Rapid improvement of automotive intelligence

In-car cameras are in great demand

With the acceleration of automobile intelligence and network connectivity, vehicle cameras have begun to be widely used in intelligent driving, intelligent cockpit and other parts to better ensure the safety of drivers and passengers. Nowadays, more and more people take the number of car cameras as an important reference item when buying a car.

The 360-degree panoramic image of the vehicle is mainly provided by four cameras around the body to provide real-time images to help drivers better observe the surrounding environment. Today, more and more consumers will be 360 degree panoramic image as one of the necessary options to buy a car, if the original car is not configured, many people will also take the way to install the panoramic image function.

Not only that, as an important part of intelligent vehicle visual perception, the vehicle camera also plays an important role in collision warning, lane deviation alarm, pedestrian detection and other vehicle driving.

Industry insiders said that with the continuous maturity of autonomous driving technology, the number of on-board cameras carried by L3 intelligent cars has reached more than 8, and the future L4 and L5 intelligent cars are expected to reach 15, and the application space of on-board cameras is very broad. According to relevant market analysis institutions, the average number of passenger car cameras in the first quarter of this year is about 2.7, an increase of about 0.3, an increase of about 0.1. Among them, the application of new energy passenger cars in the front view camera showed an explosive growth trend, an increase of 168%.

The size of the car camera market continues to expand

The industry ushered in a period of high-quality development

With the growth of sales of new energy smart vehicles, the on-board camera is also iterating rapidly and has entered the period of high-quality development of the industry, which has also driven the sales increase of relevant manufacturers.

Peng Fengchao is the head of a car camera production company in Shenzhen, he told reporters that with the increasing intelligence of cars in recent years, the orders for car cameras received by their companies are also increasing.

Peng Fengchao, general manager of a camera manufacturer in Shenzhen: Orders have been in a saturated state, and the orders for December have been finished in August.

Peng Fengchao said that the sales growth of car cameras in the past two years is about 40% every year, and with the improvement of automobile intelligence, the sales of enterprise products will continue to remain high in the future.

Industry insiders said that with the rapid increase in the penetration rate of autonomous driving, the car camera market will usher in a rapid outbreak period. According to relevant market analysts, the number of passenger car cameras in the Chinese market will increase by 24% year-on-year to nearly 66 million in 2022, and will exceed 100 million in 2025, with a compound annual growth rate of 21% from 2021 to 2025.

Gao Songquan, deputy general manager of Research and development department of Zhejiang video Technology Co., LTD. : This year's global car sales of about 80 million, if each car is equipped with 10 cameras, car cameras in the future in the world each year has a total market capacity of more than 100 billion yuan, the market potential is huge, it can be said that this industry has caused qualitative change by quantitative change.

At the same time as the increase in shipments of car cameras, technological change is also accelerating. Industry insiders said that now the car camera high-definition route is very obvious, 1 million pixels has become the mainstream, 2 million, 3 million, 8 million pixels have begun to enter mass production. In addition, in the imaging technology, transmission technology and other aspects of continuous improvement and iteration.