Scalado, which develops mobile imaging software solutions, and Alma Technologies, which specializes in image and video compression IP cores, have released details of the first JPEG compression IP core supporting Scalado SpeedTags technology. This latest development from Scalado is the first to include both the Scalado Camera Engine and Scalado SpeedTags and will be demonstrated at the Image Sensor Summit in California.
With Scalado’s new ‘zero shutter lag’ feature, however, users can be sure that the image which they see in the viewfinder is the image that they capture. Users can then instantly zoom into the resulting JPEG images to review the details of the image in real-time. Scalado’s CAPS imaging SDK is now being used in 200 million mobile handsets. The company currently has its software embedded in more than 50 different cameraphone models, from five out of the six leading handset OEMs. Here is the demo video
