Multimedia: Camera
Functional Description

The Camera application allows the user to take photos using an integrated camera device. The Camera application is able to view recent photos, delete photos, adjust camera settings, provide image capture services to applications and use the services of other image based applications in Qt Extended.

Features

• Adjust Camera Settings
• Delete Photo
• Integrated Camera device
• Overlay Support
• Plugin based framework for camera devices.
• Supported Formats
• Take Photo
• VideoForLinux
• View Recent Photos
• Zoom

Adjust Camera Settings

The user is able to adjust the capture settings of photos and to adjust the
resolution, quality and storage location of the capture.

Delete Photo

The user is able to delete photos taken by Camera.

Integrated Camera device

The device must have an integrated image sensor.

Overlay Support

Camera application is able to write image sensor data to an overlay display.

Plugin based framework for camera devices.

Framework enabling the development of Camera device plugins that can be used by applications independent of the platform driver software.

Supported Formats

Camera supports the JPEG image format.

Take Photo

The user is able to take a photo using an integrated camera and preview the
photo using the viewfinder.

VideoForLinux

The device must have Video4Linux version 1 or 2 driver support.

View Recent Photos

The user is able to quickly access and view the five most recent photos.

Zoom

Qt Extended supports optical and digital zoom through a two stage scheme,
1. Use camera driver to manipulate camera device to zoom as much as is supported by hardware, optically or digitally.
2. Crop and scale the image received by the camera for digital zoom.

Stage 2 is implemented in the camera application and available for all devices.