The popular chipset manufacturer has announced a new camera technology designed for Android ecosystem. It comes as an expansion to the Qualcomm Spectra Module Program, and will be implemented into its Snapdragon Mobile chipsets in the future.
The new camera architecture is able to read how close an object is to the camera, and map out a 3D object. It is designed advancements in computer vision, image quality and power efficiency and the camera module program will include a trio of camera modules, including an iris authentication module, a passive depth sensing module, and an active depth sensing module.
"Whether used for computational photography, video recording, or for computer vision applications that require accurate motion tracking, it's clear that power efficient camera image signal processing has become more important for the next generation of mobile user experiences," said Tim Leland, vice president of product management, Qualcomm Technologies Inc. "Our breakthrough advancements in visual quality and computer vision, combined with our family of integrated Qualcomm Spectra ISPs for Snapdragon, are designed to support an ecosystem of cutting edge mobile applications for our customers."
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