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Camera-enable Your Applications with BREW's ICamera APIs
BREW 2.1's ICamera interface allows you to support still and motion image capture from the image sensor found on many of today's mid- and high-end BREW-enabled wireless handsets. Camera-enable your relevant applications by learning how to configure and use this API.
by Ray Rischpater
January 9, 2006
eginning in BREW 2.1, QUALCOMM introduced the ICamera API to support still and motion image capture from the image sensor found on many of today's mid- and high-end BREW-enabled wireless handsets. This interface lets you configure the image sensor, obtain bitmaps suitable for painting on the display to present an image viewfinder, as well as capture and encode still and moving images in formats including JPEG and 3GPP. In this article, you'll learn how to configure and use QUALCOMM's BREW ICamera interface in C.
Getting Started
Before you begin, it's important to look at the business case for your camera-based application. There are many kinds of applications that can be camera-enabled: inventory control, entertainment, and messaging applications, for example, not to mention special applications that require video such as character, bar-code, or facial recognition applications.
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eginning in BREW 2.1, QUALCOMM introduced the ICamera API to support still and motion image capture from the image sensor found on many of today's mid- and high-end BREW-enabled wireless handsets. This interface lets you configure the image sensor, obtain bitmaps suitable for painting on the display to present an image viewfinder, as well as capture and encode still and moving images in formats including JPEG and 3GPP. In this article, you'll learn how to configure and use QUALCOMM's BREW ICamera interface in C.
