0472:b091 — Webcam
Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd
- Vendor ID
- 0472
- Product ID
- b091
- Combined
- 0472:b091
- Decimal
- 1138:45201
What is this device?
This is the USB identifier for a Webcam manufactured by Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd. The vendor ID 0472 is registered to Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd with the USB Implementers Forum, and b091 is the product ID that Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd assigned to this particular model. When you run lsusb on Linux, this device appears as 0472:b091 Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd Webcam.
How to identify it on your system
Linux
$ lsusb Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0472:b091 Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd Webcam
You can filter directly with lsusb -d 0472:b091, or get the full descriptor dump with lsusb -v -d 0472:b091. Kernel messages from dmesg show the same pair as idVendor=0472, idProduct=b091.
Windows
In Device Manager, open the device, go to Details → Hardware Ids. This device reports:
USB\VID_0472&PID_B091 USB\VID_0472&PID_B091&REV_0100
From PowerShell: Get-PnpDevice | Where-Object InstanceId -match "VID_0472&PID_B091"
macOS
$ system_profiler SPUSBDataType
Webcam:
Product ID: 0xb091
Vendor ID: 0x0472 (Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd)Driver help
Having driver issues with this device? Most USB devices are handled by a generic class driver; if yours shows up as an unknown device, confirm the ID above first, then check the manufacturer's downloads page.
Raw usb.ids entry
The exact lines this page is generated from, in the upstream source file:
0472 Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd b091 Webcam