Toshiba’s new smartphone camera takes pictures first and then focuses

Toshiba recently announced the launch of a new smartphone camera module that can realize the function of "taking pictures first and then focusing". It is reported that this module is similar to the Lytro light field camera technology released by Toshiba two years ago.

The new camera module released by Toshiba can realize this function directly from the hardware device, and is applicable to smartphones and tablets. It is reported that many manufacturers, including Nokia, are also very interested in this kind of imaging technology that "takes pictures first and then focuses" and has been continuously researching and developing it.

The model of this camera module is TCM9518MD. It contains two 5-megapixel image sensors and a dedicated processing chip, which can produce shooting effects that traditional cameras cannot achieve. Take macro photography as an example. After completing the image shooting, the user can freely select the focus of the image and directly determine whether the focus of the image is the foreground object or the background.

Similar to this technology is Pelican

Imaging. It is reported that Nokia invested in Pelican last year

Imaging, hoping to expand in this technology market Get a piece of the pie.

In fact, Toshiba announced as early as 2012 that it was developing a camera that can realize the "take pictures first and then focus" technology, but apparently Toshiba abandoned the original technical route and replaced it with a newer technology. For simple technology. Now, Toshiba has announced that it has produced prototype equipment of this new technology and recommends that equipment manufacturers can produce small quantities and enter the market to observe the market response. If this technology is as perfect as Toshiba claims, I believe it will be launched on the market at a cost within a year.

Toshiba said it will demonstrate this new technology at this week’s CES conference, so let us wait and see whether this technology is easy to use or not.