This Type of Vision Chip Steps into the Spotlight

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AOV: Redefining the“ Always-On”Visual Experience

Traditional low-power cameras often rely on motion detection to trigger recording, which makes them prone to "missing footage" at critical moments. In contrast, AOV technology truly enables 24/7  continuous recording—it can operate continuously with extremely low power consumption even in battery-powered scenarios, ensuring no critical frames are missed.

The core that supports this experience lies in the AOV visual processing chip.

This type of chip enables cameras to record continuously at a low frame rate in an idle state, with power consumption as low as tens of milliwatts. Once a target is identified, it immediately switches to normal frame rate for recording. By introducing AI algorithms to replace traditional PIR or sensor solutions, AOV chips not only achieve simultaneous multi-target detection and extend detection distance, but also integrate AI ISP technology. This allows them to output full-color HD images even in low-light environments, significantly reducing reliance on supplementary lighting.

Guoke Micro further pointed out that STR standby technology is another key capability of AOV visual processing chips. This technology enables devices to retain working state memory in low-power mode, and resume operation instantly without system restart when awakened—effectively improving device response speed and user experience.

As market demand for low power consumption grows, AOV technology is attracting increasing attention from chip enterprises. At CPSE Security Expo 2025, Guoke Micro showcased its highly competitive AOV visual processing chip series GK7206V1 and GK7203V1, and conducted on-site demonstrations based on actual test data, attracting a large number of professional visitors to stop and experience.

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Guoke Micro's AOV: The Path to Universal Black Light

Test data shows that a 4-megapixel camera equipped with GuoKe Micro's GK7206V1 can operate for 4 days on two 2000mAh batteries, under the conditions of AI ISP enabled and weak supplementary lighting for human figures. This represents an approximately 12% improvement in battery life compared to traditional ISP.

The battery life advantage stems from GuoKe Micro's profound expertise in the "Yuanxiao" AI ISP engine and STR standby technology. Taking the GK7206V1 as an example, the "Yuanxiao" AI ISP only requires 0.5T computing power to achieve AI NR noise reduction at 4M@15fps. When combined with traditional ISP noise reduction technology, it delivers excellent noise reduction performance. Thanks to this, even in low-light environments, cameras equipped with this chip can output bright, vividly colored images—comparable to those captured in daylight—without the need for supplementary lighting, significantly reducing overall device power consumption and extending battery life.

As mentioned earlier, STR standby technology is a key enabler of AOV's continuous recording capability. This technology has been maturely applied in set-top boxes, televisions, and other fields for many years. GuoKe Micro has dedicated 17 years to the set-top box chip industry, accumulating profound experience particularly in the development and optimization of STR technology. Now, the company has extended this low-power technology advantage to the AOV field, further expanding the application boundaries of visual chips in scenarios such as continuous recording/monitoring and battery-powered operation.

At the CPSE 2025 exhibition, GuoKe Micro released the measured power consumption data of the GK7206V1 series in AOV mode. With a 2-megapixel@1fps configuration, the power consumption of the single board—including the image sensor—was as low as 42mW. Even at 4-megapixel@1fps, the power consumption was only 50mW. This performance fully demonstrates its leading capabilities in ultra-low-power design.

The market has also responded positively to this technology from GuoKe Micro. Leveraging its two core technological advantages—"Inclusive Black-Light" and AOV—the GK7206V1 achieved large-scale mass production in just two months since its launch in July this year. It has also successfully entered the supply chains of several leading enterprises in traditional security and consumer electronics, becoming a benchmark product among inclusive dual-camera black-light AOV visual processing chips.

In the partner exhibition area of GuoKe Micro, a variety of terminal devices equipped with the GK7206V1 were showcased collectively. These include China Mobile's whole-house care robot and Mireo's black-light full-color camera, which further confirms the market appeal of this chip.

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Guoke Micro's AOV: The Path to Lightweight Intelligent Multi-Camera Systems

In addition to mid-to-high-end cameras and consumer products such as action cameras, drones, and care robots, more and more low-cost video devices are now adopting AOV technology to break free from reliance on continuous power supply.

However, traditional low-cost AOV chips usually have no built-in computing power, making it impossible to achieve intelligent detection of specific targets such as people and vehicles. To address this pain point, GuoKe Micro has launched the "Lightweight Intelligent Multi-Camera" technical path, providing a new AOV solution for the cost-effective market.

Its representative product, the GK7203V1 series, has a built-in 0.2T general-purpose NPU. While maintaining the advantage of low cost, it provides high-integration, low-power lightweight intelligent visual processing capabilities for diverse scenarios such as consumer cameras, low-power battery cameras, dashcams, video doorbells/locks, code-scanning devices, and face recognition terminals.

The measured power consumption data of GuoKe Micro's GK7203V1 series in AOV mode shows that with a 2-megapixel@1fps configuration, the power consumption of the single board—including the image sensor—can be as low as 46mW.

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Final Thoughts

Notably, in April this year, National Chip & Integrated Circuit Design Co., Ltd. (Guokewei) launched its new generation of self-developed AI ISP engine - Yuanxiao. At the CPSE Security Expo 2025, Guokewei unveiled the IP image of "Yuanxiao". With its iconic forward-facing double-eye design, this image vividly interprets the technical core of Guokewei's AI ISP engine: extreme low-light visual enhancement capability and precise detail capture performance.

As Goke Microelectronics puts it, artificial intelligence is profoundly reshaping the smart vision chip track. Relying on its self-developed NPU technology, Goke has built a full-range smart vision chip matrix covering high-end, mid-range and low-end markets:

For high-end applications, the 4K AI vision processing chip GK7606V1 series has a maximum computing power of up to 2.5 Tops.

For the mid-to-high-end general security market, the affordable black-light AOV vision processing chip GK7206V1 series has a built-in 1 Tops NPU.

In the economical and consumer markets, the GK7203V1 series provides cost-effective smart vision solutions with a general-purpose lightweight NPU of 0.2 Tops.

Driven by Goke Microelectronics, a more accessible era of black-light AOV is approaching.