Officially Licensed Sony STARVIS 2™ Sensor | AKEEYO XPRO
Officially Licensed. Genuine Sony Inside.
The AKEEYO XPRO is built around the Sony STARVIS 2™ IMX678 image sensor — and it carries the official STARVIS 2 logo under license from Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation.
That logo is not decoration. Sony licenses it only for products genuinely embedding STARVIS 2 sensor technology, reviews how licensees present it, and retains the right to revoke it. When you see the STARVIS 2 mark on the XPRO product page and packaging, you are looking at Sony's own trademark, displayed with Sony's permission.
Why this matters when you're buying a dash cam
The image sensor is the single most important component in a dash cam. It decides whether a license plate is readable at night, whether a tunnel exit blows out to white, whether the footage you need is actually usable as evidence.
It is also where corners get cut. Across the industry, cameras advertised with premium Sony sensors have been found running secondhand, relabeled, or lookalike chips. From the outside, the product looks identical and the spec sheet reads identical. The difference only shows up in your footage — usually at the exact moment you need it most.
A brand can type "Sony sensor" onto a product page in ten seconds. Carrying Sony's own licensed mark is a different thing entirely: it comes with a paper trail, a review process, and a licensor who checks.
What STARVIS 2 technology actually does for you
STARVIS 2 is Sony's back-illuminated pixel technology developed for low-light imaging. Inside the XPRO, the IMX678 sensor works together with an F1.08 aperture and an 8-element all-glass lens, and that combination is what delivers:
- License plates that stay readable on unlit roads, by your headlights alone
- Balanced exposure through tunnel entrances and exits — no blown-out white, no crushed black
- Reduced glare from oncoming high beams
- True 4K detail at 30fps, not interpolated resolution
Specs describe a camera. The sensor decides what your footage looks like at 11 p.m.
How to make sure you get the genuine article
Buy from AKEEYO or an authorized AKEEYO reseller. Every XPRO ships with the same IMX678 sensor covered by this license — there are no regional variants or quiet component swaps between batches. If you have any question about your unit, email help@akeeyo.com with your order number and we'll be glad to help.
Backed in writing, beyond the sensor
The sensor license isn't the only paperwork behind the XPRO. Every unit also comes with an 18-month replacement warranty and a 30-day money-back guarantee — install it, drive with it for a month, and if it isn't what you expected, send it back.