A low power JPEG image compression IC for wireless ingestible endoscopy

In this paper, a low power baseline JPEG image compressor architecture, to be interfaced directly with an image sensor, has been presented. It compresses the raster YCbCr 4:2:2 image data from the image sensor into JPEG format. The compressed image data are being packed into byte format and DMA can be used to retrieve the JPEG image. The JPEG image compression chip is designed using 0.18-μm CMOS technology. It consumes 1.69mW when compressing at 7.49 (VGA) frames per second.