Yes, that was my first try... You rarely get the description of the
physical sensor size, though. Even for "normal" cameras - you have to
search for it, for instance on dpreview...
Argh.
Martin
Christian Willmes wrote:
Hi,
Oh then I can't help in the moment... because I don't have such fancy
devices myself either. ;-)
But I would try to investigate the technical descriptions of the
devices (which are mostly available online) from the manufacturers
(Apple, HTC, Samsung, Nokia etc.).
Cheers
Christian
Martin Tomko schrieb:
Hi Christian,
unfortunately, I don't have the devices myself, I only have access to
the photos they produce... But I can ask some friends.
What I want is the actual values (that are hardware bound and do not
change) of the sensor size (in mm), and the focal length (again, if
the actual zoom is not optical, this is constant. If the zoom is
optical, it should change - but in the exif metadata that I get from
the Android devices, I cannot find the values for the focal length
used...).
Cheers
Martin
Christian Willmes wrote:
Hi Martin,
Martin Tomko schrieb:
Dear geo... folks,
following the AR discussion recently, I thought this may be the
right forum to ask, as I assume that Android and iphone devices are
widely used by mobile AR developers.
Would you by any chance know where to find the folllowing
information?:
- physical sensor sizes (that is, in mm).
- optical focal length (preferable) or focal length in 35mm equivalent
I did not worked on an implementation yet, but I would assume that
you can read out this parameters from the particular systems OS.
Are you asking for some Android or iPhone API calls, to get this
information or do you mean something else?
Alternatively, do you guys know what angle of view do these devices
have (as far as I know, there is no zoom, so it should be only one
value, right)? For whatever view-based application these parameters
are crucial to compute the visible field of view. And as far as I
can tell, they are not available anywhere...
As far as I know there is zoom. And it should be possible to get the
actual zoom state from the device OS itself.
regards,
Christian
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