Microsoft Pix is a camera phone application developed by Microsoft Research for iOS.
Microsoft Research announced Pix in July, 2016, calling it an "intelligent camera app". It is built in part on technology originally developed for Photosynth.
Its features include:
- Adjusting settings automatically for faces.
- Combining photos from before and after the shutter button is pressed. Normally it captures ten frames, selects the three best, and combines those to reduce noise.
- Creation of comix.
- Document capture, including business cards.
- Focusing on objects of interest.
- Short, looping videos.
- Stylizing.
- Video stabilization and time-lapse.
Notes
References
Killian Bell, "Microsoft says its new camera app is even better than Apple’s", Cult of Mac, July 27, 2016 /wiki/Cult_of_Mac ↩
"Microsoft Research Blog" [1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/platform/microsoft-windows/page/5/?lang=fr_ca ↩
"New Microsoft Pix features let you take bigger, wider pictures and turns your videos into comics - Microsoft Research". Microsoft Research. 2017-12-20. Retrieved 2018-03-30. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/new-microsoft-pix-features-let-take-bigger-wider-pictures-turns-videos-comics/ ↩
"Microsoft Pix Camera" [2] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftpix?rtc=1 ↩
Killian Bell, "Microsoft says its new camera app is even better than Apple’s", Cult of Mac, July 27, 2016 /wiki/Cult_of_Mac ↩
Mallory Locklear, "Microsoft Pix can add business card info to your contacts", Engadget March 9, 2018 /wiki/Engadget ↩