Next Generation of Android Camera API...

Samsung Galaxy NX brings Android to interchangeable lens cameras

I guess this shouts “game on”?  It is generally known that Android as a design started as a camera control system that morphed into the open source and dominating hand-held communicator OS with digital camera as a central core feature.  Not certain exactly what this is going to offer our kit but I feel there is an opportunistic moment right in front of us.

GizMag June 22, 2013  By Simon Crisp

They have a second camera, the NX-1 just now available,  that does not express Android as the running OS but what it does provide is as state of the art imager and superior 4K stream and recorder as there is on the market. Its feature set has rattled SONY, Canon and Nikon… the industry stunned that Samsung’s drive into hybrid mirror-less still/video has yielded such a technical disruption.  Most importantly internally it offers some of the first 4K content generated with a H.265 compression.  H.265 is the next generation of compression technique that allows its 4K frame resolution to be distributed across the ether-net of mobile phones, home and office at the same bit-rate as 1080p and H.264 compression.  The compression requires more horsepower to negotiate the decode process and  very few viewers are now able to handle this. The H.265 is squarely in the MPEG-LA group.  Its correleant as an open source solution is a VP9 from Google’s effort to help with aggregated internet traffic. It is only recently 4K monitors have come to market.  What we are quite interested in is the extraction of the 4K frame to JPEG and then how that content can be sorted and processed. 

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