#scalado

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Scalado Remove demoed at the MWC2012 Scalado Remove lets you erase passing-by people from your pictures. Don't hurry to check the Android Market: this application won't be downloadable: it will only be pre-integrated in some cool, new upcoming devices.

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Scalado Rewind demoed at the MWC No more closed eyes in group photos: with Scalado Rewind you can choose between five different expressions for everyone in the picture

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Scalado Multi Angle makes interactive 3D pictures Use Multi Angle to make 3D pictures of object and faces just moving around them while shooting

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Scalado Strobe, all the action in one shot Scalado Strobe demoed at the Mobile World Congress 2012. Shoot a video and get an action picture of up to 30 frames.

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Scalado - Why it matters for Nokia

Nokia has for long made some of the best camera phones in the market. The now obsolete N Series phones had some capable shooters and employed high quality Carl Zeiss optics way before the competition. Nokia N8 that came out in 2010, packed an incredible 1/1.83 inch image sensor, the largest on any mobile phone for more than an year and a half. But, the folks at Nokia were not satisfied with that. So, earlier this year, they launched 808 PureView, a beast of a device which is more a camera than phone - a 41 megapixel with a 1/1.2 inch sensor and Zeiss optics that downsampled pixels to create what we call the best images to have ever come from a smartphone.

Unfortunately, Nokia couldn't incorporate PureView tech in its flagship phone of the year for the US, Lumia 900, as the sensor and circuitry involved was deemed too thick for a phone like the 900. However, as per Nokia's VP Developer Relations, Richard Kerris, this is soon to change.

But, if you look at it, a technology like PureView is going to take a considerable amount of time to get into ordinary smart phones, a valid attribute being the cost of high quality hardware involved. So, Nokia needs something that can be incorporated easily into its smartphones - other words, a software solution, and this is where the Scalado acquisition comes into play.

Scalado is an imaging software company headquartered at Lund, Sweden. Though, its not a popular name, Scalado's imaging technology was embedded in 930 million mobile devices worldwide back in 2010. The company also has some cool technologies like the Scalado Remove which lets the camera take multiple shots, identify moving parts in the composition, and replace them with static parts from other shots. Do, check the video from The Verge below to get a glimpse on Remove.

 If you thought that was cool, read on, because, the best is yet to come. A couple of months ago, RIM previewed its BB10 camera app that was lauded for its timeline lens feature. Timeline lens captures photographs of faces in the photo not just when clicked, but also before and after it. The user can manually choose the best of each faces using a circular time line dial. Put simple, it can capture moments that never happened. When enthusiasts dug deep, they identified that it's similar to Scalado's Rewind, which you can see below. Later, RIM's Senior Manager of Public Relations Patti McKague confirmed that RIM infact licensed the tech from Scalado.

 An acquisition like Scalado makes thorough sense for a company like Nokia which is currently heavily focused on pushing its Windows phones into markets worldwide. Every company has a core competency - Apple makes well designed high quality hardware, Samsung makes brilliant displays, HTC incorporates high quality Beats audio, and with no doubt, Imaging is Nokia's sweet spot. The Scalado acquisition renforces the Finnish company's commitment to improve on what it can do best.

As Engadget reports, the Scalado acquisition was complete by yesterday and the company's imaging specialists have already joined the mobile imaging department at Espoo. 

Here is a bonus video for those souls with patience, who reached this far.

  Image courtesy: TheDroidGuy

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Τρέξτε για να τη φτάσετε… Άλλη μία «κίνηση ματ» της Nokia στον τομέα των camera phones

H Scalado μάς έχει απασχολήσει ξανά τους τελευταίους μήνες με τις φωτογραφικές της «καινοτομίες». Κέρδισε το ενδιαφέρον μας με εκπληκτικές ιδέες, όπως η εφαρμογή Remove που μπορεί να διαγράφει ανθρώπους και αντικείμενα από το φόντο μίας φωτογραφίας, αλλά και η Rewind, μία ιδανική λύση για ομαδικές φωτογραφίες που τραβάει αρκετές συνεχόμενες λήψεις ώστε να διαλέξετε [...] ...Διαβάστε περισσότερα → http://dlvr.it/1kDwf8

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Confirmed: Scalado’s Camera Tech Is Inside BB10

At RIM's keynote earlier this week, CEO Thorsten Heins unveiled a brand new camera app that will ship along with BlackBerry 10. It was quite impressive. It basically lets you snap a pic, select a subject's face, and sift through frames captured before the moment you pressed the shutter button to make sure everyone looks their best. Perhaps the person on the left had a huge, wonderful smile while the person on the right was blinking. With the BB10 camera app, you will be able to fix that. But the tech seemed awfully familiar. So familiar, in fact, that we had to do a little digging to satisfy our curiosity. Come to find that a company called Scalado, known for their super badass imaging tech like Remove and Rewind, actually invented this tech a while back. At the time we were unsure what the relationship between RIM and Scalado was, but RIM has since responded and clarified that this is, in fact, a licensing deal. http://dlvr.it/1WQ9dZ

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Apps - Remove by Scalado

Remove does just what it says, removing things selectively from your photo's. You point your phone at your subject and hold it there for a few seconds before snapping your photo. Thus, the app now has a still image, plus many extra frames which — when combined — contain all of the background data. 

The app is being billed as the world’s first object removal software for mobile devices, unfortunately though at this time, the app is for android phone's only with no real news on when or whether at all it will come to iPhone... dicks!