Your every moment, documented. That’s the Memoto concept, a tiny wearable camera that snaps a shot every thirty seconds to digitally augment your memory. Early doubts as to whether enough people would want to record each waking moment were quickly squashed when the Memoto Kickstarter saw 11x the expected pledges, though the challenge of bringing
This week the team at NHK have shown off a method for expanding the world of “Bullet Time”, a form of time-freezing video and photo capture made famous by the original “Matrix” movie. Having done a bit of a timeline exploration of Bullet-Time back a few months ago, we can confidently say that the art
If you’d like a ruggedized camera to match that white Nexus 4 of yours, Pentax has you covered. The outfit has just unveiled an alabaster WG-3 that boasts the same specs and price tag as its vibrantly colored siblings. Dropping $300 on the shooter nets risk-prone photographers a 4x, f/2-4.9 lens backed by a 16-megapixel CMOS sensor, a 3-inch LCD screen, video capture at 1080/30p and 720/60p, and even GPS for an additional $50. A toughened exterior makes the hardware cold-proof, crush-proof, drop-proof, shock-proof and water-proof. Yearning to get your hands on the ivory cam? Pentax says it’ll see a “limited distribution” at brick-and-mortar establishments and head to online shops this July.
Source: Pentax
The application of Nokia’s brand-name camera technology “PureView” is reportedly headed to AT&T in its original form, 41-megapixels strong and attached, this time, to Windows Phone 8. While the original 41-megapixel-toting Nokia 808 PureView was a smartphone running Symbian, here the Windows Phone version of the device is being tipped to hit the blue network
This multi-viewpoint robotic camera system, under development by NHK, links the motion of eight sub-cameras to that of an individual camera, so that all the cameras film the same moving object.
“Using this system, you can create the effect of stopping time, and moving the viewpoint all around the subject.”
“Previous methods used a fixed camera, so they could only capture subjects moving in a narrow or limited space. But this multi-viewpoint robot camera system can film dynamically moving sports, or subjects at lots of locations in an extensive space.”
Each robot camera has two motors, for pan and tilt. The cameras also share lens data, so they can zoom in unison.
“Pictures taken with robot cameras inevitably have discrepancies in direction control. So simply switching between them doesn’t give smooth pictures. To solve that problem, we’ve brought in a computer, which redoes the direction control virtually. Image processing is done, to virtually orient the cameras in the direction of the subject, making it possible to switch between the cameras.”
“Pictures from this system can be sent out about one minute after filming is finished. First of all, we intend to use this for live sports broadcasting. We’d like to make it easy to understand what’s happening, by providing multi-viewpoint pictures instead of the current slow-motion replay.”
This multi-viewpoint robotic camera system can also be used as an image capture system for integral 3D TV, under development by NHK. By generating integral 3D video from multiple-viewpoint footage, 3D video of sports events will be viewable on integral 3D TV.
Event: NHK Open House 2013
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Intel’s just announced the Creative Senz3D Peripheral Camera at the company’s Computex keynote in Taipei. The camera lets users manipulate objects on the screen using gestures and is able to completely eliminate the background. It appears to be an evolution of the Creative Interactive Gesture Camera we recently played with at IDF in Beijing. This new 3D depth camera is expected to become available next quarter and Intel plans to incorporate the technology into devices during the second half of 2014. “It’s like adding two eyes to my system,” said Tom Kilroy, VP of marketing. The company’s been talking about “perceptual computing” for some time and this certainly brings the idea one step closer to fruition.
Although there have been attempts at lensless cameras before, few of them would replace our point-and-shoots when they’re frequently expensive, or capture photos outside of the visible light spectrum. We shouldn’t have either of those problems with Bell Labs’ new prototype. The experiment uses an LCD as a grid of apertures that filter the light reaching a sensor. As that sensor can piece together an image simply by grabbing random aperture samples and correlating the data, it only needs a sliver of the usual information to produce a usable shot. The lens-free, mostly off-the-shelf approach could lower the costs of both the sensor and the overall camera, but it could also lead to simpler comparison tools: the correlation makes it easier to tell if an object is missing, for example. Bell Labs hasn’t talked about any production plans, but we have a hunch that Alcatel-Lucent would rather not let its research wing’s technology go to waste.
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Source: Cornell University Library
Since it arrived last year, the Galaxy S III
Thanko released a “self-shot stick” that you can use to mount your smartphone and take pictures of yourself over a meter away and at practically any angle.
The stick can be extended from 30cm up to 120cm. It can also attach to a digital camera or a tripod.
Before it gets extended, it’s only about 7cm long and can very easily be carried around in your bag.
Price: 1,980 yen (including tax)
Weight: 178g
Load capacity: 500g
It would appear that the SM-C101 has appeared with Samsung’s labels surrounding its simple drawings in the FCC here at the start of the weekend. This machine has recently been seen in places like Bluetooth certification and in codes for benchmarks, but here it becomes all-but-real. With quad-band GSM and the ability to connect with AT&T’s HSPA+, it presents a bit of an oddity: that means no 4G LTE.
What this device has most reliably been related to thus far is a yet-to-be-official “Galaxy S 4 Zoom”. This the “Zoom” would be a follow-up and replacement for the Samsung Galaxy Camera, a device that’s found quite a bit of popularity in the tech news reporting world due to its built-in Android abilities and ease in use. The facts that a Samsung event is coming up and the Galaxy Camera came out quite a few months ago at this point both aim directly at the idea that this is, indeed, the FCC first appearance of the device’s next-generation.
Inside you’ll also see NFC, Wi-fi connectivity, and Bluetooth 4.0. The machine has been rumored to take on a form factor closer to that of the GALAXY S 4 generation of devices, and it may even be a bit thinner than the Galaxy Camera, too! With the Samsung GALAXY S 4′s multiple camera abilities continuing to be a focus for its own sales, it’s not hard to imagine a similar push with a dedicated camera like this one.
It’s also been said that the Samsung Galaxy S 4 Zoom will work with a 4.3-inch qHD Super Amoled display, 8 GB of internal storage, and the ability to expand that storage by 64GB with its microSD card slot. This device has been rumored to be the first to usher in Samsung’s use of a 16-megapixel sensor on camera phones, as well, this suggesting that the machine will be more phone than camera – we shall see!
Samsung SM-C101 mystery smartphone hits FCC: may be Galaxy Camera reboot is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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