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Thin Zoom Dual Cameras

Zoom is a commonly used photography feature; it allows the user to shift smoothly from a long shot to a close-up and vice versa. Optical zoom employs camera optics (a lens) to magnify the object, while digital zoom crops and up scales the input image. Unlike optical zoom, digital zoom reduces resolution and, as a result, diminishes image quality.
While dual camera smartphones are becoming commoditized, the first few triple camera harbingers are on the horizon, starting with Huawei’s P20 Pro just launched this week. Challenges and rewards are explained, several configurations are analyzed.

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  • Technology
  • Video optical zoom
  • Tele camera optics
  • Folded camera optics
  • Image fusion
  • Depth mapping

Zoom is a commonly used photography feature; it allows the user to shift smoothly from a long shot to a close-up and vice versa. Optical zoom employs camera optics (a lens) to magnify the object, while digital zoom crops and up scales the input image. Unlike optical zoom, digital zoom reduces resolution and, as a result, diminishes image quality.
While dual camera smartphones are becoming commoditized, the first few triple camera harbingers are on the horizon, starting with Huawei’s P20 Pro just launched this week. Challenges and rewards are explained, several configurations are analyzed.

Video Gallery

Video Gallery
  • Technology
  • Video optical zoom
  • Tele camera optics
  • Folded camera optics
  • Image fusion
  • Depth mapping

Image quality

Image quality testing
UI/UX testing
Testing benchmark design and integration

Camera hardware

Compact Lens design
Micro electro-mechanical systems for zoom, auto-focus, optical image stabilization
Diverse actuator technologies and control systems
Environmental and reliability testing in preparation for ultra high volume Manufacturing

Computer Vision

Deep Computer Vision models for: scene understanding, object detection and recognition and tracking; classification; depth analysis
Stereo vision and depth mapping
Image fusion
Dynamic multi aperture calibration
Heterogeneous computing (MT CPU, GPU, DSP, unified-memory architecture)
Mobile camera software architecture
UI/UX design for camera applications