Integrated camera

Integrated Camera

The Integrated camera Almost all recent ThinkPads have an integrated camera above the display. This camera (typically called a webcam) is USB attached. On some earlier ThinkPads a proprietary camera was used, but later models use a standard UVC camera which is supported by the uvcvideo driver.

Probably all cameras have a 4pin connector carrying USB and power. Because of their location (above the display) they all share a long and thin board layout. But the exact shape varies. Often several models share the exact same form factor, but with different resolutions. DIY upgraders can sometimes use higher resolution cameras from later models or cheaper camera modules from earlier’s.

ThinkPads which may have a proprietary camera

These ThinkPads have a 0.3MP fixed focus Sonix SN9C201 camera which is supported by the gspca_sn9c20x driver.

• Z61t, Z61m

ThinkPads which may have a UVC camera

At the moment these two video interface controllers are known (You have another? Report USB id, the text on the chip and video modes as reported by software/driver.):

• Ricoh R5U875: VGA (640×480 0.3MP) @30fps and both SXGA (1280×1024 1.3MP), UXGA (1600×1200 1.9MP) @15fps

 * this is one of the so called 1.3MP webcams (or the only one?), even though it can not handle 30 frames/second at that resolution, nor is it limited to 1.3MP

• Ricoh R5U877: VGA (640×480 0.3MP), UXGA (1600×1200 1.9MP) @30fps and QXGA (2048×1536 3.1MP) @15fps. Has an Image Signal Processor.

 * USB id: 17ef:480d (Lenovo Integrated Webcam [R5U877])
 * referred to as 2.0MP camera

0.3MP fixed focus

• Edge 11", Edge 13"
• X100e, X120e

1.3MP fixed focus

• R61, R61i, R400, R500 (FRU 42T3106)
• SL300
• T61 (widescreen models only), T400, T500
• W500, W700, W700ds
• X200, X200s (both FRU 42W8015)

Ricoh R5U875 video interface controller supporting VGA (640×480 0.3MP) @30fps and both SXGA (1280×1024 1.3MP), UXGA (1600×1200 1.9MP) @15fps

• X200 Tablet
• X300, X301

2.0MP fixed focus

USB ID: 17ef:480d (Lenovo Integrated Webcam [R5U877] The Ricoh R5U877 video interface controller supports VGA (640×480 0.3MP), UXGA (1600×1200 1.9MP) @30fps and QXGA (2048×1536 3.1MP) @15fps. In contrast to the R5U875 it has an integrated Image Signal Processing unit.

• Edge 14", Edge 15"
• L412, L512
• SL400, SL410, SL500, SL510
• T400s, T410, T410i, T410s, T410si, T510, T510i
• W510, W701, W701ds
• X201 (FRU 45N2795), X201 Tablet

Known Bugs

• Cheese in Ubuntu 11.10 lp:888633