On Thu, 16 Apr 2009, Dongsoo Kim wrote: > > > And about camera client with several inputs question, I will say that > > > almost every 3G UMTS phone has dual camera on it. And we can consider > > > every 3G UMTS smart phones have dual camera on it with soc camera > > > solution. > > > > No, sorry, this wasn't my question. By "client" I meant one camera or > > decoder or whatever chip connects to a camera host. I.e., if we have a > > single chip with several inputs, that should logically be handled with > > S_INPUT ioctl, this would further add to the confusion of using different > > inputs on one video device to switch between chips or inputs / functions > > on one chip. > > Yes exactly. It was "single chip with several inputs." that I intended to > tell. but still don't get what the confusion you mean. Sorry ;-() > Cheers, Wow, so, on those phone a "dual camera" is a single (CMOS) controller with two sensors / lenses / filters?... Cool, do you have an example of such a camera to look for on the net? Preferably with a datasheet available. "Confusion" I meant that in this case switching between inputs sometimes switches you to another controller and sometimes to another function within the same controller... Thanks Guennadi --- Guennadi Liakhovetski, Ph.D. Freelance Open-Source Software Developer -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
