Sensor Recognizes Format Of Digital Image

November 28, 2006 Seimens has developed a tiny new opto-mechanical sensor that recognizes if it is tilted vertically or horizontally. As a result, a digital camera fitted with this sensor could, for example, “know” if a picture is being taken in portrait or landscape format. When equipped with the appropriate software, the camera would immediately store the images with the correct orientation so that the user would not need to tilt his or her camera to view the pictures. In addition, users would no longer have to spend lots of time rotating images on the monitor after the pictures have been transferred to the computer. The new orientation sensor was developed by the Siemens subsidiary Osram Opto Semiconductors, which recently presented it at the Electronica trade fair in Munich. The sensor is especially designed for use in mobile devices such as cell phones, MP3 players and digital cameras. This may not seem like a big deal for everybody, but we only have a certain number of minutes on the planet, and every minute wasted turning a pic around the right way is another experience you miss out on.

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