TRIPLE CAMERAS: ARE THREE BETTER THAN TWO?

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.

In the past two years we have witnessed mass market adoption of dual camera technologies in most smartphone segments, across almost all manufacturers. We have seen dual cameras adopted both front and back, in various configurations for various end goals. Recent market reports indicate that 30% of smartphones in 2018 will use dual camera technologies, growing to 50% next year. Even though it took the smartphone market more than ten years to add a second camera, it seems that the addition of a third camera is just around the corner, within two years from the adoption of the second camera.

In this White Paper, we will discuss some motivations for adding a third camera to the smartphone imaging complex, the challenges it brings and some possible solutions.

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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