JVC To Showcase 3D Camcorder at CES 2011 Featuring New LSI 2D/3D Chip

As the 3D trend starts to turn mainstream, we're seeing more and more manufacturers starting to come up with various products that allow users to either view or record 3D content, the latest to do so being JVC, who's just revealed the fact that they'll be showcasing at CES 2011 a new 3D camcorder, built using their newly-developed LSI for high-speed processing of Full High-Definition video and stills on one chip for HD camcorders.

The LSI enables shooting and recording Full HD, including both 2D and 3D images, and also ultra-high-resolution 4K2K images of approximately four times the resolution of Full HD.

The LSI achieves real-time 3D compression of separate Full HD images (1920 x 1080/60p) from right and left cameras using MPEG-4 MVC, the amount of data being double the conventional side-by-side 3D recording format, enabling high-resolution Full HD 3D images with one chip.

The LSI achieves low power consumption and enables lower system costs by incorporating all image-processing technologies for HD shooting, including camera-signal processing and video/still image codecs.

In addition to 2.7 times faster processing than previous CPU, the new CPU supports various signal-processing technologies that have been fully revised for superior high-resolution image recording, such as a camera-signal processing 1.7 times faster than JVC’s previous technology, enabling 8.3-megapixel video at 60 frames per second, an H.264 video processing that's twice better than JVC’s previous technology, enabling compression of 2.07-megapixel images at 60 frames per second.

Plus, JPEG still-image processing is 5.5 times faster than JVC’s previous technology, enabling compression at up to 8.3-megapixel images at 60 frames per second.

In addition to its image-signal processor, advanced image codecs and other image-processing technologies assembled into one chip, the LSI incorporates leading-edge 40nm process technology for high functionality, 40% reduction of power consumption and 50% reduction of system costs compared to previous LSI.

Of course, we're still waiting for the official CES showcase in order to find out more on this interesting camera from JVC, but from the preliminary looks of it, it will be quite an interesting piece of gear.