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TicoRAW is the new RAW

TicoRAW delivers the most beautiful pixels and most perfect colors, with the most brilliant brights and the deepest darks... with the world's best efficiency. 

Designed by intoPIX, TicoRAW unleashes image sensors, cameras and traditional RAW data-flows thanks to an innovative processing and coding. The full power of the sensor is preserved while reducing the bandwidth, the storage needs, the power consumption of the device, and the transfer time. 

TicoRAW is the world’s first RAW codec, handling both RAW pictures and RAW videos, that can offer such compression efficiency with such low power consumption and low complexity on RAW Bayer and other Color Filter Arrays (CFA) patterns. It offers high image quality and the capability to manage high resolution, high frame rate and high dynamic range workflows. 

The technology and associated products are covered by one or more claims of patent, awarding intoPIX's hard work and innovation. Tico stands for tiny codec. 
HIGH QUALITY RAW
 ​Perfect for Human Vision - Perfect for Machine Vision

Microsecond
Latency

"Handle RAW at the speed of light"

with a line-based RAW processing

in hardware or software


Perfect RAW
 Image Quality

Lossless quality of Bayer CFA data

Size reduction down to 1 bpp 

(More than 10x reduction!)

Perfect for Human & AI / ML

Low Power | Low Complexity | Efficient

Extremely low resource, low memory (no external DRAM), low power in hardware (FPGA or ASIC)

Extremely FAST in Software (ARM, x86, GPU)

Any
Resolution

For videos & stills

From 1 to 200 Megapixels

Up to 16-bit RAW with HDR support


Embedded Proxies
RAW & RGB

Embedded proxy viewing
(in RAW or  in RGB)

HIGH QUALITY RAW
Ready for your application

Live IP production

Low-latency RAW Streaming 

Camera to remote CCU,

Camera to Cloud 


Cameras

Digital Camera for Stills & Movies: Mirrorless, DSLR, Cinema, 

360°, Multi-sensors, SportCAM

Mobile

Mobile & IoT devices,

Sensors to processors

ISP optimization

Efficient & lower power interfaces 


GIS & Space

Large resolution capture systems

Aerial photography


Automotive

Autonomous Driving, ADAS & AMRs

Vehicle network

Test / Recording systems

Industrial 

Machine vision cameras, Inspection cameras, Microscope, Medical (Endoscope,..), Smart Glasses

TicoRAW is the New RAW
Gain efficiency - Improve your imaging workflows

  • Reduce power consumption and video bandwidth to process more pixels from the sensor.
  • Handle higher image and video resolution, high frame rate and high dynamic range easily: to capture, to record, to transmit, to edit, to analyze. 
  • Reduce the bandwidth of memory during the ISP process and RAW data analysis.
  • Get the lowest latency ("pixel-line")  to transmit RAW data over your wired/wireless network, infrastructures, and interfaces in real time. 
  • Efficiently decrease the stored RAW image data on the storage media, and extend camera battery duration 
  • Increase the editing, rendering, analytics speed and while retaining the sensor data needed for complete control of the RAW processing pipeline.

Image Sensors      

Camera Module      

Processors       

Network          

Processing & Storage   

Free up RAW Storage Space and Bandwidth Needs
​From 2:1 to up to 16:1 with no compromise

    How TicoRAW can help you to get smaller RAW storage, longer recording time and faster file transfer and raw editing

    And how TicoRAW can help you to transmit RAW at the speed of light over limited bandwidth.

    CONNECTIVITY DATA RATE REDUCTION
    DATA STORAGE REDUCTION
    CONNECTIVITY DATA RATE REDUCTION
    TicoRAW @ 60fpsExample @ 2 BPPExample @ 1 BPP
    Mbit/sMbit/s
     1920 x 1080250 Mbps125 Mbps
    4096 x 21601 Gbps500 Mbps
    7680 x 43204 Gbps2 Gbps

    Compression ratio according to the RAW bit depth :

    BIT DEPTH2 BBP  1 BPP
    105:110:1
    126:112:1
    147:114:1
    168:116:1
    DATA STORAGE REDUCTION

    TicoRAW is the new RAW. Preserve RAW at the size of a regular JPEG file !

     TicoRAW 12bit @ 60 fpsExample in Math. Lossless (~2:1)
    on 1TB SSD
    Example @ 6:1 (2 BPP)
    on 1TB SSD
    Example @ 12:1 (1 BPP)
    on 1TB SSD
     1920 x 1080 177 min533 min1066 min
    4096 x 216044 min133 min266 min
    7680 x 4320
    11 min27 min54 min

     TicoRAW Technical Specifications

    IMAGE / VIDEO
    Color format
     CFA  (color-filter-array) RAW data,  Bayer data (RGGB, BGGR, RCCB, RYYCy, RGBW, ...), HDR Bayer with PWL (piecewise linear)
    (optional monochrome and 4:2:2 mode)
    Bit depth 8- / 10- / 12- / 16-bit sensors
     Resolution Any up to 200 MPixels ( 20.000x 10.000 pixels)
     Frame rates Any (depending on ASIC / FPGA or CPU/GPU processor configurations)
    PROCESSINGQuality Mathematically lossless / Near-lossless / Visually lossless down to 1 bit per pixel (bpp)
    Rate control Constant Bit Rate mode (CBR) or Constant Quality mode (Capped VBR), adjustable from ~2:1 down to 20:1 (0,5bpp)
    Latency (Sub-) intra-frame: down to 0.1 millisecond
    Proxy option  Raw and RGB/downscaler with embedded ISP in decoder for ultra-fast analysis, proxy viewing (RAW or RGB) and fast editing . Proxies are part of the RAW master codestream
    IMPLEMENTATIONIP cores
    Libraries
     Low power in ASIC & FPGA, multiple architectures & profiles available, silicon-proven IP cores
    Optimized software libraries for x86-64, ARM64 & GPU. 

    IP Cores and Software Libraries, AVAILABLE​​

    Lightweight IP cores

    - Small footprint / low memory / low power IP cores

    - Low power (no external DDR)

    - Various encoder & decoder profiles & versions 


    Platforms:

    - AMD-Xilinx, Intel, Lattice FPGA 

    - ASIC such as TSMC 12, 16, 28, 40nm

    Fast Software

    - Super fast & Highly parallelized libraries 
    - Low latency
    - Real-time or faster than real-time 

    Platforms:
    - GPU: Nvidia (Cuda)
    - CPU: x86-64 Intel / AMD , ARM64, M1
    - More on request

    Awarded and Deployed

    Added in Nikon Z9 and Z8 Flagship Mirrorless Cameras as N-RAW for Still & Video

    intoPIX TicoRAW, a smart strategic move that will allow camera professionals to benefit from higher resolution with still & movie RAW format, while significantly reducing storage.

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    Nikon Z9 and Nikon N-RAW use intoPIX TicoRAW

    The new Novitec Industrial Camera 

    TicoRAW is transmitted straight out of the camera via Ethernet or wireless. Streaming RAW data with 10x less bandwidth with zero latency and highest speed software decoding allow Novitec camera users to stream RAW image data more efficiently.

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    Innovators Award from Vision Systems Design 2024

    intoPIX has been recognized with an Innovators Award from Vision Systems Design! Our groundbreaking TicoRAW Sensor Compression technology has been awarded the Gold Honoree title in the Image Sensor Category.

    Best of Show Award 2019

    intoPIX TicoRAW codec won the IBC 2019 Best of Show Award, recognising achievement in product innovation and development !

    MORE AWARDS

    You can provide us your raw content to test TicoRAW !

    Upload to our external drive here
    Zip your RAW images from any camera or sensor taken in any conditions with any settings (Do not hesitate to add any relevant information about the data characteristics). Note that RAW images/video will be sorted and stored securely on our data center to be used only for testing, research, validation. intoPIX guarantees privacy of any images uploaded and data will never get to third-party.

    Start your Evaluation & Implementations NOW!

    Evaluation versions, IP cores for FPGA or ASIC and  software libraries are fully available! 
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