Tech-On quotes KGI Securities Investment Advisory (Taiwan) analyst Ming-Chi Kuo predicting that the long rumored Amazon's "
smartphone will come with six camera modules, four of which will be used for gesture-based control and other user interfaces (UIs) that detect the user's motions. Kuo considers that the cost for procuring the camera modules is US$40-50 per phone."
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Amazon's smartphone cameras, as predicted by
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BGR partially confirms the story through its own sources. The phone is expected to be available in Q2 2014.
The 4 VGAs must be passive stereo of some sort. Seems like overkill.
ReplyDeletewonder how they connected six cameras to the application processor
ReplyDeleteI assume the there is a stereo ASIC for each pair of stereo cameras, but that still leaves four inputs.
ReplyDeleteStitching data from four VGA cameras in a PLD isn't very hard, even at 60+ fps. Collectively it's still less than 1080p.
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