Comprehensive and practical guide to designing the camera phones of the future. Camera Phone Design is a practical text that brings together the hardware and software design disciplines needed to develop market-competitive product solutions. The authors analyse how functionality and performance are best achieved in terms of hardware architecture and software (algorithmic) implementation, and how existing software algorithms can be used to manage impairments, inaccuracies and ambiguities introduced by present hardware and processing limitations. The text draws on industrial, scientific and academic research referenced against present device availability and placed in the context of existing processor, power budget, cost and form factor (weight and size) constraints. Particular emphasis is placed on potential algorithmic optimisation opportunities and how these algorithms will influence the future specification of hardware components, hardware architectures and the software/algorithm design and validation process. The text is heavily illustrated with photographs of good practice design in camera phone handsets showing layout and form factor considerations, shielding requirements, EMC compatibility and packaging. * Provides a complete practical reference to camera phone design, bringing together the hardware and software design disciplines necessary to develop future market-competitive products.* Reviews Digital Signal Processing (DSP) fundamentals and performance constraints in image processing applications.* Studies the individual components within the processing chain, including the lens/optical block, sensor array, colour filter array and JPEG/MPEG encoder/decoder.* Studies present (and possible future) DSP, microcontroller and memory architectures and related hardware/software partitioning.* Heavily illustrated with photographs of good practice design in camera phone handsets showing layout and form factor considerations, shielding requirements, EMC compatibility and packaging.* Offers an accompanying website with practical illustration resources (video/audio/voice clips).
