Article Abstracts | November 2007
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Phone Enables Instant Image Capture
Using Wavefront Coding, camera phones can deliver true point-and-shoot capability.
by Ed Dowski and Kenny Kubala, CDM Optics
Some mobile phone camera users want a device with true point-and-shoot ability — a camera that captures high-quality images over a wide variety of object distances with no time delay. Whether shooting panoramas, portraits or close-ups, or even imaging business cards or bar codes, these users want images to be captured instantly, to be in focus and to have high image quality.
Using Wavefront Coding, a technology developed by CDM Optics, a division of OmniVision Technologies Inc. of Boulder, Colo., camera phones now can deliver true point and shoot over a wide range of scene illumination. TrueFocus, a new camera system employing this technology, will be available soon for mobile phones. The technology combines special optics and signal processing to produce images with increased depth of field without sacrificing light-gathering capabilities...
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