When you take a photo with your smartphone (or any other camera), you trust it to reproduce the colors in front of you in the most pleasing way possible. For some, “pleasing to the eye” is defined by bright, vibrant colors. For others, it’s a natural appearance.
But there’s no denying that no matter how your smartphone captures colors, they’re never the same across devices. This is the problem that the Belgian company Spectricity is trying to solve: the inconsistency of smartphone cameras, the fact that automatic white balancing is never reliable and that a white wall never actually appears white on a photo.
The company unveiled the first “multispectral camera in a smartphone” at CES, claiming its imaging solution is capable of capturing “true colors.” In other words, what you see is what you get.
“In most cases, the detected color cannot be distinguished from the true color with the naked eye”
How is it possible ? The multispectral camera, called S1, “measures the spectrum of light at 16 wavelengths, in every pixel of the camera,” according to the company’s press release.
“This camera brings unprecedented color accuracy from laboratory instruments to smartphones. In most cases, the detected color cannot be distinguished from the true color with the naked eye,” said Vincent Mouret, CEO of Spectricity. “This opens the door to e-commerce, for example to make personalized cosmetics remotely.”
Spectricity believes its imaging solution will be adopted by major smartphone makers within two years. And several equipment manufacturers are already testing it.
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Source: “ZDNet.com”