"Clear Pixel" Camera

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White Motorola Droid Ultra shown in leaked image. Moto X to sport Clear Pixel camera, pure Android? ? Unwired View

The Moto X will apparently feature a ?Clear Pixel? camera with gesture controls. Without further information on this, the only thing we can do is speculate ? that maybe it will have bigger pixels than normal, akin to what we?ve seen in the HTC One. Or maybe it will come with optical image stabilization, which seems to be all the rage right now among smartphone makers. Or both.

One thing is certain (at least according to the aforementioned source): dark, blurry pictures will be a thing of the past with this camera. That?s been promised by phone makers so many times already that we?re really having trouble believing such a claim right now. But let?s wait and see, maybe Motorola will be able to surprise.

http://www.droid-life.com/2013/07/08/rumor-moto-x-to-feature-clear-pixel-camera/

Since they can?t afford to waste battery life on high-power flashes, camera phones have a tough time handling low light. A new imaging sensor design from Kodak addresses the problem using a different kind of pixel. Today?s cameras detect light with an array of red, green and blue pixels?which each see just one color. That means each pixel is ignoring two-thirds of the incoming light. The new sensor adds a panchromatic or ?clear? pixel that detects all wavelengths of visible light, making it much more sensitive to the overall light level.

By using a mix of clear and color pixels, the new sensor becomes two to four times as sensitive to low-light conditions. The specific pattern of how the four kinds of pixels are distributed can be varied depending on circumstances?a cameraphone, for instance, might use a pixel pattern that doesn?t require much computing power to reconstruct the image from the incoming light data. Another benefit is that greater light sensitivity allows faster shutter speeds, reducing the blur in action shots. The first prototypes are expected early in 2008.