In order to make the photo look natural and as close to a real DSLR photo as possible, Apple's
image processor goes through the layers one by one and blurs them in varying amounts, an effect known as «bokeh.»
Not exact matches
Google has
gone beyond the «works on all phones» capabilities you find in the stock Android camera app, and now makes better use of the powerful ISP (
image signal
processor) in the Snapdragon 821 chip.
The 8 Plus includes a new sensor and
image signal
processor to
go with its new A11 Bionic chip, promising richer colors, better low - light shots and faster autofocus.
And that
goes without mentioning the incredible low - light performance and HDR effects provided by the camera, both of which are made possible by using the Pixel's Visual Core — a custom, purpose - built
image processor that exclusively handles the load of making sure
images are pristine.
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).
Everything we've heard about the Galaxy Note 4 indicates that it's
going to be a monster of a smartphone, with specs that include a 5.7 - inch QHD display with a resolution of 1,440 x 2,560 pixels, a 2.7 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 805
processor, a 16 - megapixel rear - facing camera with optical
image stabilization (OIS), a 4 - megapixel front - facing camera, 3 GB of RAM and 32 GB of storage.