Sentences with phrase «visual core»

So we don't take advantage of the Pixel Visual Core, we don't need to take advantage of it.

Aside from delivering speed to the Pixel 2's built - in camera app, the activation of the Pixel Visual Core also means that third - party camera apps will be able to take advantage of its added processing power.

While the IPU could be the start of Google eventually creating its own processors and other smartphone components — which would be a big step for the Pixel line and Android devices in general — as it stands right now, it looks like the Visual Core doesn't really do much, at least not when it comes to Google's own camera app.

Google hasn't helped matters in its communications, and until recently it seemed like the Visual Core would aid the main camera app — by making the company's signature HDR + image processing faster and more efficient — as well as third - party apps like Instagram and Snapchat.

Google activated the Visual Core this week, stating that, as of right now, the proprietary chip would only be used for creating HDR + photos in third - party apps like Instagram and Snapchat.

The enhanced HDR + on the Pixel 2 is made possible by Pixel Visual Core, a new System on Chip (SoC) circuit.

Google plans to ultimately enable the Pixel Visual Core for third - party apps too, meaning you'll be able to take advantage of it even if you don't use Google's camera app.

Well, Google's secret weapon here could be the Pixel Visual Core.

And Intel, it turns out, worked with Google to make the Pixel Visual Core, says CNBC.

Instagram, Snapchat and WhatsApp are just some of the apps that will be able to take on the computational photographic power of the Pixel Visual Core in the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL.

You likely won't see the same kind of improvement compared to the existing stock camera app, but the Visual Core figures to be a step forward no matter how you use your Pixel 2's camera.

Images on the left don't use the Pixel Visual Core, while images on the right do.

Third - party developers can learn more about taking advantage of the Visual Core in their apps here.

Later on, the Visual Core will be available to all third - party apps using the Android Camera API — meaning even if you're using Instagram or Snapchat, your photos will look just as sharp.

Credit: Tom's GuideIn a blog post yesterday (Oct. 17), Google detailed plans to use the Pixel Visual Core, one of the Pixel 2's new co-processors specifically designed for image processing, to produce better HDR photos.

Like the main Pixel camera, Pixel Visual Core also runs RAISR, which means zoomed - in shots look sharper and more detailed than ever before.

(Credit: Google) So what exactly can the Visual Core do?

And, like all of Google's work these days, the Visual Core operates on the basis of machine learning, so you can expect it to keep improving over time.

It'll be interesting to see how results get tuned over time as the Pixel Visual Core also uses Google's TensorFlow language for machine learning.

Google revealed the Pixel 2's and Pixel 2 XL's HDR + and machine learning capabilities for computational photo processing will be the result of work by the Pixel Visual Core, the company's first - ever own - design co-processor.

The Pixel Visual Core already exists inside every Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL, but it wasn't switched on at launch.

Other improvements listed in the Pixel / Nexus Security Bulletin — besides the Visual Core activation which is not listed in it — include improved overall camera performance, better battery life on the Pixel 2 XL and better quality connections to Telus.

The Pixel Visual Core in the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL already handles the devices» camera app image processing for what Google likes to call «HDR +» or computational high dynamic range post-processing.

DP2 specifically activates the Pixel Visual Core which was absent for last month's preview.

More than just being a dedicated image processing chip, the Pixel Visual Core is special for being Google's first ever, custom - designed SoC or system - on - chip.

The update also activates the Pixel Visual Core system - on - a-chip (SoC), which is the image processor built into the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL specifically for processing photos.

The Pixel Visual Core chips tucked away inside Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL devices are lighting up.

As a final note, Google's announcement today says that HDR + is only the first application to run on the programmable Pixel Visual Core, and with time we should expect to see more imaging and machine learning enhancements being added to the Pixel 2.

One thing that Google left unannounced during its Pixel 2 launch event on October 4th is being revealed today: it's called the Pixel Visual Core, and it is Google's first custom system - on - a-chip (SOC) for consumer products.

Google and Intel have teamed up for the Pixel Visual Core that will allow the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL to take HDR + pictures up to 5x faster.

The coolest aspects of the Pixel Visual Core might be that it's already in Google's devices.

Inside the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL sits the Pixel Visual Core, a chip that is designed to compile HDR + pictures up to 5x faster and consume 1 / 10th the power.

That is why Google made its own Pixel Visual Core system - on - chip specifically and only for image processing and machine learning related to that.

Android 8.1 Oreo comes with a long series of improvements, but the most exciting improvement for owners of the second - generation Pixel is certainly the unlocking of the Visual Core image processing chip that substantially improves camera quality.

Google plans to use the Pixel Visual Core to make image processing on its smartphones much smoother and faster, but not only that, the Mountain View also plans to use it to open up HDR + to third - party camera apps.

The Pixel 2 devices are already much faster at processing HDR shots than the original Pixel, and when the Pixel Visual Core is live, they'll be faster and more efficient.

In contrast, the Pixel Visual Core is dedicated to, and therefore optimized, for one task and one task alone: image processing, specifically HDR + processing.

Google cites performance of the Pixel Visual Core at around 3 trillion operations a second, and says that the famous HDR + functionality of Google Camera on supported devices (specifically the Pixel 2) will process photos 5 times faster than previous generations, all while using one tenth of the power that it would take to run the same computations on the main Snapdragon 835.

While the Pixel 2 family still features the Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 SoC at its core, Google's new Pixel Visual Core makes up the bulk of the processing on the camera side of things; something that surely plays into the amazing camera performance found on both Pixel 2 phones.

You can read more about what exactly the Pixel Visual Core is and how it functions in our breakdown of the chip.

The Android 8.1 Oreo update will add a new Developer Option to every Pixel 2 out there to enable the Pixel Visual Core, and later updates will bring this functionality to third - party apps through the official Android Camera API.

Likely just the start of what we're going to see from Google, Pixel Visual Core is an 8 - core Image Processing Unit (IPU); a fully programmable processor, each IPU featuring 512 arithmetic logic units (ALUs).

It's highly likely that Google didn't have time to finish optimizing the implementation of its brand - new hardware, so instead of yanking it out of the new Pixels, it decided to ship the phones as they are and then flip the Visual Core activation switch when the software becomes ready.

The Pixel Visual Core that was just announced this week is another major feather in the new phone's hat.

Pixel Visual Core will be enabled in the coming months via software update in the developer preview of Android Oreo 8.1.

But with OIS on board, all of Google's camera algorithm improvements, and the upcoming Pixel Visual Core upgrades, I think this camera is definitely one worthy of being called a generational upgrade.

So if you thought Android 8.1 was all about cheeseburger emoji and switching on the Pixel 2's Visual Core chip, it turns out there's still more neat stuff in there to discover.

The Pixel Visual Core, as Google Senior Staff Engineer Ofer Shacham highlights, is a custom - designed co-processor that'll come built into every Pixel 2.

According to Shachman, HDR + can run 5x faster and at less than one - tenth the energy on Pixel Visual Core compared to when running on the application processor.

Aside from emergency emoji fixes, 8.1 enables support for the Visual Core image processing chip found in the new Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL, letting third - party developers access the camera's impressive HDR + feature.