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Regarding #27, is there anyone who is working on image processing for digital cameras?

Tichy 18y ago
Maybe the producers of digital cameras? Canon, Sony, Panasonic, Pentax, Samsung,...
busyant 18y ago
Apple (or someone like them) needs to make a digital camera with iPod simplicity. I bought my parents a digital camera a few years ago and it might as well have a plutonium core the way my parents deal with it. Primarily they hand it to me on social occasions and say, "take some pictures...I don't know how to use this thing" Just a simple camera with these features and nothing more: 1. on/off button 2. zoom in /out 3. take picture 4. review pictures 5. delete picture 6. transfer all pictures to walmart via wifi (you walk into the store, press a button and walmart slurps them up). I'd do it, but as pg says, hardware scares me.
- LogicHoleFlaw 18y ago
  You can get rid of a lot of those buttons too. Have it be instant-on so you don't need a power button. Just snap the photo. Get rid of the zoom. You can move yourself in / out physically if you need to be closer. Forget the delete button too. Flash memory is expansive enough that you shouldn't have to worry about it on the hardware. Make the camera have a shutter button, some simple way to view the pictures you have taken so far, and do all the rest in software in some sort of picasa/itunes-quality app.
  - busyant 18y ago
    i debated on keeping the zoom feature or not. yes. you can really strip that sucker down and have an iphone-like interface (i.e. touch w/o real buttons).
- corentin 18y ago
  > hardware scares me What you describe is something like 90% (if not more) design and software (including embedded software). The hardware part mostly consists in integrating a few existing high-level components, most of them dealing with digital signals,
pixcavator 18y ago
What I meant by image processing, as an example, is face detection. They already do that for some cameras, but that’s just the tip of an iceberg. You can attach a digital camera to a microscope (or a telescope) and detect cells (or stars). Or consider home security...

Tichy 18y ago

Maybe the producers of digital cameras? Canon, Sony, Panasonic, Pentax, Samsung,...

Apple (or someone like them) needs to make a digital camera with iPod simplicity. I bought my parents a digital camera a few years ago and it might as well have a plutonium core the way my parents deal with it. Primarily they hand it to me on social occasions and say, "take some pictures...I don't know how to use this thing" Just a simple camera with these features and nothing more: 1. on/off button 2. zoom in /out 3. take picture 4. review pictures 5. delete picture 6. transfer all pictures to walmart via wifi (you walk into the store, press a button and walmart slurps them up). I'd do it, but as pg says, hardware scares me.

LogicHoleFlaw 18y ago
You can get rid of a lot of those buttons too. Have it be instant-on so you don't need a power button. Just snap the photo. Get rid of the zoom. You can move yourself in / out physically if you need to be closer. Forget the delete button too. Flash memory is expansive enough that you shouldn't have to worry about it on the hardware. Make the camera have a shutter button, some simple way to view the pictures you have taken so far, and do all the rest in software in some sort of picasa/itunes-quality app.
- busyant 18y ago
  i debated on keeping the zoom feature or not. yes. you can really strip that sucker down and have an iphone-like interface (i.e. touch w/o real buttons).
corentin 18y ago
> hardware scares me What you describe is something like 90% (if not more) design and software (including embedded software). The hardware part mostly consists in integrating a few existing high-level components, most of them dealing with digital signals,

pixcavator 18y ago

What I meant by image processing, as an example, is face detection. They already do that for some cameras, but that’s just the tip of an iceberg. You can attach a digital camera to a microscope (or a telescope) and detect cells (or stars). Or consider home security...