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The smartphone trend of two rear cameras for aesthetic account shots is so common that alike bargain account phones action bifold lenses on the back. That could change abutting as aboriginal as abutting year as new dent technology from Qualcomm makes it accessible to booty a Bokeh account photo from a distinct camera lens.
It's agnate to the Google Pixel 2, which bucks the dual-camera accepted now adopted by around every added high-end phone, admitting that accessory absolutely gives us a archetypal of what's accessible application software alone.
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The technology comes bottomward to AI algorithms candy aural the Snapdragon 845 dent that Qualcomm appear this anniversary at an anniversary summit. Qualcomm's Snapdragon processors are acclimated in the majority of high-end smartphones, area their capabilities anatomy the courage of what phones like the abutting Samsung Galaxy, LG, Motorola and OnePlus phones can do. Qualcomm faces antagonism on the high-end from Apple, Huawei and to a assertive amount Samsung, which await on their own house-made chipsets (a allocation of Samsung phones run on the Exynos processor, about for Asian markets).
Being able to booty account shots on a distinct camera lens can advice phonemakers afford the amount of a additional camera array. Alternatively, phones with a additional camera lens that's acclimated for abacus detail but not account becloud -- like a connected camera -- can action the affection on the ascendant lens.
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The bokeh or depth-of-field aftereffect -- which cautiously blurs the accomplishments while befitting the photo's accountable in focus -- is a aftereffect from DSLR cameras that Apple affected with the iPhone 7 Plus.
"In a smartphone, you charge to account a abyss map," said Tim Leland, Qualcomm's carnality admiral of artefact management. "That abyss map again gets fed into addition system, which again applies a abetment or abashing of those pixels in a altered way that mimics the bokeh effect."
Smartphone makers about accomplish bokeh with two lenses, which actualize a affectionate of stereo aftereffect to accomplish a faculty of depth. Qualcomm's access with its feature, which it calls Deep Portrait, is to run the angel through a computational neural arrangement that applies bogus intelligence to actuate the accountable from the background.
"You don't appetite to becloud somebody's face for archetype or accidentally becloud somebody's hair," Leland said.
Qualcomm isn't suggesting that phones should canal a two-camera system, or that bokeh portraits taken with software rather than camera accouterments are college quality. In fact, Leland acclaimed that the algorithms could advance the abashing accurateness of two camera lenses.
"AI is one of those things area you can't necessarily do article after it," he said. "But it makes it better."
As the Google Pixel and Pixel 2 prove with their Lens Becloud feature, you can booty bokeh portraits application software alone. Traditional computer eyes can already admit animosity types of altar by attractive at specific patterns of allegory pixels. Bogus intelligence recognizes altar in their absoluteness over time. For example, appearance an AI affairs bags of photos of chairs and over time it will admit what is and isn't a chair. Bogus intelligence aims to acceleration up the process.
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