Smartphone Camera Technology

The camera is a vital component of the smartphone and its utility is indispensable. The design of the smartphone camera system determines the quality of the captured photos and videos. This course covers the key topics related to smartphone camera technology, including advanced features in image and video processing. It also covers the foundational principles of color science and the human visual system. The course comprises over 100 informative slides that are meticulously crafted to maximize clarity and accelerate learning. It also contains a short quiz.

Course Highlights

• Study smartphone camera system components

• Learn light, color, and spectral distribution

• Study the difference between radiometry and photometry, and their measured quantities

• Discuss the photoreceptors and sensitivity of human visual system

• Study the structure of RGB color space

• Study the color imaging system components and imaging quantities

• Identify the purpose of display rendering transform

• Understand the color filter array

• Review image signal processor architecture and optical system concepts

• Understand key camera parameters

• Study sensor size, pixel pitch, Airy disk, Nyquist frequency, and modulation transfer function

• Review various types of color filter arrays

• Identify CMOS and CCD image sensors

• Understand various camera and image noise sources

• Learn image correction and enhancement techniques

• Review camera lens structure and material

• Learn techniques to overcome optical distortions

• Discuss advanced smartphone camera features

About the Instructor

The instructor has developed 6 U.S. video patents that were licensed to industry and received the National Association of Broadcasters Technology Innovation Award for demonstrations of advanced media technologies. He has conducted many custom video courses for Comcast/NBC, Qualcomm, Motorola, universities, and the IEEE, and has served as an expert witness on cable TV and video streaming. More recently, two of his video books were adopted by the AI company Anthropic as training material.