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Amount due from customers or clients, within one year of the balance sheet date (or the normal operating cycle, whichever is longer), for goods or services (including trade receivables) that have been delivered or sold in the normal course of business, reduced to the estimated net realizable fair value by an allowance established by the entity of the amount it deems uncertain of collection.

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For an entity that discloses a concentration risk in relation to quantitative amount, which serves as the "benchmark" (or denominator) in the equation, this concept represents the concentration percentage derived from the division.

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Number of segments reported by the entity. A reportable segment is a component of an entity for which there is an accounting requirement to report separate financial information on that component in the entity's financial statements.

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Amount after accumulated depreciation, depletion and amortization of physical assets used in the normal conduct of business to produce goods and services and not intended for resale. Examples include, but are not limited to, land, buildings, machinery and equipment, office equipment, and furniture and fixtures.

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Segment Reporting - Additional Information (Detail) $ in Thousands	12 Months Ended
	Jan. 31, 2017 USD ($) Segment	Jan. 31, 2016 USD ($)	Jan. 31, 2015
Concentration Risk [Line Items]
Number of reportable segment \| Segment	1
Property and equipment, net	$ 4,988	$ 3,448
Accounts receivable	38,596	39,408
Wintech [Member] \| Credit concentration risk [Member]
Concentration Risk [Line Items]
Accounts receivable	19,300	20,600
GoPro [Member] \| Credit concentration risk [Member]
Concentration Risk [Line Items]
Accounts receivable	$ 11,300
Chicony [Member] \| Credit concentration risk [Member]
Concentration Risk [Line Items]
Accounts receivable		$ 11,900
Sales revenue, net [Member] \| Wintech and GoPro [Member] \| Customer concentration risk [Member] \| Minimum [Member]
Concentration Risk [Line Items]
Percentage of revenue or accounts receivable	10.00%
Sales revenue, net [Member] \| Wintech [Member] \| Customer concentration risk [Member]
Concentration Risk [Line Items]
Percentage of revenue	60.00%	67.00%	57.00%
Sales revenue, net [Member] \| GoPro [Member] \| Customer concentration risk [Member]
Concentration Risk [Line Items]
Percentage of revenue	19.00%
Sales revenue, net [Member] \| Wintech And Chicony [Member] \| Customer concentration risk [Member] \| Minimum [Member]
Concentration Risk [Line Items]
Percentage of revenue or accounts receivable		10.00%	10.00%
Sales revenue, net [Member] \| GoPro’s various ODMs [Member] \| Customer concentration risk [Member]
Concentration Risk [Line Items]
Percentage of revenue	5.00%
Sales revenue, net [Member] \| Chicony [Member] \| Customer concentration risk [Member]
Concentration Risk [Line Items]
Percentage of revenue		21.00%	32.00%
Accounts receivable [Member] \| Wintech and GoPro [Member] \| Credit concentration risk [Member] \| Minimum [Member]
Concentration Risk [Line Items]
Percentage of revenue or accounts receivable	10.00%
Accounts receivable [Member] \| Wintech And Chicony [Member] \| Credit concentration risk [Member] \| Minimum [Member]
Concentration Risk [Line Items]
Percentage of revenue or accounts receivable		10.00%	10.00%
United States [Member]
Concentration Risk [Line Items]
Property and equipment, net	$ 2,100	$ 1,600
Asia Pacific [Member]
Concentration Risk [Line Items]
Property and equipment, net	$ 2,300	$ 1,500