White Paper V600
Imaging and Entertainment
1.3 Megapixel camera
With the integrated 1.3 Megapixel camera with digital zoom, the user can take pictures and video clips and save them in the phone memory. The user can send them as an attachment in an email or via MMS. The pictures or video clips can also be sent via Bluetooth, infrared or cable.
A large viewfinder is presented in the display and QuickShare™ offers a minimal number of steps that take you to the send options as follows:
•3 steps for camera: start, capture and send.
•3 steps for video: start, capture and send.
Burst mode
A useful function when taking photos of objects that move quickly in the scene: it rapidly takes 4 pictures in a row automatically.
Image formats
The camera is able to take pictures in the following resolutions:
•Small - QQVGA (160x120 pixels)
•Medium - VGA (640x480 pixels)
•Large - 1.3 Megapixel (1280x1024 pixels)
Using the camera or video
The camera and video is started via the active lens cover, via the camera button or via the phone menu system.
Megapixel pictures
Megapixel pictures can be used when a larger viewing area is required, for example, when uploading a picture to a computer.
Shoot modes
There is a number of different shoot modes for different user scenarios:
Frames
A shoot mode that lets you apply funny
Panorama pictures
The camera can create panorama pictures by stitching together several different pictures into one large picture. This is done with the help of a unique image processing technique.
This feature is very user friendly. The user simply takes a picture and then moves the camera slightly sideways and then takes a new picture. This can be repeated several times until the user selects to save the panorama where all the different pictures are stitched together.
Video format
Video clips can be recorded, played and sent using the following codec:
• 3GPP (H.263 and AMR)
More camera features
The camera has full automatic exposure control that selects the optimal exposure time needed to get an excellent picture. When operating the view- finder, the camera adjusts the exposure time.
The lighting conditions found indoors and outdoors may differ significantly. This may give rise to false colours in photographs. To compensate for this, the Megapixel camera is equipped with automatic white balance. This feature automatically adjusts for different lighting environments in order to produce images with correct colours under most con- ditions.
The camera also has a high quality light to improve taking pictures in darker environments.
21 | August 2005 |