Philippe Kahn tries to strike a balance
CARLSBAD, Calif.--After a shaky start, tech veteran Philippe Kahn impressed the crowd at D by showing how his company's motion-sensing technology could be used to stabilize a blurry cell phone photo.
Kahn's Fullpower Technologies was the first of several companies invited to do a no-slides tech demo at the conference. Kahn drew the ire of Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg when he tried to sneak in some PowerPoint.
The last moments were interesting, though, as Kahn and a co-worker took an iPhone photo and showed it as initially captured and then stabilized using their technology. The best way to explain it is just to show it. Below are the stabilized and unstabilized photos.
Here's the unstabilized shot:
Here is the original shot, as seen on a monitor.
(Credit: Ina Fried/CNET)And here's the one stabilized using Fullpower's technology:
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In the first one the guy has his hand up. In the 2nd he doesn't.
- by eadeguzman May 28, 2009 10:06 AM PDT
- Ina, can you clarify if this technology stabilizes the image/photo during capture or can it be applied to any image, say one that was scanned from an analog camera?
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(3 Comments)If it's the latter, then a3th3r and BillPSudios are correct, the images above does not prove anything.
If it's the former, how is it different from technologies already built-in on today's cameras? (maybe this technology is successful - all the time?)