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2008-11-17
Scalado introduces a zero shutter lag capturing experience for camera phonesThe new capabilities will deliver an astounding camera phone experience for both manufacturers and end users
Scalado (www.scalado.com), a world-leader in mobile imaging software solutions, will present its new technology innovation, The Scalado Camera Solution. This latest development from Scalado is the first to include both the Scalado Camera Engine™ and Scalado SpeedTags™ and will be demonstrated at the Image Sensor Summit in California, USA, where Sami Niemi, CTO of Scalado will also be speaking on November 17th, at 5.15.
The Company's innovative solution for improving JPEG image handling performance by effectively managing the large files produced by high-resolution images, enables zero-shutter lag, burst capturing and instant zoom/pan in the camera. A live demo board, developed in collaboration with Texas Instruments (TI), Symbian and OmniVision will be on display during the show, and a demo board movie can be seen here: http://www.scalado.com/products/camera-solution/
"Thanks to the new technology, manufacturers can now offer real-time viewing and capturing of high-resolution images, totally eliminating shutter lag. As a result, camera phone users can finally take memorable photos instead of missing the moment.”, says Sami Niemi CTO of Scalado.
With this new solution, photographers using a camera phone can instantly capture multi-megapixel images without any "shutter lag", thereby freezing the exact moment of capture. Until now, only advanced Digital Still Cameras (DSC) and Single Lens Reflex (SLR) cameras have thus far been capable of managing the delay between pressing the capturing button and actually saving the view finder image as the captured high resolution image.
As a result, 'shutter lag' has typically been one of the biggest technical challenges facing camera phones, especially when photographing moving objects. With Scalado's new 'zero shutter lag' feature, however, users can be sure that the image which they see in the viewfinder is the image that they capture. Users can then instantly zoom into the resulting JPEG images to review the details of the image in real-time.
The Scalado Camera Solution is based on two products: The SpeedTags IP and The Scalado Camera Engine. The SpeedTags IP is a minimal modification to the HW JPEG encoder that enables the encoder to produce modified JPEG images, referred to as SpeedTagged JPEGs.
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Scalado Contacts, available at the events in USA: Fadi Abbas VP Business Development, Scalado Phone: +46 (0)733 118 222 Email: fadi.abbas@scalado.com
CTO, Scalado Phone +46 (0)733 826 736 E-mail: sami.niemi@scalado.com
CEO, Scalado Phone: +46 (0)733 118 228 E-mail: mats.jacobson@scalado.com
Web: www.scalado.com
About Scalado
Founded in 2000, Scalado has its head office in IDEON Research Park in Lund, Sweden. The company's principal shareholders are venture capitalists NorthCap Partners, Industrifonden, and Teknoseed as well as company's founders. For more information, please visit www.scalado.com
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