Qualcomm Demoes Snapdragon 805 Camera Features Including OptiZoom, Action Shot And Chroma Flash

[alv3st3r]

Qualcomm Snapdragon 805 processors can track objects and enhance the legibility of text and sharpness. This combination allows users to lock onto objects and automatically zoom in on them—even if they’re moving.

Source: WMPU

 

[alv3st3r]

With the Snapdragon 805 processor, you can lock onto objects and track them within the frame. Once an object is identified and locked you can set a line onscreen and once the object crosses that line, it will begin capturing video.

Source: WMPU

 

[alv3st3r]

The Snapdragon 805 processor can improve the quality of flash photography by almost simultaneously taking a flash and a non-flash version of the same subject matter and combining the 2 images in the most optimal way.

Source: WMPU

 

[a5cent]

I'm not sure how useful the image tracking capabilities are. Not just because I see few opportunities to use those features, but also because I'm sceptical it would work well outside lab settings (not just a bottle being slowly moved across a uniform background). Merging the flash/non-flash images does sound very interesting to me however. I hope Qualcomm or MS finally offer a DSP based solution for HDR photography too.

I'd bet that the rumoured Goldfinger will ship with the S805, still, none of this will be visible to the customer if the OS doesn't expose those features through the UI, so it's still... wait and see.