Everything I could dig up about RED’s Holographic Hydrogen Phone
RED just announced a Hydrogen Holographic Phone/Camera device.
If you know me, you know I like to read patents. It’s a fun way of peaking behind a company’s PR curtains to see what they’re actually working on. Although the patent doesn’t talk much about the whole Holographic display (probably coming in another patent filing), here’s what I could dig up:
RED HYDROGEN PHONE: Summary
A truly modular Phone / Camera system. Modules may include:
- A phone module, camera module (w/ integrated lens module), Projector module, speaker module, flash module, battery module, etc
- Using magnetic coupling of modules, with retractable pins
- Capturing at insane resolution / frame rate options such as: 100 fps in “5 k” or 250 fps in “2k” mode.
Some details on the modules
Phone Module:
- can include a first camera comprising a first image sensor, and one or more memory devices configured to store digital image data
- An electrical interface … on the first side of the phone module housing, and a touch screen display on the second side of the phone module housing.
- The phone module can be configured to operate in an independent mode and a modular mode
Camera Module
- The first side of the camera module housing can have an aperture through which light enters the camera module housing.
- A second camera module, which can include a lens connected to the first side of the camera module housing over the aperture, and a second image sensor configured to digitize light incident on the second image sensor after the light passes through the lens and the aperture. The lens of the second camera can be a zoom lens.
- The overall focal length of the system may be any of a variety of lengths, including 17 mm, 35 mm, 46 mm, 48 mm, 52 mm, or other focal length. In one implementation of the disclosure, the back focal length is no more than about 16 mm.
- Output video Resolution:
- “2 k” (e.g., 16:9 (2048.times.1152 pixels), 2:1 (2048.times.1024 pixels), etc.),
- “3 k” (e.g., 16:9 (3072.times.1728 pixels), 2:1 (3072.times.1536 pixels), etc.),
- “4 k” (e.g., 4,096.times.2,540 pixels, 16:9 (4096.times.2304 pixels), 2:1 (4096.times.2048), etc.),
- “4.5 k” horizontal resolution, Quad HD (e.g., 3840.times.2160 pixels),
- “5 k” (e.g., 5120.times.2700) horizontal resolution,
- “6 k” (e.g., 6144.times.3160),
- “8 k” (e.g., 7680.times.4320), or greater resolutions.
- FPS: 1 fps to about 250 fps or more can be achieved. For example, the frame rate may depend on the resolution setting. In some embodiments, the camera module 1310 is configured for frame rates of from between about
- 1 fps and about 100 fps in a “5 k” resolution mode, from about
- 1 and about 125 fps in a “4 k” resolution mode, from about
- 1 and about 125 fps in a quad HD mode, from about
- 1 and about 160 fps in a “3 k” resolution mode, and from about
- 1 and about 250 fps in a “2 k” resolution mode.
Power Module
- Can stack 2 modules for extra power
Read the patent for yourself: http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=/netahtml/PTO/srchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=20170171371.PGNR
A good wrap-up of announced hardware specs:
Az Balabanian is an aerial cinematographer, cognitive scientist and designer specializing in HCI and VR Research. You can follow him on Twitter. If you are interested in publishing your article on Haptical, here is how you can do it.
