Googles new patent will utilize a phones GPS in order to understand current weather conditions in the users vicinity. What makes this different from the simple auto adjust on current cameras and thus patent-able is its reliance on GPS to achieve this function rather than light sensitivity.
For example, the software will use this data to adapt the camera to favor different saturation or chose weather to use flash or not. This not only enhances the quality of users everyday pictures but also makes the photography experience far more automatic and speedy. If the patent proves as effective as claimed users will no longer have to manually chose many or all of the camera settings they are used to.
This patents could have a allot of potential for the upcoming releases of smart phones. Indeed, Vic Gundotra, senior vice president of engineering for Google, recently stated that that future Nexus smart phones will feature “insanely great cameras”. Furthermore, if this patent is ultimately integrated into future versions of Andriod there is the possibility of interaction with Samsung Galaxy S4′s new temperature and humidity sensors. Although the extended future application of this patent is pure speculation, its immediate advantages for smart phone cameras are very interesting.
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Camera quality has been steadily improving with each new phone that comes out. Apps like Instagram have made it super important to have good cameras.
ReplyDeleteindeed, there is a lot of potential. however, there are also a lot of other possibilities and substitutes that this technology might not be as needed. also, gps determines the location, but will it be able to provide detailed enough information of what is in the surrounding at that particular time? for example, what if there is a car headlight that shines at me? will the camera be able to auto adjust base on the gps?
ReplyDeleteThis is definitely interesting, but I think that with photo-sharing these days, people use different filters anyways.
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