This tweak brings the iPhone’s Camera app user interface to the iPad

If you have both an iPhone and an iPad, then you should already know that each device's Camera app has a different look and feel to it.

The iPad's Camera app interface is built with a larger display in mind, making some tools more readily accessible. On the other hand, many use their iPhone for photography more often and would prefer having the same familiar experience on their iPad.

Enter a new free jailbreak tweak called iPhone Cam for iPad by iOS developer Adel Hammoud. As the name implies, this tweak ports the iPhone-style Camera user interface to your jailbroken iPad so that the photography experience feels one and the same across your devices.

After you install the tweak, you should notice a difference in the way your iPad's Camera app looks immediately. It does away with the side-based controls and moves them to the top and bottom of the screen instead, just like on your iPhone.

The tweak also unlocks the live filters that Apple disables on iPads by default, letting you get the most out of your tablet photography without needing third-party filtering apps to perform similar tasks:

If you're used to the way the iPad's Camera app already looks, then this tweak could be a polarizing experience for you. While it won't be for everyone, iPhone Cam for iPad will get the job done if you've always wanted an iPhone-style Camera app on your iPad.

For years, I've always stood behind tweaks that port features from one device to another because it puts all kinds of options on the table for jailbreakers. Whether the iPhone Camera UI makes photography easier on the iPad is a moot point, but your mileage will vary depending on your photography technique and which interface you prefer using.

If you're interested in giving iPhone Cam for iPad a try, then you can download it for free from Cydia's BigBoss repository. The tweak doesn't come with any options to configure and works with all jailbroken iPads running iOS 10.

Which Camera interface do you prefer on your iPad? Share your thoughts in the comments section below.

Source: This tweak brings the iPhone's Camera app user interface to the iPad

GoPro Unveils Hero6, Launches Fusion Spherical Camera

GoPro also today introduced new mounts and accessories, plus new Follow and Watch modes for its Karma drone.

GoPro on Thursday unveiled its next-generation action camera, the Hero6.

Powered by GoPro's custom-designed GP1 processor, the Hero6 is capable of capturing 4K, 60 frames per second and 1080p240 video. It also features "the most advanced video stabilization ever achieved in a GoPro," the company said.

GoPro also today launched Fusion—a waterproof, mountable 5.2K spherical camera it's been testing since April—plus new mounts and accessories, and new Follow and Watch modes for its Karma drone.

The Hero6 Black offers "dramatically improved dynamic range and low-light performance," plus an all-new touch zoom, and three times faster footage transfer to your phone than its predecessors via 5GHz Wi-Fi, GoPro said. It's waterproof to 33 feet (10m) and compatible with Karma and existing GoPro mounts. You can control it with your voice in 10 languages.

The Hero6 is designed to work with the QuikStories, a feature in the GoPro app that automatically creates short, shareable videos from your footage.

"Hero6's next-level image quality, video stabilization and three times faster QuikStories performance makes it a powerful storytelling extension of your smartphone," GoPro CEO Nick Woodman said in a statement. "It's never been easier to live it, then share it… using GoPro."

The new GP1 processor enables "twice the video frame rates" over previous Hero camera generations, GoPro said. It also advances GoPro's computer vision and machine learning capabilities, allowing the Hero6 to analyze visual scenes and sensor data for better QuikStories.

Hero6 is available now at retailers worldwide and GoPro.com for $499.

The new Fusion virtual reality camera has two lenses: one on the front and another on the back; it captures immersive, 5.2K spherical video and 18MP spherical photos. It's waterproof to 16 feet (5m) and offers advanced stabilization; 360-degree audio; and a bunch of different modes, including time-lapse video and photo, night lapse, and burst.

It also offers voice control and is compatible with the GoPro app, from which you can play back and share your footage as VR content. A cool new app feature called OverCapture will let you create traditional, fixed-perspective video from your 360-footage, GoPro said.

Fusion is available for pre-order now for $699, and is slated to start shipping in November.

Meanwhile, GoPro's Karma drone is getting two new auto-shot paths: Follow and Watch. The Follow path trails the Karma Controller, framing you in the shot while the new Watch auto-shot path will keep the Controller (and you) in frame while the drone hovers in place.

Finally, GoPro also today announced a new pocket-sized extension pole and tripod called Shorty; an updated floating handgrip with a quick-release mounting feature called The Handler; and the Bike Mount + Floaty, which the company said is "ideal" for point-of-view shots.

Source: GoPro Unveils Hero6, Launches Fusion Spherical Camera

Camera Tuner App for Moto X4 Lands in the Play Store

Motorola's latest app that is now available in the Play Store, is one that is available only for the Moto X4. The new Moto X4 is slated to be released fairly soon, after it was announced to be coming to the US as an Android One smartphone on Google's Project Fi network, and it appears that Motorola is getting ready for its release.

According to the description on the Google Play store, this app will give users an easy way to "update the cameras to the latest photo and video tuning parameters." It goes on to note that "from time to time we'll make updates to improve color, contrast, picture noise, video noise and sharpness." So this isn't a full-on camera app, which Motorola already has in the Google Play Store for its other devices, but simply an app for Motorola to push out updates to adjust the way pictures come out of the camera on the Moto X4. It's likely that this is needed for the Moto X4 since it is an Android One device, which is essentially AOSP, without any real additions. And that means none of Motorola's other features that you'll find on other smartphones like Moto Display, Moto Voice and others. It appears to be a rather simple app, and one that users won't even have to worry about.

The Moto X4 is a pretty big departure from the first three generations of the Moto X. It sports an aluminum build, and has a 5.2-inch 1920×1080 resolution display. It is powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 630 chipset with 3GB of RAM and 32GB of internal storage. Now Motorola has included a micro SD card slot here to expand storage, should you need it. And since this is running, essentially, stock Android there will be support for Adoptable Storage. There is a dual-camera setup on the back, with a 12-megapixel sensor and a 8-megapixel sensor. Along with a 16-megapixel front-facing camera. There is also a 3000mAh battery that is rechargeable using USB-C and Quick Charge 3.0 from Qualcomm. The Moto X4 is going to be launching in the next few weeks, although there is not yet any details on when exactly that will happen.

Source: Camera Tuner App for Moto X4 Lands in the Play Store

Moto X4 camera tuner app uploaded in Play Store ahead of the phone's official launch

Earlier, smartphone manufacturers usually rolled out full OTA updates in order to substantially improve the camera experience on their smartphones. However, the trend is changing. Today, manufacturers are uploading individual applications to the Play Store so they can bring updates to their phones much faster.

Motorola amongst others has been quick to adapt to the trend and it has more or less become common for the company to upgrade the performance of a phone's camera after release. If you recall, in 2016 Motorola had used an app in the Play Store to make changes to the Moto G4's camera and its performance. And this year, yet again it looks like the company is following the same path to managing the camera on its upcoming Moto X4.

The company has just uploaded a tuning app for Moto X4 just ahead of its official launch. The app comes with updated camera parameters for enhanced photos and videos. Basically, this app will get pre-installed on the device and are then updated via the Play Store. The app will work only with Moto X4 but that is pretty much we know as we have few details about this app.

Meanwhile, the screenshots in the Play Store simply show the system settings page and a placeholder image with the options to disable or force stop the app. According to the listing, this module will be used to improve "color, contrast, picture noise, video noise, and sharpness."

In any case, Moto X4 is scheduled to launch on October 3 in India. Since the smartphone has already been showcased at IFA 2017 we already know what the smartphone has to offers. However, just to recall, a 5.2-inch FHD 1080p display with Corning Gorilla Glass, an octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 630 processor paired with Adreno 508 GPU, 3GB RAM and 32GB of internal storage space. The smartphone is backed by a 3000mAh battery which also comes with Turbo Power charging.

The key highlight of the smartphone is its rear dual camera setup comprising of a 12MP main camera with f/2.0 aperture and an 8MP secondary camera with ultra-wide angle lens, f/2.2 aperture and a 120-degree field of view sensor. The dual cameras also come with dual LED flash, PDAF, and other features like Landmark Detection application that lets users point the lens at an object and it will ask the users if they want to get details about the object they are seeing. This feature also scans business cards and adds the information to the contacts.

Up front, Moto X4 is equipped with a 16MP selfie camera with a flash, f/2.0 aperture and features such as selfie panorama, Face Filters to add animations to the selfies, and adaptive low light mode.

Connectivity options include NFC, Bluetooth 5.0, Wi-Fi 802.11ac (dual-band, 2.4GHz, and 5GHz), GPS, GLONASS, 4G LTE, and FM radio support. Sensors onboard include an accelerometer, ambient light sensor, gyroscope, magnetometer, and proximity sensor. The dimensions of the Moto X4 are at 148.35x73.4x7.99mm, and the smartphone weighs 163 grams.

Source: Moto X4 camera tuner app uploaded in Play Store ahead of the phone's official launch

Motorola Uploads a Camera Tuner App for the Moto X4 in the Play Store

Traditionally, OEMs have needed to push out full OTA updates if they wanted to substantially improve the camera experience of their smartphone. We then started to see certain companies uploading individual applications (such as the camera application) to the Play Store so they can be updated much faster. Lately, Motorola has gone a different route and has chosen to upload tuner applications to the Play Store for specific devices they have released.

As mentioned, Motorola has down down all of these routes in the past. The company used to only update their camera's performance when there was a new OTA update pushed out to devices. This was never an optimal solution for anyone since it cost the company time and resources to certify each OTA update. So this means updates would be rare and they sometimes wouldn't even reach some of the company's aging devices since they no longer receive OTA updates.

We then saw Motorola upload their camera to the Play Store and as of right now, they have the Moto Mods Camera, the Moto Camera, the Motorola Camera and then the Moto Camera 2. It's possible that Motorola wasn't happy with this method as it led to them uploading multiple cameras and newer updates could have caused conflicts with older devices. So then we started to see the company upload camera tuner applications for specific devices (like the Moto X4) to the Play Store.

So far, they have one of these for the Moto G Play, the Moto G4, and the Moto G5S. These camera tuner applications get pre-installed on the device and are then updated via the Play Store. These allow for Motorola to improve the color, contrast, picture noise, video noise, and sharpness all from this one tuner application. Today, they have uploaded one of these camera tuner applications for the Moto X4 ahead of its official release.

Via: Android Police
Source: Motorola Uploads a Camera Tuner App for the Moto X4 in the Play Store

Paranoid Android updated to 7.3.0, adds its own camera app, launcher tweaks, and BlueBorne fixes

Our readers are probably quite familiar with Paranoid Android, as the developers behind AOSPA have been prolific over the last few months. The latest update for the ROM, v7.3.0, brings a lot of changes. But the biggest addition doubles down on the project's earlier commitment to photo quality. As of today, Paranoid Android has its own camera app.

  

It looks exceedingly simple, but that's deceptive. You swipe left and right to change between video, photo, and panorama modes. The shutter is big and obvious. Right from that is the front/back camera toggle, and you have a simple gallery on the left. Slide up, and you get basic toggles for things like HDR and a grid. And, if you tap the little settings cog, almost all the options you could want are present.

There are a lot of overly complicated camera apps out there, and I'm glad AOSPA took a more basic approach to the app's layout. It looks simple, but it has the extra configurations tucked away that you might need once in a while. Generally speaking, if I want manual controls, I'm going to use something better than my phone to take a photo. The best advantage to the simple up-front appearance is that I can hand a phone with this app open to anyone, and they'd understand it immediately.

I would have loved to test the app on my OnePlus 3 since AOSPA built their own camera binaries for it. I'm interested in seeing if the two work together in any special way. Unfortunately, we had somewhat short notice for this release, and I needed my OP3 for another project at the time.

Launcher tweaks.

I'm a huge fan of the launcher included in Paranoid Android. I think it's the best of any ROM I've ever used. So it's good to see that the AOSPA devs aren't resting. I wish more ROMs would pay attention to the quality of their launcher.

Among the included changes to the launcher are the ability to hide apps from the drawer and home screen, support for round icons, dock color options, and app-specific custom icons. That gives you a lot of new options for further personalizing your home screen and overall launcher experience.

The full changelog (non-device specific) is just below.

ImprovementsInclude reworked camera app: Paranoid CameraInclude new Launcher features, fixes and improvementsInclude experimental support for simultaneous use of color engine and SubstratumInclude new security patches Include various performance improvementsInclude various stability fixes and minor improvementsFix GPS issues with "Waze" and other appsFix Trusted Face Fix possible Immersive Mode force closeFix bluetooth connectivity issuesFix various theming issuesFix data integrity issuesFix multiple frameworks resource and memory leaks

A few phones, like the Le Pro 3 and the OnePlus 3/3T also have a pretty big list of individual fixes and changes. Almost all supported devices have also been patched against the BlueBorne vulnerability. For the full changelog, you can check the Google+ post for this update. Downloads for AOSPA are available here.

If you're a fan, or you just like the fact that AOSPA exists, keep in mind that the project is starting to have problems with server capacity these days. They're accepting both donations and infrastructure contributions if you've got some spare server space handy. You can reach out to the developers for more details.

Source: Paranoid Android updated to 7.3.0, adds its own camera app, launcher tweaks, and BlueBorne fixes

Apple Even Studied Paintings to Improve the Camera in iPhone 8 Plus and iPhone X

Posted by Evan Selleck on Sep 22, 2017 in iPhone 8, iPhone X

The camera in the iPhone 8 Plus is, according to the renowned DxO Mark ranking system, spectacular. This is a sentiment that was echoed in a variety of reviews for the handset, too.

And now, BuzzFeed News has sat down with Apple Senior Vice President Phil Schiller and other executives to discuss the new camera system that is in place within the iPhone 8 Plus and the upcoming iPhone X. Schiller, unsurprisingly, is in love with the camera system in both devices, and he is very eager to talk about the process that Apple went through to reach the levels that they did. For Apple it wasn't just about studying photography, but about lighting in general, and that meant the company "didn't just study portrait photography. We went all the way back to paint."

The new dual-camera system in both the iPhone 8 Plus and the iPhone X don't rely on filters to get the staged look that many photo apps have to rely on. Instead, Apple relies on machine learning and the camera system to sense depth, map the depth in the image, and then quickly change lighting contours over whatever the subject of the picture is. The new "Portrait Lighting" effect will only be available on the iPhone 8 Plus and iPhone X, with the iPhone 8 using only a single camera system on the back.

"If you look at the Dutch Masters and compare them to the paintings that were being done in Asia, stylistically they're different," Johnnie Manzari, a designer on Apple's Human Interface Team, says. "So we asked why are they different? And what elements of those styles can we recreate with software?"

Studying is one thing, but there's always the practice of the learned elements that is just as important. Apple went into the lab quite a few times to work out the things they were discovering in their work, trying one thing, then another, before ultimately moving forward with another. That meant trying to understand the contours of the human face, among other things.

"We spent a lot of time shining light on people and moving them around — a lot of time," Manzari says. "We had some engineers trying to understand the contours of a face and how we could apply lighting to them through software, and we had other silicon engineers just working to make the process super-fast. We really did a lot of work."

But just having a great camera in itself was not the only reason Apple wanted such a powerful, capable unit. Augmented Reality and Face ID, Apple's new biometric security measure, also had a role in improving the camera overall.

"There's the Augmented Reality team, saying, 'Hey, we need more from the camera because we want to make AR a better experience and the camera plays a role in that,'" Schiller says. "And the team that's creating Face ID, they need camera technology and hardware, software, sensors, and lenses to support on-device biometric identification. And so there are many roles the camera plays, either as a primary thing — to take a picture — or as a support thing, to help unlock your phone or enable an AR experience. And so there's a great deal of work between all the teams and all of these elements."

The full interview is definitely worth checking out, especially if you're on the fence between the iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus. The camera capabilities in the larger handset might just make it worth it.

[via BuzzFeed News]

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Source: Apple Even Studied Paintings to Improve the Camera in iPhone 8 Plus and iPhone X

Altia Systems PanaCast Vivid Adds HDR to its 180-degree Panoramic-4K Camera System

Altia Systems made a splash in the video collaboration space with its PanaCast 2180-degree panoramic-4K plug-and-play video camera system. With the addition of PanaCast Vivid, which autonomously optimizes lighting to enhance viewing experiences, it's introducing a high dynamic range (HDR) solution for PanaCast2.

In a press release, the video camera makers calls PanaCast Vivid a newly-developed real-time HDR technology being delivered as a fully integrated high performance engine running in the PanaCast Video Processor within the PanaCast 2 camera system, which automatically and continuously improves video quality under varying light conditions to enhance participants' collaboration experience.

More on PanaCast Vivid from the press release:

PanaCast Vivid is built with a patented biomimetic signal processing algorithm which enables the camera system to mimic how the human eye handles the vast changes in luminance in the real world by autonomously optimizing video quality in any lighting condition.

It is particularly useful in environments with a high variation or dynamic range in luminance, as it automatically adjusts it to deliver an optimized video stream for any video conferencing environment.

Vivid autonomously enhances contrast, displays realistic colors, shows details even in dark areas and delivers a video stream that mimics how the eye naturally perceives light.

According to Altia Systems, companies such as Intermedia UK, NEC Networks & System Integration Corporation and The Enright Company have deployed PanaCast Vivid.

"People often experience distractions and distortions during video calls caused by inadequate lighting situations in their huddle rooms," says Yash Gupta, director of engineering for camera systems development, Altia Systems, in the press release.

"This includes light glaring off a whiteboard, making it illegible, or bright sunlight streaming in through a window to create unwanted silhouettes that hide facial expressions, which is all subject to change throughout any given day or across seasons. This detracts from the collaboration experience and degrades the quality of communication. PanaCast Vivid provides instant, autonomous improvements for both the people in the room and remote participants, continuously optimizing video quality in any lighting condition to provide the best video experience possible."

The video enhancements are expected to be well-received by the system design community. "It's great to see Altia Systems add automatic HDR capabilities to their existing PanaCast 2 camera with a simple firmware update," says David Danto, director of emerging technology, IMCCA.

"This update, plus automatic intelligent framing and its advanced features, keep PanaCast 2 amongst the top videoconferencing cameras for huddle rooms and small conference rooms for organizations that have specifically chosen to use software apps instead of hardware codecs in their rooms. Now, distractions such as imperfect lighting and bright windows will no longer get in the way of making useful collaboration footage for its users."

More from Altia Systems's press release:

PanaCast Vivid is now available via www.getpanacast.com for a one-time $149 license per PanCast 2 device. Vivid is compatible with all other industry-first PanaCast Intelligent Vision products, such as Intelligent Zoom, which enables the camera to automatically zoom in and out to include all participants in the room, and Whiteboard, which detects whiteboards of any size and displays their content as a second virtual camera within the video conference.

For more information on PanaCast Vivid, visit www.getpanacast.com/vivid/.

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Source: Altia Systems PanaCast Vivid Adds HDR to its 180-degree Panoramic-4K Camera System

Microsoft Pix camera app uses AI to let you scan documents better

Microsoft has rolled out an update to its Pix camera application for iOS. The new update allows users to take better scanned photos of documents, whiteboards and business cards as well.

From the beginning, 'Pix' app used artificial intelligence (AI) technology to choose and optimise photographs and apply a range of filters.

This time the app would deploy AI technology for documents too.

"We have data that shows people are taking a lot of whiteboard photos at work, they are doing a lot of document scanning," said Josh Weisberg, a principal programme manager in the Computational Photography Group within Microsoft's research organisation in Redmond, Washington.

The updated camera app automatically detects whiteboards, documents and business cards in real time and intelligently adjusts camera settings for these types of photos.

Once the shutter clicks, the app uses AI to improve the image, such as cropping edges, boosting colour and tone, sharpening focus and tweaking the angle to render the image in a straight-on perspective.

Source: Microsoft Pix camera app uses AI to let you scan documents better

JibJab Brings Next-Level Fun to Photos and Videos with New JibJab Camera App

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 17, 2017 : JibJab released a new app today called JibJab Camera (iOS) that helps people make their photos and videos funnier with personalized JibJab stickers. The app is ideal for creating "stories" for Snapchat and Instagram, but can also be used to create photos and videos that can be shared anywhere.

JibJab Camera is free for users and includes over 1,500 stickers that put the creative fire power of JibJab artists directly into the hands of everyday people. Some of the formats available in the app include:•Starring You Stickers. Create classic JibJab style characters featuring the faces of family and friends, and insert those characters into your photos and videos.•Cartoon Avatars. Create a cartoon version of your selfie and use that animated character to add some flair to your photos and videos.•Phrases & More. Find just the right animated phrase, character or prop to help you say whatever it is you want to say and apply them to your photos and videos.

"A new generation is expressing itself in its own unique way in Snapchat, Instagram and on other messaging platforms," said JibJab CEO and co-founder Gregg Spiridellis. "Our mission is to help them be funnier while doing it."

The new JibJab Camera app launches in conjunction with a promotional campaign for NFL Th ursday Night Football and other NFL Network games. Across the NFL Network 18-game schedule (of which games will be featured across NFL Network, CBS, NBC and Amazon Prime Video), fans will be able to create personalized NFL avatars and choose from a library of custom content to express their fandom and cheer on their favorite team. The NFL content kicks off with this week's Thursday Night Football match up of Houston Texans at the Cincinnati Bengals. The content available to fans will change dynamically throughout the season for each match up.

While JibJab has long been known for its political satires and dancing elves, it has more recently established itself as the leading provider of original content and tools for messaging. The company's messaging products have been featured in keynote speeches at F8 (Facebook's Developer Conference) and WWDC (Apple's Developer conference), and its app is consistently rated among the top performing entertainment apps in the App Store.

Source: JibJab Brings Next-Level Fun to Photos and Videos with New JibJab Camera App

Microsoft's Pix camera app is now better equipped to scan documents thanks to AI technology

The Microsoft Pix camera application for iOS devices will now lets users take better scans of documents, whiteboards and business cards

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Tech giant Microsoft has updated its Pix camera app for iOS devices which now lets users take better scans of documents, whiteboards and business cards too. From the beginning, 'Pix' app used artificial intelligence (AI) technology to choose and optimise photographs and apply a range of filters. This time the app would deploy AI technology for documents too. 

"We have data that shows people are taking a lot of whiteboard photos at work, they are doing a lot of document scanning," said Josh Weisberg, a principal programme manager in the Computational Photography Group within Microsoft's research organisation in Redmond, Washington.

The updated camera app automatically detects whiteboards, documents and business cards in real time and intelligently adjusts camera settings for these types of photos. Once the shutter clicks, the app uses AI to improve the image, such as cropping edges, boosting colour and tone, sharpening focus and tweaking the angle to render the image in a straight-on perspective.

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NFL Network links with JibJab Camera app to lure young fans

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• Published Sept. 14, 2017

Brief:

NFL Network is promoting its Thursday Night Football primetime matchup and other games with a campaign featuring JibJab Camera, a new mobile app that helps people make funny photos and videos with personalized stickers, according to a press release by JibJab. JibJab lets fans create personalized National Football League avatars with selfies and a library of custom content to add flair.

The app's NFL content kicks off ahead of Sept. 14's match between the Houston Texans and Cincinnati Bengals. Each week, new content will be promoted and made available on the app 24 hours before kickoff. Fans can share their JibJab creations by directly posting to Snapchat or Instagram.

JibJab, which is mostly known for its satirical videos of politicians and electronic cards that can be personalized with selfies, said its camera app is free and available globally on iOS.

Insight:

In an attempt to deepen engagement with football fans both at games and at home, NFL teams and the organization as a whole are enlisting mobile technology in new ways this season via Snapchat, augmented reality, original programming on social media and real-time in-stadium engagement, among other approaches. 

NFL wants to avoid another season of declining TV ratings following a year filled with Olympics coverage, an embittering presidential election and controversies with players who were outspoken about police brutality. There's a lot at stake because of football's unmatched ability to reach mass audiences, particularly with major annual events like the Super Bowl that reel in millions of viewers.

With JibJab Camera, the NFL can take another step toward making football fun and innovative. JibJab's app is another way to engage fans with their favorite teams and players, and to let them express their support among friends, family and other fans. The camera app can also help appeal to younger viewers who are shunning TV while spending more time with mobile apps and social media.

Snapchat and Instagram users, in particular, are familiar with app features to add filters, masks, text, emojis and stickers to photos and videos they share online. JibJab Camera's features are readily understood by young adults and teens who are immersed in mobile media, a key audience the NFL is trying to attract.

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Source: NFL Network links with JibJab Camera app to lure young fans

Brick high school football game brawl caught on camera

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BRICK - A long-running feud between two Brick high schools erupted into violence Saturday during a football game and the resulting brawl quickly spread from the stands to social media.

Fists flew when a student grabbed a cherished flag from rivals and a tussle broke out during the Brick Memorial versus Brick Township football game.

Brick Memorial senior Tyler Geoff watched the scuffle and said he felt disgusted.

"These kids need to be suspended," Geoff wrote on Twitter when he shared a video originally posted on Snapchat with Mayor John G. Ducey.

The eight-second clip shows students throwing punches at a shirtless teenager in camouflage pants. The video does not make clear what triggered the fight. 

Geoff and Acting Superintendent Dennis Filippone said it was an attempt to snatch the flag that spurred the violence.

Filippone said 10 students from both Brick Memorial and Brick Township high schools were involved in the fight.

"We've had some inappropriate chants (in the past), but we've never had any physical violence at a game prior to this," he said.

All of the students have been identified and disciplined, Filippone said. No one was seriously injured, he said. Police were notified, but no charges were pressed against the students, he added.

"It was inappropriate. We're disappointed and embarrassed by it," the acting superintendent said. "We're going to take steps to make sure this doesn't happen again."

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District administrators are finalizing a formal procedure for security at future sports events, he said. School staff and police will also be more visible to spectators at games, he said. 

On Wednesday, both schools will square off again, but this time in soccer, Filippone said.

Filippone said he hopes to reduce the rivalry between Brick's high schools to a more "healthy" level by focusing on the district's existing character building and leadership programs.

"There were many, many students who stood by and watched what was happening (on Saturday), and put it on social media," he said.

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Filippone said he wants to see a new culture that encourages students to stop incidents like these, by reporting fights immediately to authority figures, instead of acting like spectators.

"Instead of being part of the problem, our kids should be part of the solution," he said. "I really do believe that in the long run, a bad event will end up making us a better and stronger school community, as well as regular community, because of the things we're going to do in the future."

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iOS 11 + iPhone X tidbits: Face ID interface and setup, Camera app adjustments, more

The leaks from the iOS 11 GM continue this weekend. Following information such as a new Portrait Lighting feature and the iPhone X naming scheme, developers have now uncovered additional details on Face ID, the Camera app, and more.

The most interesting tidbit here is a look at the Face ID interface during the setup process. While earlier reports had explained details about how Face ID works, this is the clearest look at the interface. Shared on Twitter by Guilherme Rambo, you can see the square face design outline the face during the authentication process. When the face is recognized, the borders light up and the animation transforms into a smiley face.

The video shared on Twitter isn't accurate in terms of timing, as Rambo notes. This process relates to the initial setup process of Face ID rather than the unlocking process, much like the fingerprint outline that appears during Touch ID setup.

Rambo has also shared a screenshot of the Face ID preferences. Here you can see the option to use Face ID for things such as iPhone unlock, iTunes and App Store purchases, and Safari AutoFill.

Ideally, Face ID will work passively after the initial setup process as this animation is a bit long to have to sit through every time. For more information on Face ID, check out Greg's full breakdown from last night.

Rambo also offers a look at the iPhone X's camera interface. While not a whole lot here is different, you can see the extra black space at the top and bottom to "accommodate the notch and home indicator." Furthermore, he says the camera shutter button "gives a nice haptic feedback" when running on a 2017 iPhone.

There's also a new activity indicator when loading a video. The indicator appears in the status bar along the top, which as we noted earlier, is completely rethought on the iPhone X thanks to the notch.

We'll keep digging through the iOS 11 GM to see what else we can uncover. Read more below.

Source: iOS 11 + iPhone X tidbits: Face ID interface and setup, Camera app adjustments, more

Fujifilm's New App Will Offload RAW Batch Conversion To Your Camera's CPU

© Supplied Canon and Nikon have a tendency to dominate the news with lenses and bodies. Fujifilm wants to capture your attention with something different -- software. And cool software at that. Starting from November this year, select Fujifilm cameras, in combination with a special desktop application, will be able to convert RAW images using the camera's internal hardware.

When you think about it, it makes sense. If your camera has dedicated electronics for converting RAW images to other formats while shooting, why not make use of it at the post-production step too?

Sure, computers are pretty powerful these days, including notebooks, but there are situations where you might want to offload processing to your DSLR, which previously would be sitting idle.

The program will be called "Fujifilm X RAW Studio" and it's designed to work with a range of the company's shooters featuring its "X Processor Pro", including the X100F, X-T2 and GFX 50S. They'll need updated firmware, which will be released incrementally, starting from late November 2017 with the GFX 50S and X-T2.

Mac users will get the app first, again in November, with the Windows version arriving in January next year.

It's hard to say how useful it'll be in the long run, but at the very least it's innovative.

[Fujifilm, via PetaPixel]

Source: Fujifilm's New App Will Offload RAW Batch Conversion To Your Camera's CPU

The LG V30’s wonderful camera app ported to the LG G6, root needed

LG's latest flagship phablet, the LG V30 is more camera-centric than the smaller LG G6. That's not to say that the G6's camera is not competent, it's just that the V30 highlights this feature more. And with the V30's better camera comes a camera app that has more bells and whistles than the one in the LG G6. As per usual, the aftermarket development community comes to the rescue, porting the V30 camera app for LG G6 users.

This port comes to us care of XDA developer "xpirt" – the LG V30 camera app, with a lot of its features are now usable on the LG G6. The port makes sure that all stock G6 camera features are still usable, and adds all V30 camera modes – except Cine Mode, which relies on the V30's particular camera sensor.

If you also like the Graphy features on the V30, those are available with the camera app, in combination with a tweaked app the developer has put up via his official XDA thread (source link below). The big caveat, as always, is that this port needs root access to work. So if you've rooted your LG G6 already, this camera post might be a great addition.

As always, make sure you back up your important data when attempting to gain root access and flashing 3rd party tweaks.

SOURCE: XDA

Source: The LG V30's wonderful camera app ported to the LG G6, root needed

New app uses smartphone camera to provide detailed information about heart health

September 6, 2017

Want to know how healthy your heart is? Now there's an app for that.

In a proof-of-concept clinical trial, engineers at Caltech, Huntington Medical Research Institute, and USC have demonstrated that the camera on your smartphone can noninvasively provide detailed information about your heart's health. What used to require a 45-minute scan from an ultrasound machine can now be accomplished by simply holding your phone up to your neck for a minute or two.

The team developed a technique that can infer the left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) of the heart by measuring the amount that the carotid artery displaces the skin of the neck as blood pumps through it. LVEF represents the amount of blood in the heart that is pumped out with each beat. In a normal heart, this LVEF ranges from 50 to 70 percent. When the heart is weaker, less of the total amount of blood in the heart is pumped out with each beat, and the LVEF value is lower.

LVEF is a key measure of heart health, one upon which physicians base diagnostic and therapeutic decisions.

"In a surprisingly short period of time, we were able to move from invention to the collection of validating clinical data," says Caltech's Mory Gharib (PhD '83), senior author of a paper on the study that was published in the July issue of the Journal of Critical Care Medicine. Gharib is the Hans W. Liepmann Professor of Aeronautics and Bioinspired Engineering.

Three of the co-authors of the study, Derek Rinderknecht (PhD '08), Niema Pahlevan (PhD '13), and Peyman Tavallali (PhD '14), developed this technology as students or research engineers at Caltech. They have since teamed up with former Caltech visitor in medical engineering Marianne Razavi, another author of the study, to found a start-up named Avicena that has licensed this technology and will market the app. Gharib is an unpaid board member of Avicena and Pahlevan is currently an assistant professor at USC.

To test the app, clinical trials were conducted with 72 volunteers between the ages of 20 and 92 at an outpatient magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) facility. MRI is the gold standard in measuring LVEF but is seldom used clinically due to its high cost and limited availability. LVEF is most commonly measured using an ultrasound machine during a procedure known as echocardiography. Echocardiography, however, requires a trained technician, an expensive ultrasound machine, and up to 45 minutes of a patient's time.

To measure LVEF using the technique developed at Caltech, doctors simply held iPhones against the volunteers' necks for one to two minutes. Afterwards, the volunteers immediately received an MRI examination, and data from both tests were compared. The measurements made by smartphone had a margin of error of ± 19.1 percent compared with those done in an MRI. By way of comparison, the margin of error for echocardiography is around ± 20.0 percent. (That means, for example, if the app generated an LVEF reading of 40, it would have a margin of error of 40 x 19 percent, which equals about plus or minus 7.6 points.)

"What is exciting about this study is that it shows our technique is as accurate as echocardiography at estimating LVEF when both are compared to the gold standard of cardiac MRI. This has the potential to revolutionize how doctors and patients can screen for and monitor heart disease both in the U.S. and the developing world," Gharib says.

The app works because the walls of arteries are almost completely elastic--they expand and contract with each beat of the heart. That expanding and contracting can be measured and described as a waveform that encodes information about the heart. For the study, the team used an iPhone 5, but any smartphone with a camera will work.

Gharib and his team are exploring what other information about the heart can be mined from the waveform captured by the app. Soon, he anticipates that the technique could be used to diagnose heart valve diseases, like aortic stenosis, and coronary artery blockages.

Source: New app uses smartphone camera to provide detailed information about heart health

New app replaces ultrasound with smartphone camera to measure heart health

Want to know how healthy your heart is? Now there's an app for that.

In a proof-of-concept clinical trial, engineers at Caltech, Huntington Medical Research Institute, and USC have demonstrated that the camera on your smartphone can noninvasively provide detailed information about your heart's health. What used to require a 45-minute scan from an ultrasound machine can now be accomplished by simply holding your phone up to your neck for a minute or two.

The team developed a technique that can infer the left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) of the heart by measuring the amount that the carotid artery displaces the skin of the neck as blood pumps through it. LVEF represents the amount of blood in the heart that is pumped out with each beat. In a normal heart, this LVEF ranges from 50 to 70 percent. When the heart is weaker, less of the total amount of blood in the heart is pumped out with each beat, and the LVEF value is lower.

LVEF is a key measure of heart health, one upon which physicians base diagnostic and therapeutic decisions.

"In a surprisingly short period of time, we were able to move from invention to the collection of validating clinical data," says Caltech's Mory Gharib (PhD '83), senior author of a paper on the study that was published in the July issue of the Journal of Critical Care Medicine. Gharib is the Hans W. Liepmann Professor of Aeronautics and Bioinspired Engineering.

Three of the co-authors of the study, Derek Rinderknecht (PhD '08), Niema Pahlevan (PhD '13), and Peyman Tavallali (PhD '14), developed this technology as students or research engineers at Caltech. They have since teamed up with former Caltech visitor in medical engineering Marianne Razavi, another author of the study, to found a start-up named Avicena that has licensed this technology and will market the app. Gharib is an unpaid board member of Avicena and Pahlevan is currently an assistant professor at USC.

To test the app, clinical trials were conducted with 72 volunteers between the ages of 20 and 92 at an outpatient magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) facility. MRI is the gold standard in measuring LVEF but is seldom used clinically due to its high cost and limited availability. LVEF is most commonly measured using an ultrasound machine during a procedure known as echocardiography. Echocardiography, however, requires a trained technician, an expensive ultrasound machine, and up to 45 minutes of a patient's time.

To measure LVEF using the technique developed at Caltech, doctors simply held iPhones against the volunteers' necks for one to two minutes. Afterwards, the volunteers immediately received an MRI examination, and data from both tests were compared. The measurements made by smartphone had a margin of error of ± 19.1 percent compared with those done in an MRI. By way of comparison, the margin of error for echocardiography is around ± 20.0 percent. (That means, for example, if the app generated an LVEF reading of 40, it would have a margin of error of 40 x 19 percent, which equals about plus or minus 7.6 points.)

"What is exciting about this study is that it shows our technique is as accurate as echocardiography at estimating LVEF when both are compared to the gold standard of cardiac MRI. This has the potential to revolutionize how doctors and patients can screen for and monitor heart disease both in the U.S. and the developing world," Gharib says.

The app works because the walls of arteries are almost completely elastic--they expand and contract with each beat of the heart. That expanding and contracting can be measured and described as a waveform that encodes information about the heart. For the study, the team used an iPhone 5, but any smartphone with a camera will work.

Gharib and his team are exploring what other information about the heart can be mined from the waveform captured by the app. Soon, he anticipates that the technique could be used to diagnose heart valve diseases, like aortic stenosis, and coronary artery blockages.

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Other co-authors include Marie Csete (MS '98, PhD '00) and Thao Tran of Huntington Medical Research Institutes; and Michael Fong and Robert Kloner of the Keck School of Medicine of USC.

This research was supported by the Rothenberg Innovation Initiative (RI2) program.

Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing institutions or for the use of any information through the EurekAlert system.

Source: New app replaces ultrasound with smartphone camera to measure heart health

Nokia 8's dual-camera is good, but rival phones offer more

So how about 'twin' mode, which combines the input from the two sensors all at once? They're good, but not stellar. Damning with faint praise perhaps, but while some pictures came out wonderfully, I was often disappointed by either the dynamic range (blue skies would wash out anything else in frame), or underperforming focus. Many of the test shots you see here are my "best" ones: 13 megapixels should be more than enough for crisp shots, but the Nokia 8, despite those Zeiss lenses, delivered merely good images — not great. Color accuracy was generally good, but I felt many of my images were a little muted compared to reality, even with HDR mode turned on. A sunny day in Berlin is the chance for a smartphone to shine, but my photos don't seem to show that. This was further compounded when comparing the results against LG's V30 in similar conditions.

Also, after being spoiled with the camera app control options of Nokia's Lumia phones years ago, the lack of true manual controls and tweaks was also disappointing. There are three focus modes: include center-weighted, evaluative -- which generally involves face detection -- and old-fashioned auto, while there's similarly limited options for focal range photography. Macro, infinite distance and auto are your three only options. And that software-driven bokeh mode that we're seeing on most smartphones with two lenses? The Nokia 8's interpretation of it is just not that good. It typically smeared objects outside of the main area of focus, and usually neglected to take into account the details of, say, the stag statue antlers.

That's not to say there's nothing to play with inside the camera app. The simple control UI includes the ability to combine the front facing camera with the rear-facing duo for simultaneous photos and video. This is what a "bothie" is made out of.

The good parts: The cameras on both the front and back use the same resolution, so your images don't look particularly uneven. There were, however, times when the front-facing camera struggled with changes in lighting. The biggest problem was the physical challenge of lining up what you're trying to capture. I took some "bothie" video as we drove around the Berlin Victory Column during the photography testing, and it was hard to balance capturing both the building and myself in the back of the car. You could say that's fine for rough-and-ready live broadcasts, but it's difficult to make anything look particularly good. A wider-angle lens on the front facing camera would have alleviated things.

And about that livecasting: Nokia added the ability to livestream directly from the camera app to YouTube or Facebook -- which is a smart idea. However, when trying it out, I barely seemed to notice that hyped-up Nokia OZO-branded audio recording. Despite promises of 360-degree directional audio, and three microphones embedded inside the phone, the quality was pretty rough. My voice blasted out on Facebook, while video compression wrecked the quality of the video. This isn't completely the fault of the Nokia 8: phone signal quality and Facebook's own compression tricks are all involved. But the point is that I don't want to share something that sounds grating and looks muddy. What's the point in that?

Another issue I had was the delay in switching between the two sensors on the back of the Nokia 8. This was an problem with several of the first wave of dual-lens camera phones last year, but most have figured out how to speed up this transition. We got to test this Nokia 8 ahead of its retail launch in Europe, so there is the chance that the company can tweak some of these issues through software updates. At this point, there's certainly plenty for the engineers to work on.

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Source: Nokia 8's dual-camera is good, but rival phones offer more

Sony’s 3D Creator App Will Be Part of Android Oreo Update for Xperia XZ Premium

Sony unleashed a couple of new smartphones at IFA 2017 this week in the Xperia XZ1 and Xperia XZ1 Compact. These two new smartphones have a rather interesting feature, and one that you won't find on any other device just yet. And that's 3D scanning. However, Sony has confirmed on Twitter that its Xperia XZ Premium will get the feature with the Android 8.0 Oreo update, which will be coming in the near future. Of course, Sony has not set a specific date for the Oreo update – of course it did only become stable late last month – but it is expected to be available fairly soon.

The 3D scanning feature is part of a new 3D Creator app that Sony has developed – it's not actually part of the camera app on its smartphones. It allows users to scan things like a person's head, a plate of food or really anything. It's still in its early stages but Sony believes that there are some real-world use-cases for this feature, and it's working hard to make it available to the masses. Sony is making it available for users to scan themselves and put themselves into video games like Grand Theft Auto V. And in the very near future, users will be able to do it with other games, as Sony is able to strike deals with other gaming companies. It is also working to make these scans printable. So you could 3D scan your head and print it in 3D.

This is an exciting feature, and it's great to see that those with the Xperia XZ Premium will get the chance to use this feature as well. There's currently no word on whether Sony will be bringing it to other smartphones in its lineup that are already on the market. But it is definitely a possibility, seeing as there are other Sony Xperia devices with this Motion Eye camera already available – like the Xperia XZ. Hopefully the Android 8.0 Oreo update will be available in the very near future, especially since it is launching with the Xperia XZ1 and Xperia XZ1 Compact smartphones later this fall.

Source: Sony's 3D Creator App Will Be Part of Android Oreo Update for Xperia XZ Premium

£100 Smarter fridge camera tells you whether you’re running low on food – and suggests recipes using whatever’s left in your chiller

THERE'S nothing worse than coming home to a fridge that you thought was filled to the brim with food but has been demolished by your flatmates or family.

But what if you could return to a chiller that was not only always filled with your favourite foods - it had even been topped up with a pint of milk while you'd been out?

Margi Murphy

What the FridgeCam looks like

Well, with a clever, affordable new gadget, this could be your new reality.

Designed to save time, money, energy and food waste, the £99.99 wireless Smarter FridgeCam lets you peek inside the your fridge from wherever you are through your smartphone.

Plenty of super pricey manufacturers have begun to offer this quirk - but this is a fantastic way to make your "dumb" fridge work for you at a fraction of the cost.

Each time the fridge door is opened the FridgeCam automatically takes a snapshot of what's inside - sending it straight to your smartphone.

It also uses object recognition to keep track of all your food items, by sending an alert when they're about to expire.

Smarter

The camera syncs to a smartphone app that sends you alerts and footage of your fridge

It will let you avoid making trips to the local grocery store and shop with ease by automatically adding your favourite items to an in-app shopping list which will feature major supermarkets including the likes of Asda.

If you've got an odd collection of ingredients left toward the end of the week, the Smarter Chef feature can even make recipe suggestions based on what's in there.

The first time you fill your fridge with the camera inside, you scan the barcodes of each item.

The camera will "learn" what each object looks like and will automatically recognise it in the future.

The inspiration behind the latest innovation in the kitchen was to combat the growing problem of food waste in the home.

In the UK, the average household throws away £700 worth of food annually.

The first time you install the camera, you scan the barcode of each item and it will recognise similar objects in the future

That's 7.3 million tonnes of food in the bin.

The FridgeCam will be coming to the UK next month and was on show at Europe's largest technology conference this week, IFA.

Tech heavyweights including Samsung, Panasonic and Sony all announced new gadgets.

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But noticeably absent was Apple, who never show up at the bash but are reportedly planning to release a new iPhone within two weeks.

The Berlin trade fair is jam packed full of incredible tech, including other ways to snoop on your home while you're not there.

Pawbo revealed a super smart pet treat dispenser that lets you speak to your cats and dogs when they are at home alone - and even lets you play games with them.Even hunting for the remote could become a thing of the past as Toshiba announced it will launch voice-activated tellies.

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Source: £100 Smarter fridge camera tells you whether you're running low on food – and suggests recipes using whatever's left in your chiller