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The best-way to get high-quality pictures from your-smartphone.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (ProShotHDX)
Tue Feb 14 13:57:04 2017
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 12:00:36 -0700
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From: ProShotHDX <ProShotHDX@newphonegadgetspecials.com>
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<td id="Top1">The ProShotHDX - Pro-Quality Pictures<br>
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<td id="Mid1"><p>Hello mit-talk-mtg@charon.mit.edu,</p>
<p>Let's face it, the quality of pictures we get from our standard smartphone-lenses leave something to be-desired. They can be grainy, blurry, and just low-quality in general.</p>
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<p>Just about 40 years ago, a young electrical engineer working at the offices of Eastman Kodak in Rochester, NY, developed a product that would upend the entire world of photography. Since that time, the technology has exploded into consumer markets and has proliferated into our daily lives, from camera components included in smartphones to high-quality megapixel systems which provide professional-grade images. All of this came to be thanks to the development of light-sensitive semiconductor devices capable of storing and transmitting light exposure information to create a digital image.</p>
<p>Here at IPWatchdog, we like to return regularly to our Evolution of Technology series to detail the development of a popular consumer technology across the years. Today, with our recent focus on patents issued to companies developing digital photography products, we wanted to dive in a little more deeply to look at the history of development in this field of technology. The chronology of digital photography development comprises the establishment of the JPEG image standard and the development of liquid crystal display screens. It also closely follows the decline of a major American developer of imaging products and the subsequent shift in the entire photography market.</p>
<p>Early Digital Imaging Technologies </p>
<p>The earliest development which is touted as an early harbinger of digital photography is the invention of the digital image scanner by Russell A. Kirsch, one of the early fathers of computing. In 1957, he created a rotating drum apparatus and image scanning programming for the Standards Eastern Automatic Computer, the world’s first internally programmable computer, which he developed with colleagues while working at the National Bureau of Standards. The first scanned image, a five centimeter by five centimeter image of Kirsch’s son, only measured 176 pixels along any side.</p>
<p>A little more than one decade later, in 1969, the charge-coupled device (CCD) was created at AT&T Bell Labs by joint inventors Willard Boyle and George E. Smith. The semiconductor device was capable of gathering data from photoelectric sensors and then transferring that charge to a second storage capacitor. As the data was transmitted, the analog data from the light-sensitive chip was converted into a digital grid which could render an image from that data. Interestingly, there are some reports that this invention, which laid the groundwork for digital photography, was conceived over the course of one hour; the story goes that Boyle and Smith designed the innovation under pressure of having their departmental funding cut by AT&T Bell Labs.</p>
<p>U.S. Patent No. 3858232, issued in December 1974 to Bell Telephone Laboratories Inc. under the title Information Storage Devices, protected a charge transfer apparatus designed for the storage and serial transfer of charge carriers, which contain pixel information. This patent lists both Boyle and Smith as inventors. Bell Laboratories was the setting for even more development in early digital imaging technologies. In April 1978, the USPTO issued U.S. Patent No. 4085456, entitled Charge Transfer Imaging Devices, to Bell Labs. This patent protected a charge transfer area imaging device designed for solid state imaging technologies which is more cost-effective while preventing against smearing aberrations created by similar image capture devices. Invented by Michael Francis Tompsett, this technology received a patent six years after the application was first filed, a span of time which encompasses a major step toward modern digital photography. Steve Sasson and Kodak’s Digital Photography </p>
<p>In 1973, Steve Sasson was a young engineer hired by Eastman Kodak, one of the few electrical engineers employed by a company that was much more renowned for its mechanical and chemical engineering developments at that time. Early on, Sasson was assigned a project to explore the capabilities of a charge-coupled device created by Fairchild Semiconductor which could store and transmit image information at a size of 100 pixels by 100 pixels.</p>
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