Luxonis OAK-1 Auto-Focus Camera 12MP

The OAK 1 isn t a standard USB camera. It s a 4 trillion operations per second AI powerhouse that performs your AI models on board, so that your host is free to do whatever you need it to do. Its integrated 12 MegaPixel camera module communicates over an on board 2.1 Gbps MIPI interface directly to the Myriad X, which ingests this data and performs neural inference on it, returning the results over USB. Such a data path offloads the host processor from all of this work. In the common use case of object detection from a 12MP image, this means your host is now dealing with a 24 Kbps stream of what the objects are and where they are in the image, instead of a 2.1 Gbps stream of video. So an 87,500 reduction in data your host has to deal with. And such a reduction means that even on relatively slow hosts, one can use dozens of OAK 1 without burdening the host CPU.

Both the Fixed Focus and Auto Focus variants have fixed focus grayscale stereo cameras. The Auto Focus vs. Fixed Focus variants of OAK 1 differ only in the color camera. Fixed Focus has the lens fixed in place mechanically and cannot move, whereas Auto Focus has an electromagnet that controls the lens position dynamically.