensates for any movement caused by hand jitter, turbulence, or bumps that would cause a shaking effect. EIS intelligently crops each individual image based on motion sensor data to reduce video blur. The result is dramatically smoother video capture from devices, such as smartphones, without requiring additional gimbals to provide physical stabilization.

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Explore sensors enabling OIS and EIS

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ICM-42688-P

High-Precision 6-Axis MEMS MotionTracking® Device

6-Axis High performance IMU supporting highly accurate external clock input, that helps to reduce system level sensitivity error, improve orientation measurement from gyroscope data, reduce ODR sensitivity to temperature and device to device variation. 

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ICM-42670-P

High-Performance 6-Axis MotionTracking® IMU

Ultra‑low power 6‑Axis IMU targeted at Consumer and IoT applications which require longer battery life. It has the industry’s lowest power consumption for both 6‑axis and accelerometer only operating modes. 

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