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Nokia already sets the standard when it comes to photography on camera phones, and some of that is thanks to NGP (Nokia Growth Partners). NGP has worked hard to bring in external innovation and ecosystem partners through venture investments.

NGP has invested in a number of different companies since 2006, helping to drive and support businesses that are changing the face of technology and communications. The mobile imaging space is one that NGP has embraced more than most, and there are some impressive advances in camera phone technology on the way as a result.

Pelican Imaging is the latest company to receive an investment from NGP. Compared to Carl Zeiss, Pelican may be a relative newcomer to the photography market, but the Californian company has already developed its own clever image processing technology.

The Pelican technology, based on combining signals from arrays of sensors, enables very slim camera modules with the ability to capture depth and stereo information. The user will effectively be able to change focus of individual objects after taking a photograph. Thanks to intelligent software they can even remove unwanted objects.

The technology can also combine regular image sensing with infrared, meaning images can be shot literally in the dark without the need for a flash. Check out the technology in action.

InVisage is another exciting imaging company already in NGP’s investment portfolio. It’s developing new image sensing technology that has the potential to deliver smartphone image sensors that boast a resolution of hundreds of millions of pixels – better than the human eye. It means that photographs could be sharper, clearer and better than ever before.

The technology doesn’t end there either. Thanks to an investment in a company called Luminate, images are being made a lot smarter. With 3D information, geolocation, time of day, weather, tags for the people in the photographs – future photographs will be a lot more intelligent. Luminate can help to categorise and catalogue all that information, and we will see common image formats being replaced by new standards and file formats capable of handling it all.

It’s clear that NGP has its finger on the pulse when it comes to the latest imaging technologies then, and it’s exciting to see the trends that are developing in the smartphone camera world thanks to NGP’s investments. We can’t wait to see what’s next.

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There’s no doubt that we all take our mobile phones for granted. We expect them to work at a moment’s notice, and why not? That’s what they’re there for. But in times of disaster, natural or man-made, one of the first services to go down is the public communication network, namely the mobile phone networks. This means that many people are left stranded, unable to call for help or communicate with their loved ones when they need it most.

In a recent article on BBC Future, Jonathan Zittrain, Professor of Internet Law at Harvard University, promotes the need for a network that works independently of the ones owned and controlled by the network operators and only in an emergency – something called a mesh network.

This idea comes in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombings where people who were urgently wanting to contact friends or family during that time were left unable to do so because of network failures.

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However, a mesh network isn’t new; it’s existed for several years with computer networks, but never for mobile phones.

A mesh network could use all the phones currently on the scene to pass along phone calls to outside the crisis zone. For example, the first phone would make a call but find there’s no coverage. Instead, another phone across the street would receive a packet request and pass that on to another phone further down the street, and so on, until eventually the first phone is connected by the entire network of phones.

In the BBC article, Jonathan explains that in times of crisis, people band together to do what they can in order to help people and help fellow citizens. At the most basic level, our instincts tell us to help, but often we can’t:

“There is a strong civic instinct in people, especially in times of crisis where they are eager and anxious to help. And that is an untapped resource that really could through our modern networking be put to work in a way that makes the helper feel better, and be and feel useful, that makes the person helped get help sooner and allows the crisis to scale in its response to meet the requirements of that requirement.”

We figured this would make an interesting topic for discussion here on Conversations.

Is there a need for a mobile mesh network? Is now the right time? What advantages/disadvantages would this have for society? What would be needed to make this happen?

Let’s discuss, below.

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