Andy Rubin who is also known as the father of Android unveiled his most ambitious phone, the Essential Phone in May. The bezel-less phone carries all the bells and whistles and a lot more. One of the highlights is the dual camera setup which the company claims to be “world’s thinnest dual camera system built for a phone.”
This feature of the Essential Phone is in the news once again and we get to know in details the complex mechanism behind the Essential Phone’s dual-lens camera and its performance. Essential’s image quality engineer Yazhu Ling, in a blog post, reveals that she’s been working on the Essential Phone’s camera since October last year with the sensor tuning beginning in January. Since then, the cameras have gone through 15 major tuning with the team clicking and going through some 20,000 photos and videos.
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The reason behind this extensive work is the company’s desire to build a camera without the hump without affecting the low-light.
When we set out to build the rear-facing camera for our phone our primary goal was to have a camera without the telltale bump and have it integrated seamlessly into the overall design. However we were not willing to sacrifice image-quality in low light which is a common point of frustration for many people who rely on their phone’s camera. In a nifty bit of engineering we were able to accomplish both those goals.
The Essential Phone houses two camera lenses — one full RGB and the other monochrome. The RGB lens assigns color values while the monochrome lens assigns a black or white value to an image. The final image combines these two images by using a complex Image Signal Processing pipeline.
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This same process is applied by Huawei and Motorola in their devices. The most recent smartphone to come with RGB and monochrome lens is Moto Z2 Force.
Although unveiled last month, Essential Phone is yet to hit the markets with Andy Rubin reassuring the sale to start next month. Meanwhile, the company seems to be in rough water after multiple executive departures which possibly could be the reason behind the delay in the availability of the Essential Phone.
Via: GSMArena
