Xiaomi will give flagships special capabilities for capturing stars

The company has prepared its own mode of astrophotography

Smartphone manufacturers are doing everything to sell their devices and sales statistics are steadily going up. One common marketing tactic and ploy is that the camera is everything. They do everything to convey to the potential consumer that mobile photography is important and without a good camera, a smartphone is flawed.

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In this fight for the minds of users, companies are very fond of showing off some camera features that supposedly open up opportunities for creativity. For example, the same Apple offers a variety of photographic modes on its iPhones. The same portrait and cinema effect mode. Google prides itself on astrophotography in Pixel backgrounds, and Vivo has offered Zeiss Style Portraits on its latest flagships to create high-quality portraits.

Xiaomi also does not want to fall behind competitors and seeks to expand the creative potential of its smartphones through software and various algorithms. So, the other day the company received a patent for the software “Night sky, traces of stars.” The patent documentation describes the algorithm underlying the time-lapse photography mode. When you activate Night Sky Star Trails in the camera app, it automatically focuses on the night sky and determines the most appropriate settings such as ISO, white balance, and white balance for the scene.

In this case, the camera must remain in the same position for a certain period of time, allowing you to create photos with a certain interval between frames. The algorithm saves all images for further processing. He selects the best of them or some areas, increases the sharpness, combines the photo into a short video that shows a frame-by-frame journey through the starry sky. Before the user’s gaze opens a clear shining night sky and a detailed landscape. This is a purely software story with photo processing and an analogue of astrophotography from Google.

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It can be assumed that the “Night sky, traces of stars” mode was prepared for some flagship of the company. And here Xiaomi 12 Ultra comes to mind, created with a focus on the camera. It is possible that it is he who will offer such a feature as astrophotography.

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