Mobile camera telephone

Abstract

A mobile camera telephone including a camera module for capturing an image and providing digital data in an RGB format; and an application processor including a CPU for controlling the operation of the telephone and hardware arranged to perform camera image processing on the digital data in RGB format received from the camera module. A method of recording an image using a mobile camera telephone comprising the steps of capturing an image in a first camera component of the mobile camera telephone sending digital data in an RGB format from the first component to a second application processing component of the mobile camera telephone; and, in the application processing component, both image processing the digital data in RGB format to produce an image for viewing and controlling the storage of that image in the telephone.

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