New 2.2-micron global shutter sensor with on-chip HDR for machine vision

Image sensor company OMNIVISION announced the OG05D

The OG05D is a 5 MP (2592 × 1944) stacked, backside-illuminated global shutter image sensor with 2.2 µm pixels. Target applications for the OG05D include barcode scanners, factory automation, compact AI cameras and humanoid robots, in particular devices that collect robot training data. OMNIVISION calls the OG05D the industry's first 2.2 µm, 5 MP global shutter high dynamic range (HDR) sensor purpose-built for industrial machine vision.^[1][2][3]

The OG05D offers single-exposure dual conversion gain (DCG) HDR and three-exposure HDR, both at 60 fps, plus a linear mode at up to 146 fps. OMNIVISION says OG05D samples are available now, with mass production planned for Q4 2026.^[1]

Why it matters

Single-exposure DCG reads one exposure at two conversion gains, high for dark areas and low for bright areas.^[4] A voltage-domain global shutter pixel must hold both samples until readout.^[5] OMNIVISION engineers reported such a pixel at 2.2 µm in 2023, fitting the four storage capacitors that single-exposure DCG needs onto the ASIC wafer of a two-layer stack. The pixel's dynamic range was 69 dB with single-exposure DCG and 85 dB with dual exposure, at room temperature (no product named).^[6]

Among OMNIVISION's earlier 5 MP machine-vision sensors, the OG05C has DCG HDR at 60 fps and reaches 120 fps at 10 bits, but uses 3.45 µm pixels in a 1/1.443-inch format. OMNIVISION lists the 2.2 µm OG05B, launched in 2024, at 60 fps with 10-bit RAW output and no HDR mode. The OG05D combines DCG HDR at 60 fps with the OG05B's pixel size, and its linear mode reaches 146 fps (bit depth not stated).^{[1][3][7][8][9][10]}

The OG05D shares its 2592 × 1944 array of 2.2 µm pixels, 1/2.525-inch format and near-identical package size with the OX05C, an automotive in-cabin monitoring sensor OMNIVISION launched in October 2025. OMNIVISION lists only one HDR mode for the OX05C, three-exposure at 60 fps.^{[1][3][11][12]}

Sony and STMicroelectronics sensors with 2.25 µm pixels take other routes to HDR. Sony's 3.2 MP IMX900, a global shutter sensor for industrial use, sets multiple exposure times within each four-pixel unit. STMicroelectronics' 5.1 MP VD1943 and VD5943 for machine vision and robotics combine global and rolling shutter modes; ST says rolling shutter enhances dynamic range, and the VD5943 offers split-exposure spatial HDR.^[13][14][15]

OMNIVISION says the OG05D's single-exposure HDR reduces the motion artifacts of multi-exposure HDR, which matters for scanners reading labels on moving parcels or robot cameras passing from shade into daylight.^[1] Designs with room for the OG05C's larger format and C-mount optics could already use DCG HDR at 5 MP; the OG05D brings it to a smaller format.^[3][7]

Technical specifications: OMNIVISION OG05D

^{Sources: [1][3][16]}

Moving a design from the OG05B to the OG05D means a board change. The OG05D uses a 56-pin CSP (89 pins on the OG05B's CSP versions), lists only MIPI output (the OG05B adds parallel DVP), and runs from 2.9 V analog and 1.15 V or 1.2 V digital supplies (OG05B: 2.8 V and 1.2 V).^{[3][9][10][16]} 

OMNIVISION gives the OG05D's NIR quantum efficiency as above 55% at 850 nm and above 35% at 940 nm with no color filter named, close to the monochrome OG05B's 58% and 36% from 2024.^[1][17] 

As of this writing three OG05D figures that would decide a design-in remain unpublished: absolute power consumption, shutter efficiency (106 dB for the OG05B) and the dynamic range of each HDR mode.^[8]

Recommended next reading

Machine Vision Systems: Components, AI Integration & Selection Guide. How illumination, optics, sensor and interface choices fit together in an industrial vision system, including EMVA 1288 noise and dynamic range measurement and per-lane MIPI CSI-2 data rates.

Hybrid Bonding: Enabling High Density 3D Integration for Next Generation Electronics. How copper-to-copper hybrid bonding works, including its use in stacked CMOS image sensors to bond the pixel array to a logic die.

References

1. OMNIVISION Launches Industry's First 2.2-micron Global Shutter HDR Sensor for Flagship Industrial and Robotics Machine Vision Cameras, OMNIVISION via Business Wire, 5 October 2026
2. OMNIVISION Launches Industry's First 2.2-micron Global Shutter HDR Sensor for Flagship Industrial and Robotics Machine Vision Cameras, OMNIVISION, 5 October 2026 (OMNIVISION's own copy of the release)
3. OG05D 5-Megapixel Product Brief, version 1.1, OMNIVISION, October 2026
4. TheiaCel Technology, OMNIVISION, accessed 6 October 2026 (vendor technology page that explains DCG pixels)
5. Back Side Illuminated High Dynamic Range 4.0 µm Voltage Domain Global Shutter Pixel with Multiple Gain Readout, K. Mori et al., Brillnics, International Image Sensor Workshop, 2019
6. A 2.2μm 2-Layer Stacked HDR Voltage Domain Global Shutter CMOS Image Sensor with Dual Conversion Gain and 1.2e- FPN, Z. Gao et al., OMNIVISION, IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM), 2023 (paper by the vendor's engineers)
7. OG05C 5-Megapixel Product Brief, version 1.1, OMNIVISION, July 2026
8. OMNIVISION Unveils Two New Global Shutter Sensors for Machine Vision Applications, OMNIVISION, 30 April 2024
9. OG05B product page, OMNIVISION, accessed 6 October 2026
10. OG05B 5-Megapixel Product Brief, version 1.1, OMNIVISION, July 2026
11. OMNIVISION Announces Automotive Industry's First Global Shutter HDR Sensor for In-Cabin Driver and Occupant Monitoring Systems, OMNIVISION, 7 October 2025
12. OX05C1S 5-Megapixel Product Brief, version 1.0, OMNIVISION, October 2025
13. Sony Semiconductor Solutions to Launch 1/3-Type-Lens-Compatible, 3.2-Effective-Megapixel Stacked CMOS Image Sensor with Global Shutter for Industrial Use, Sony Semiconductor Solutions, 18 October 2023
14. Feature-rich 5 MP image sensors with dual global & rolling shutter: VB1943, VD1943, VB5943, VD5943, STMicroelectronics, October 2025 (data brief DB5664, revision 1)
15. VD5943 product page, STMicroelectronics, accessed 6 October 2026
16. OG05D product page, OMNIVISION, accessed 6 October 2026
17. OMNIVISION Global Shutter Sensor Technology Optimizes Next-Generation Industrial Barcode Scanners, OMNIVISION, 14 August 2024 (vendor white paper on the OG05B1B and OG01H1B)