Google Backs Company Making Smartphones as Good as 'Real' Cameras
Glass Imaging can dramatically improve the quality of smartphone images and just landed a cash infusion led by Google Ventures.
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Glass Imaging can dramatically improve the quality of smartphone images and just landed a cash infusion led by Google Ventures.
Your phone's camera is as much software as it is hardware, and Glass is hoping to improve both. But while its wild anamorphic lens creeps to market, the
GlassAI is a purely software approach to improving images, what they call a neural image signal processor (ISP). ISPs are basically what take the raw sensor output — often flat, noisy and distorted — and turn that into the sharp, colorful images we see. The ISP is also increasingly complex, as phone makers like Apple and Google like to show, synthesizing multiple exposures, quickly detecting and sharpening faces, adjusting for tiny movements, and so on.
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