At present, the sorts and brands of vehicle driving recorders among the markets are multifarious. Moreover, their techniques, qualities, shooting effects and after-sale services are uneven and "fish and dragons jumbled together", which leads to that the customers could not identify which one was good or bad,even for the professional people.
However, as the development of car DVR industry, the gradual set-up of industry standards and the acknowledgement and standardization through the publications of related laws among different countries,the previous mentioned problems will never occurs in future and the development of car DVR industry will be determined by market economy. For the development trend of this industry, author daringly predict and probe as following and would like to exchange and share it with the people in the industry:
1. Multiple-Channel Display on Screen
From the single-channel display recording and display at earlier time to the double-channel recording and display afterwards and to the four-channel recording and display produced by some manufactures currently,the trend that multiple-lens recording and multiple-channel display on the screen of vehicle video recorder get pervaded will make the vehicle traveling security become more obvious.
2.The upgrading of image sensor and processor and operation system to high-end
Currently, the operation system solution and image sensor and processor (CMOS chipset) providers of the car camera recorder at the market are these brands: Boxchip, STK, SQ, Zoran, Novatek, Vimicro, Ambarella,etc.
As the development of automoblie video recorder and the improvment of the related markets, the operation system solutions and image sensors and processors of the car black box will tend to be high-end. Instead, the low-end operation system solutions and the copycat image sensors and processors of it will be gradually sifted out and replaced by more advanced and intelligent ones.
In future, author boldly predict that the built-in operation system of cellphone,such as Andriod,Windows Mobile,IOS,etc.,will probably be introduced into this industy and at the aspect of video data processing, cloud computing might be introduced into this field.
3. Pixel's improvement and function's diversification
The lens of automobile DVR and shooting video resolution will gradually develop toward the high-end from most of the products with 0.3 million pixels camera lenses at the beginning of 2007 to the ones with 1.3 million pixels camera lenes later, to the ones with 5 million pixels camera lenses afterwards and to the ones with 8 million and 12 million pixels camera lens nowadays. With the growth of this industry and higher and higher requirement of video definition, author calculates that higher pixels lenses might be extensively used in this field, such as 15 million pixels lens, 18 million pixels lens and 25 million pixels lens,etc. Besides, from 1.5 inch display screen at the earlier time to 2.4 inch, 3.0 inch, 4.3 inch ones afterwards and to 4.5 inch display screen nowadays, the video will be displayed on the larger, clearer, more intelligent and touch screens.
About the function of vehicle video recorder, from simple video recording to support of HSDC, SD,TF card for video storage,support of G-senspor and driving track recording and support of GPS and Google Map and with people's more emphasis on security and their demands for more humane, personalized features, author predict that in future, with the technique's development and application, such as wifi, siri voice search, GPS location and communications technology,etc, car camera recorder will be more than a video recording tool, but also realize the functions of interactive experience and video sharing with people, real-time sharing the pleasures, scenery and things along the way with friends, partners,family members and colleagues, as well as the functions of preview of forward road conditions, real-time video transmission and video forwarding, etc.
4. Elevation of processor at aspect of hardware
At the aspect of hardware, the processor from the single CMOS and image sensor to dual-core processor later and four-core processor nowadays, author predict that car DVR will tend to be the ones with multicore and multichipset. Meanwhile,the processing speed and efficiency of the processor will be constantly improved and the problems of heat dissipation and high temperature will be solved.
5. The branding of manufacturers
For vehicle camera recorder, the first one emerged at aboroad and was introduced into domestic market later. Since then, for the domestic markets, most of car DVR manufacturers fought alone and set own domains,which lead to the prevailing of plagiarism and copycat. Whereas, as the popularization and functional diversification of this product and factors of market profit spur, author forecasts that the manufacturers and business dealers in the industry of vehicle video recorder will develop to be more cooperative, integrated and branding.
Among them, Firmtop heads the list of brand suppliers of car driving video recorder and has been having a meteoric rise and growing to be a huge brand through the reshuffle and integration process of car DVR industry.
