Panoramas on a Camera Phone

The photo software company, Scalado has launched a software package for camera phones which enables them to take wide panorama photos by stitching together several photos in sequence. Scalado's software features a smart stitching technology, which sews numerous images together in order to create a single, specialised photograph in a click of a button on the handset. The result is a perfect panoramic photograph that is produced automatically and within seconds.

"No photo effect is more dramatic than sweeping panoramas, and anyone that can operate the phone's camera can create spectacular images using AutoRama," says Mats Jacobson, CEO, Scalado. "It's made so simple, you don't need to be an expert as you just point and shoot as the phone automatically does the rest for you, vibrating to tell you when to take the next shot to create the perfect high-resolution multi mega pixel panorama."

AutoRama allows you to take 10 high-resolution images in succession and features 8 different stitching modes, to enable the user to create personal photographs for every view and every occasion. The software automatically stitches the high-resolution images together to meet the desired size of photograph.

The secret behind AutoRama is Scalado's patented RAJPEG technology. RAJPEG is a JPEG codec technology that reduces memory requirements, processing JPEG input and output images in the compressed domain, which enable the viewing of any region of a JPEG image without the need to access the previous parts of the image. RAJPEG rapidly reduces the amount of RAM memory required by a factor of 25x while still processing full resolution mega pixel images, and increases performance and the speed for image manipulation by a factor of up to 10x. Another Scalado patent is also pending for the unique method of creating the panorama.