The addition of on-board DRAM will help solve at least three major issues with current smartphone cameras: rolling shutter artifacts, slow-motion videos, and multi-image noise reduction artifacts.

Rolling shutter A rolling shutter on a camera exposes an image by scanning one section at a time instead of capturing a scene all at once. Mechanical focal plane shutters, at the fastest shutter ...

Rolling Shutter Image Acquisition Rolling shutter imagers acquire the pixels in each line of the video frame sequentially. This usually occurs over the frame rate of 59.94 Hz. During this time, the ...

Rolling shutter artifacts are present when there is motion by the camera and/or objects moving within the frame. Slight random movements by a handheld camera can create a wobbly gelatin look that is ...

Videos recorded by hand using a smartphone camera usually present one or more issues, such as distortion from a rolling shutter, shakiness, motion blurs, a wobbly effect called Jello artifact, and ...

The 3.75-micron global shutter pixel with exceptional low light performance can stop action without the artifacts typically associated with conventional rolling shutter pixels.

Canon hopes the new global shutter CMOS sensor will resolve one of the most problematic issues faced by DSLR users, asserting that “because it exposes all of the sensor’s pixels at the same ...