New Photo Enlargement Software Gives Cell Phone Photos Better PrintResults
 

San Diego, CA (PRWEB) April 19, 2005 -- A new technology has just been
released called Imagener that enlarges pictures without loss of image
quality. Cell phone photos often do not have enough resolution to
deliver acceptable printout results. Cell phone cameras tend to make
images at 160 pixels per inch, while the acceptable resolution for
printing is in the 300 dpi range. Kneson Software (kneson.com) has
developed new photo software technology that extends current enlargement
techniques to analyze more of the image and give mobile phone photos new
life.

Limited technology exists to enlarge cell phone photos to print quality.
Most commercial programs use a technique called bicubic interpolation to
figure out how to add pixels that will increase resolution. Bicubic
compares immediately adjacent pixels to the one being enlarged which
starts to show those blocky squares above 200% enlargement. Even the
most expensive commercial programs do not have enlargement capabilities
beyond this bicubic method.

Imagener’s "Progressive++" technology analyzes pixels well removed from
each targeted pixel and then estimates how colors change based on
overall image patterns. This fills in areas with pixel colors based on
much more image information than current enlargement methods, and
enlarges cell phone photos to printable quality.

“Before now there was really no way to get cell phone snapshots into
frames and up on the wall,” said Donald Henderson, president of Kneson
Software. “You can enlarge in small increments in the high priced
commercial photo software packages, but results are often not sufficient
for printing. Another option is to take the digital file to a photo
kiosk for printing, but these also use bicubic enlargement methods.”

Improvements in enlargement methods have lagged behind other digital
image technology developments. Today, the advent of evolved
object-oriented computer programming languages like C++ has allowed the
development of much more sophisticated means of enlarging digital images
like those from cell phones. Products like Imagener extend the
usefulness of cell phone photos closer to images from traditional and
multi-megapixel digital cameras.

About Kneson Software
Kneson Software is a software manufacturing and marketing company with
over 15 years experience in perfectly matching identified customer needs
with world-class software development. Kneson Software develops all of
its products using pure C/C++, programmed by developers that have used
C++ since its earliest days of existence. All products are functionally
and visually fast and highly tested for bulletproof performance. All
Kneson Software products install cleanly, uninstall completely, and
contain no Adware or Spyware.

You can read more about Kneson Software at kneson.com.

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On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 16:27:59 GMT, Donald Henderson
wrote:

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This has to be a scam, take a look at the source image and tell me
that you can see the same detail that suddenly shows up in the
enlargement:

http://www.imagener.com/index4.html

--
Owamanga!
http://www.pbase.com/owamanga

On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 16:27:59 GMT, Donald Henderson
wrote:

advert deleted

This has to be a scam, take a look at the source image and tell me
that you can see the same detail that suddenly shows up in the
enlargement:

http://www.imagener.com/index4.html

--
Owamanga!
http://www.pbase.com/owamanga

Donald Henderson writes:

Limited technology exists to enlarge cell phone photos to print quality.
Most commercial programs use a technique called bicubic interpolation to
figure out how to add pixels that will increase resolution. Bicubic
compares immediately adjacent pixels to the one being enlarged which
starts to show those blocky squares above 200% enlargement. Even the
most expensive commercial programs do not have enlargement capabilities
beyond this bicubic method.

Imagener’s "Progressive++" technology analyzes pixels well removed from
each targeted pixel and then estimates how colors change based on
overall image patterns. This fills in areas with pixel colors based on
much more image information than current enlargement methods, and
enlarges cell phone photos to printable quality.

Hah. Even the free Irfanview provides Lanczos interpolation. Lanczos
is a type of windowed-sinc interpolation that can be scaled to *any*
size of kernel, looking at an arbitrarily large number of input pixels
for each output pixel. (Though Irfanview itself doesn't let you choose
the size, it's got to be larger than the 4x4 input samples used by
bicubic).

But even the best interpolation methods only do a better job of
preserving detail. A 640x480 pixel image doesn't have much detail
period. In the case of my cellphone camera, it also has colour moire
and other artifacts I'd rather *not* preserve faithfully.

I'm sure the paragraphs above were written by a marketing person who
went to the company engineers, said "tell me how our method is better
than what already exists", came away with a very limited knowledge of
interpolation, and then extrapolated from that. Hey - the marketing
copy is *better* than the truth.

About Kneson Software
Kneson Software is a software manufacturing and marketing company with
over 15 years experience in perfectly matching identified customer needs
with world-class software development. Kneson Software develops all of
its products using pure C/C++, programmed by developers that have used
C++ since its earliest days of existence.

This is utterly useless information. An interpolation algorithm is a
mathematical method, and will give the same output (if implemented
carefully) whether you write in assembler, Basic, Fortran, C++, or
anything else. Besides, using C++ for software development is not
exactly notable these days.

You can read more about Kneson Software at kneson.com.

I see no point in doing so.

Dave

Donald Henderson writes:

Limited technology exists to enlarge cell phone photos to print quality.
Most commercial programs use a technique called bicubic interpolation to
figure out how to add pixels that will increase resolution. Bicubic
compares immediately adjacent pixels to the one being enlarged which
starts to show those blocky squares above 200% enlargement. Even the
most expensive commercial programs do not have enlargement capabilities
beyond this bicubic method.

Imagener’s "Progressive++" technology analyzes pixels well removed from
each targeted pixel and then estimates how colors change based on
overall image patterns. This fills in areas with pixel colors based on
much more image information than current enlargement methods, and
enlarges cell phone photos to printable quality.

Hah. Even the free Irfanview provides Lanczos interpolation. Lanczos
is a type of windowed-sinc interpolation that can be scaled to *any*
size of kernel, looking at an arbitrarily large number of input pixels
for each output pixel. (Though Irfanview itself doesn't let you choose
the size, it's got to be larger than the 4x4 input samples used by
bicubic).

But even the best interpolation methods only do a better job of
preserving detail. A 640x480 pixel image doesn't have much detail
period. In the case of my cellphone camera, it also has colour moire
and other artifacts I'd rather *not* preserve faithfully.

I'm sure the paragraphs above were written by a marketing person who
went to the company engineers, said "tell me how our method is better
than what already exists", came away with a very limited knowledge of
interpolation, and then extrapolated from that. Hey - the marketing
copy is *better* than the truth.

About Kneson Software
Kneson Software is a software manufacturing and marketing company with
over 15 years experience in perfectly matching identified customer needs
with world-class software development. Kneson Software develops all of
its products using pure C/C++, programmed by developers that have used
C++ since its earliest days of existence.

This is utterly useless information. An interpolation algorithm is a
mathematical method, and will give the same output (if implemented
carefully) whether you write in assembler, Basic, Fortran, C++, or
anything else. Besides, using C++ for software development is not
exactly notable these days.

You can read more about Kneson Software at kneson.com.

I see no point in doing so.

Dave