IMPROVING VIDEO PHOTOGRAPHY BY AUTONOMOUS CAMERA FEATURES

Smartphones are designed to be touch operated from the display. This ubiquitous feature of smartphones brings presents an operational detriment when capturing videos. Typically shooting a smartphone video requires both hands to hold the phone and point it stably at the scene. People have a limited number of hands and fingers with which to adjust focus, zoom or other controls while also holding and pointing the smartphone. Moving around while shooting requires even more attention away from the smartphone.

Smartphone cameras have for some time been able to deal autonomously with the so-called 3A:     Auto-focus, Auto-white balance and Auto-exposure. Corephotonics is working to develop software and hardware enhancements to enable an extended range of autonomous features. Such enhancements are aimed to make video capture effortless and the captured videos more informative and less erratic.