{"id":388310,"date":"2010-03-04T10:43:10","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T15:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wmpoweruser.com\/?p=13906"},"modified":"2010-03-04T10:43:10","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T15:43:10","slug":"garmin-asus-nuvifone-m10-uses-special-extended-depth-of-field-camera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/388310","title":{"rendered":"Garmin-Asus Nuvifone M10 uses special Extended Depth of Field camera"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"tweetmeme_button\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/api.tweetmeme.com\/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwmpoweruser.com%2F%3Fp%3D13906\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/api.tweetmeme.com\/imagebutton.gif?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwmpoweruser.com%2F%3Fp%3D13906&amp;source=WMPoweruser&amp;style=normal&amp;service=bit.ly\" height=\"61\" width=\"50\" \/><br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wmpoweruser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/m103.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px\" title=\"m103\" border=\"0\" alt=\"m103\" src=\"http:\/\/wmpoweruser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/m103_thumb.jpg\" width=\"519\" height=\"864\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Our friends at PDA.PL have come across a pretty interesting bit of information regarding the <a href=\"http:\/\/wmpoweruser.com\/?tag=garmin-asus-nuvifone-m10\" >Garmin-Asus Nuvifone M10<\/a>.&#160; The smartphone features a 5 megapixel camera, but unlike most high-end devices these days lack auto-focus.<\/p>\n<p>If now appears however that this is not by accident, and that Garmin-Asus are in fact implementing a new technology&#160; which means the vast majority of pictures will always be in focus.<\/p>\n<p>The M10 uses EDOF, which is short for Extended Depth Of Focus.&#160; This means the area that are in focus in any picture are greatly extended, and the need for auto-focus greatly diminished.<\/p>\n<p> The benefits are thinner phones and no need to wait for the camera to focus.&#160; Tests show anything beyond 20 cm always seem perfectly in focus, and means annoying issues like waiting for the camera to focus in poor light should be a thing of the past.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about the technology in this excerpt from a research paper below:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In<sup> <\/sup>this paper we present an approach to obtain an extended<sup> <\/sup>Depth-of-Field (DoF) for cell phone miniature camera by jointly optimizing<sup> <\/sup>optical system and post-capture digital processing techniques. Using a computational<sup> <\/sup>imaging approach, we demonstrate how to increase, to a useful<sup> <\/sup>operating range, the effective DoF of a specifically designed fixed<sup> <\/sup>focus lens operating e.g. at f\/2.8. This is achieved with<sup> <\/sup>a lens design where the longitudinal chromatic aberration has been<sup> <\/sup>increased. This increase is controlled so as to have, for<sup> <\/sup>any distance within the extended DoF, at least one colour<sup> <\/sup>channel of a RGB image which contains the in-focus scene<sup> <\/sup>information (e.g. high frequencies). By determining the sharpest colour (for<sup> <\/sup>each region in the digital image) and reflecting its sharpness<sup> <\/sup>on the others, we show that it is possible to<sup> <\/sup>get a sharp image for all colours through the merged<sup> <\/sup>DoF of the three of them. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>If you have come away completely confused, rather have a look at some <a href=\"http:\/\/pda.pl\/news\/jak_wygladaja_zdjecie_aparatu_edof_garminasus_m10\/\" >example pictures at PDA.Pl here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our friends at PDA.PL have come across a pretty interesting bit of information regarding the Garmin-Asus Nuvifone M10.&#160; The smartphone features a 5 megapixel camera, but unlike most high-end devices these days lack auto-focus. 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