Sunday, August 1, 2010

Microsoft Researchers Combat Camera Blur with Sensor Package

Microsoft researchers presented a novel new anti-blurring technology at the recent SIGGRAPH 2010 conference in Los Angeles. The solution is fundamentally simple—using a hardware attachment on a camera to measure the movement produced by an errant hand shake or other disruption.

This movement data, combined with an in-camera analysis of the picture itself, allows a device to come up with a stronger approximation of the corrections needed to "sharpen," or deblur, a picture back to its intended look.