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Nokia invests $1.55 million in Japanese image processing software company

Categories: Nokia, Research, Technologies
By: , IntoMobile
Monday, February 25th, 2008 at 5:20 PM

Nokia Growth Partners, the VC’s internally who make sure Nokia is prepared for the future, have poured $1.55 million in Morpho, a Japanese company that specializes in using software to enhance both image and video capture in mobile phones. PhotoSolid is a solution that requires absolutely no new hardware, yet gives image stabilization as seen below. Motion (Face) Tracking, which Sony Ericsson implemented in their latest Cybershot branded mobile phones, is also one of their talents.

[Via: SMS Text News]

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After:

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I’ve seen, first hand at the Symbian Smartphone Show, the power of software combined with ridiculously fast processors, think OMAP 3, noticeably reduce image blur. Time will tell how long until these kind of solutions are actually integrated into future Nokia devices.

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Stefan Constantinescu (@WhatTheBit on Twitter) has loved technology since as far back as he can remember. It started with computers, but in the past few years his passion has turned to mobile devices. As a mobile phone enthusiast who lives and breathes devices that connect to the internet, he knows he is not alone with this radical fascination of all things wireless. He is strongly opinionated and enjoys a good debate so leave comments in his posts and he’ll get back to you! Stefan began blogging as a hobby in the fall of 2006 and joined IntoMobile in the summer of 2007. Later he got a job at Nokia in March 2008, but as of June 2009 he has rejoined the IntoMobile team. He is currently based out of Helsinki, Finland.

  • reptile18

    Hope its soon.

  • PlayerKill

    Me too.

  • Topy

    That’s nice. Good that they are really making some other changes than just adding megapixels.

  • Varun

    Nokia might kill SE’s Cameraphone market share !

  • Jack

    But dont Nokia already have kill SE-cameraphones?
    All my friends N95 and N82 take better pics then my friends SE-phones and that include video.

    But hope this be soon >>Nokia is prepared for the future, have poured $1.55 million in Morpho, a Japanese company that specializes in using software to enhance both image and video capture in mobile phones