Leading the Pack: The Next Leap Forward in Smartphone Zoom Race
Introducing enhanced precision and stability for preview and video capture at extreme zoom levels
Introducing enhanced precision and stability for preview and video capture at extreme zoom levels
The plugin demonstrates Almalence Digital Lens technology (DLVR), a solution enhancing visible image quality in head-mounted displays by computationally compensating optical aberrations. The DLVR plugin shows the image quality improvement with any OpenXR-compatible application. VarjoVR1-10degoff-AsIs.jpg,VarjoVR1-10degoff-DL.jpg The technology requires eye tracking, and the demo plugin supports the following devices: Pico 3 Neo Pro Eye HP Reverb […]
Our team will be participating in Augmented World Expo USA, Display Week, Embedded Vision Summit, and Computex Taipei with the latest demos and presentations. See you there! (Check full post for more details.)
Even for a combination of a low-resolution projector and high-performance optics, the dynamic aberration correction technique can improve visual image quality. On the contrary, sharpening techniques result in artifacts and visually corrupted picture.
Meet us (it’s time to go spatial – so, in person!) at AWE USA on June 1-3, 2022. See our newest demos on some latest and greatest VR devices and hear a speech by Almalence CEO covering the latest advances in computational methods for achieving picture quality beyond the optical design limitations in head-mounted displays. […]
Almalence, a winner of SID Display Week 2021 Innovation Award, comes to Display Week 2022 with its Digital Lens technology demo on HP Reverb G2, and Pico 3 Neo Pro, some latest and greatest, highest-resolution VR displays. Contact us to book a meeting!
Almalence introduces the next generation of its Human Eye Simulator, now making the simulator look exactly like a human eye by completely eliminating the unwanted pupil reflections in the IR specter. A closer look at the evolution of how Almalence Human Eye Simulator looked like to the eye trackers in IR specter: First generation: In […]
Achieving high picture quality, optical fidelity, and natural visual experience is a challenge in near-eye display design. Learn: Why the conventional approaches do not work for near-eye display optical design; What specific methods exist, and why they are still fundamentally limited; How the computational optical correction techniques allow overcoming those limits. Read a comprehensive article […]
“Render it Real. Computational imaging to enable a breakthrough in achieving better visual experience in VR displays”. CEO Almalence is giving a speech at AWE Asia 2021 (Sep 27-28).
The image quality of endoscopy cameras is fundamentally limited by the constrained camera size and the lighting is limited by the heat emission at the distal tip. This leads to the tradeoff between very low resolution with acceptably low noise and higher (but still low) resolution with a stronger noise level. Almalence Super-Resolution is a […]
Almalence is proud to be selected as an honoree at SID Display Week 2021 I-Zone for its Digital Lens technology, enabling high-resolution aberration-free picture, large eye box, and natural visual experience in VR head-mounted displays. Almalence has been selected as an honoree at SID Display Week 2021 I-Zone for its Digital Lens technology, enabling high-resolution aberration-free picture, large eye […]
Almalence SuperResolution Zoom was selected to give the flagship Qualcomm device, the Smartphone for Snapdragon Insiders, the best possible camera image quality under zoom conditions.
The all-new 2021 version of the Almalence Human Eye Simulator. Optically clear. Eye Tracking ready.
With the addition of the APU version, Almalence SR now supports the high-end chipset DSPs of both major chipset makers, Qualcomm and Mediatek.
We were eager to compare Microsoft vs. Almalence Super Resolution Zoom performance, and here it goes…
Joint Solution Combines OmniVision’s Wafer-Level CameraCubeChip™ Technology With Almalence’s Unique SuperResolution Algorithm to Provide Highest Quality Images of Smallest Parts of Anatomy.
The exceptional camera hardware could deliver even better results with Almalence Super-Resolution.
Almalence Super-Resolution improves image data, allowing the recognition algorithms to work robustly and confidently in harsh conditions. Machine vision strongly depends on the quality of input image data. Insufficient resolution due to long distance to the object, or high noise due to dim lighting drastically decrease the robustness of recognition, with the neural networks producing […]
Despite having a telephoto camera module, iPhone 11 Pro zoom is still far behind the top performers that use Super-Resolution Zoom. Zoom has recently become one of the most important features of smartphone cameras with the leading OEMs advertising their devices achieving high picture quality at sometimes crazy zoom levels. Like every high-end smartphone, iPhone […]
The Digital Lens overcomes the limits of optical hardware, making the user indeed see the high resolution projected by the display.
Our first testing of Google’s super-resolution zoom recently announced in Pixel 3 shows that it indeed can restore some image details, but is still behind the best in class solutions. Compared to the “normal” digital zoom, which is basically an upscaling plus edge enhancement, Google’s zoom reveals some details that are indistinguishable in the “normal” image: ex1-digital.png,ex1-google-right.png […]
When it comes to VR/AR HMD objective testing, you need an “eye” which is much more than simply a digital camera. Besides having the entrance pupil, focal length, and aperture similar to those of a human eye to see as a human eye, the imitation must be properly perceived by the eye-tracking modules. Meet the […]
Almalence joins Khronos Group as an Associate member to contribute to the OpenXR standard and enable a seamless and effective architecture for eye-tracking-dependent image processing plugins in mixed reality devices. Almalence aims to make its Digital Lens technology, improving the apparent resolution in VR/AR head-mounted displays, available to the end-users in a form of an […]
First objective quality measurements performed with a demo based on HTC Vive showed up to 2.7 times effective resolution improvement and complete suppression of chromatic aberrations even at the edges of the field of view.
Forbes: This Imaging Software Startup Is Defining The Future Of Digital Cameras
Almalence is taking an innovative approach to actively disrupting the industry, using algorithms to improve photo quality at unprecedented speeds, setting the standard for how digital imagery is imagined for the future.
Here at Almalence, we are passionate about pushing the boundaries of imaging technologies and it is a great honor to be recognized for that work in this recent Forbes article. We are excited about what new boundaries we will push in 2017! Full article: This Imaging Software Startup Is Defining The Future Of Digital Cameras […]
AUSTIN, Texas, Jan. 18, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — Almalence Inc., one of the world’s leaders in computational imaging, announces today that it is working closely with Intel to enable Almalence SuperSensor Technology on the Intel® Atom™ x3 processors. SuperSensor, the latest technology from Almalence is a pure computational software solution that helps improve the image quality […]
Funds will be used to develop next-generation imaging technologies AUSTIN, Texas, Aug. 31, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — Almalence Inc., one of the world’s leaders in computational imaging, announces today that it has received an investment from Intel Capital, Intel’s global investment organization. The funds will be used by Almalence to develop the next generation of mobile […]
Having to achieve high resolution, wide field of view, and large eye-box, the VR/AR head-mounted display makers face the challenges impossible to overcome by hardware design alone. Even the latest and greatest head-mounted displays retain the common flaws spoiling user experience: blur and color fringing outside of the small “sweet spot,” picture quality degradation and […]
Almalence, Inc. today announced it has joined the Embedded Vision Alliance, an industry group that brings together providers of the technology used to create practical applications of computer vision. Almalence is joining the alliance to propose its computational photography technologies aimed at imaging quality improvement beyond the physical limits of optical systems. Whether it is a […]
Image Sensors World: Oppo Smartphone Snaps 50MP Pictures Engadget has had a chance to test Oppo Find 7 smartphone camera – a high end smartphone long rumored to feature 50MP sensor. Although it’s hard to tell for sure, but it looks like Oppo has licensed Almalence Super Zoom technology. There is a comparison of Almalence Superresolution Zoom with Sony Clear […]
As Nokia made RAW format available in Lumia 1520, we took a chance to test Almalence Super Resolution technology with it. As Lumia 1520 always outputs 5 Megapixel image, the comparison has been made between: Standard image at maximal zoom (pixel-to-pixel crop from the sensor with no resampling) bicubically upsized 2x, and 5 Megapixel crop […]
Almalence, the developer of world’s first super resolution technology commercially available on desktop computers, announces that its solution becomes available in the most advanced smartphones in 2013. Super resolution is now used to provide high quality pictures at high zoom levels in Huawei’s flagship models Ascend P2 and Ascend P6, SHARP’s new devices and emerging […]
Back in 2013, at the time when smartphone OEMs just started exploring advanced camera features, Huawei came up with nearly a disruptive innovation – SuperZoom. The feature compensated the lack of optical zoom in smartphones by applying Almalence Super-Resolution. Below are some examples taken at MWC 2013 where Huawei announced the first in the World […]
Imagic AG, an industry leader in digital image management systems for professional environments, has obtained a license to use Almalence HDR solution in its products. HDR functionality is much in demand in professional imaging areas such as microscopy, medicine, science and industry. Being a leading provider of image management systems, Imagic has been looking for […]
Almalence’s technologies enable picture quality beyond the camera and display hardware capabilities, overcoming fundamental physical limits of imaging systems.
Mobile camera zoom quality is one of the most difficult features to achieve due to hardware limitations, such as camera module size and barely possible optical zoom implementation. Almalence has successfully applied its SuperResolution technology to achieve best-in-the-class software enhancement of smartphone zoom quality. Devices powered by Almalence SuperResolution Zoom have been constantly getting the […]
High image resolution and low noise, beyond sensor pixel size and density. Pure software technology captures image details that could have only be caught with a bigger sensor with larger number of pixels and bigger pixel size.
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Global leader in computational imaging technologies
Smartphones, VR displays, medical, machine vision, laptops. Wherever the picture quality is fundamentally limited by imager, optics, or display constraints, Almalence technology achieves the quality beyond the limits, improving existing and enabling new usage scenarios.
Computational solutions to overcome imaging hardware limits. Sensor resolution, noise, optical aberrations – our technology achieves picture clarity beyond the capabilities of the imagers, optics, and displays.