Symbian licenses Scalado’s imaging technology
By Dusan Belic on Friday, June 20th, 2008 at 10:49 AM PST In Announcements, Symbian
A month ago we wrote how Scalado’s CAPS imaging technology is chosen as reference component to ship within Symbian OS. Now we have Symbian going out to officially sign a licensing agreement with Scalado to bring their “state of the art image handling capabilities” to Symbian OS.
Scalado’s solution for Symbian OS will significantly improve Symbian’s imaging performance for higher megapixel images. It will deliver faster rendering, scaling and rotation and superior image editing features – with the added benefit of reduced memory consumption. Importantly, Scalado’s patented Random Access JPEG technology allows imaging operations to occur while the image is in compressed form, greatly reducing RAM consumption.
Symbian will offer Symbian OS with built-in Scalado’s technology free of any additional royalties to Symbian OS licensees, starting from Symbian OS version 9.3 and higher. End users will enjoy higher usability while handset makers will see a cut in hardware costs.
To make things work smoothly, the two companies will create a joint team of skilled imaging and camera engineers.
I don’t understand how handset makers will see a cut in hardware costs
Scalado’s (and Symbian for that matter) technology is super optimized, hence less hardware is needed.
Take N95 for example (that’s Symbian example), it runs on 330Mhz CPU yet can take videos in 640×480 resolution — something that even today’s Windows Mobile phones with 500Mhz CPU can’t do.
OOOhhhhhhh makes sense
Thanks Dusan!
That makes me feel alot better about owning a symbian device
@dusanb
CPU Speed is not measured in megahertz.
The OMAP processor used in N95 natively supports VGA30fps therefore it’s less about optimization although it counts