NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano/Camera Sensors Support/IMX708

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This wiki provides information about the IMX708 camera sensor driver developed by RidgeRun. The information provided was tested on:

* JetPack version: 5.1.1
* Linux for Tegra version: 35.3.1
* 1x IMX708 Rapsberry Pi Camera Module V3

Raspberry Pi Camera Module 3 & driver features

The Raspberry Pi Camera V3 camera module (IMX708) is compatible with the Jetson Orin Nano developer kit from NVIDIA. The IMX708 is a cost-effective camera module capable of capturing a resolution higher than 4K. Table 1 shows the characteristics of the camera module. The driver developed by RidgeRun has the specifications shown in Table 2. If you need to extend the driver to meet your project needs, feel free to contact us.

Figure 1: Raspberry Pi 3 Camera Module 3 connected to a NVIDIA® Jetson Orin Nano™

Raspberry Pi Module 3 specifications

Parameter	Description
Image sensor	IMX708
Optical Size	1/2.43(7.4mm sensor diagonal)
Number of effective pixels	Height = 4608, Width = 2592
Pixel Size	1.4μm × 1.4μm
Interface	MIPI CSI-2 Interface
Shutter Type	Rolling Shutter
Color Filter	Color
Minimun Focus Distance	5 cm
Binning Support	Yes
HDR Support	Yes
Auto-Focus (PDAF)	Yes

IMX708 driver for Orin Nano specifications

Parameter	Description
Pixel Depth	RAW10
Resolution	4608 x 2592
Framerate	14.35

You can use V4L2 or GStreamer to capture using the camera module and RidgeRun driver. The video attached below was obtained using the following GStreamer pipeline:

nvidia@ubuntu:~$ GST_DEBUG="GST_TRACER:7" GST_TRACERS="framerate" gst-launch-1.0 nvarguscamerasrc sensor_id=1 -e ! 'video/x-raw(memory:NVMM),width=4608,height=2592,framerate=14/1, format=NV12' ! nvvidconv ! x264enc tune=zerolatency insert-vui=true pass=quant quantizer=32 speed-preset=ultrafast bitrate=5000 ! mpegtsmux ! filesink location=output_office_cam1.mp4

Figure 1: Raspberry Pi 3 Camera Module 3 recording (4608x2592@14.35fps)