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The struggling Japanese-Swedish mobile phone venture, Sony Ericsson, isn’t exactly seeing their mobile phones flying off the proverbial shelf. With the company announcing employee layoffs and a retail store shutdown, Sony Ericsson had better inject some serious “cool” into their handset portfolio if they want to remain a viable mobile phone manufacturer. This latest patent application could help Sony Ericsson do just that.
While this patent doesn’t scream innovation, it sure is cool. According to the patent application, Sony Ericsson envisions future cameraphones (with a 12 megapixel monster possibly coming in 2009) using accelerometers and proximity sensors to detect motion and body proximity - subsequently translating that movement into camera zooming commands. So, when you move a future Sony Ericsson cameraphone away from your body, the camera might just zoom in. Moving the cameraphone towards your body might just have that camera zooming out.
Sony Ericsson automatic zooming camera
[Via: UnwiredView]
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Will Park
Will hails from The City of Angels - Los Angeles, California. He spends his time playing with his numerous gadgets and looking forward to seeing what future holds for mobile technology. An avid promoter of a fully "digital" life, he promotes the widespread adoption of truly mobile, paper-less living. He dreams of the day when he can go completely digital. No more snail mail, paper receipts, bound books, notepads/spiral notebooks, credit cards, hard currency. He's a digital warrior - fighting for the converged life. He is an idealist and a realist - he has a perfect view of what the world should be but knows that the world is not perfect. Can we ever hope to see Will's dream become reality? We'll see...
