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Microsoft Pix
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".Killian Bell, "Microsoft says its new camera app is even better than Apple’s", ''Cult of Mac''July 27, 2016/ref> 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.Mallory Locklear, "Microsoft Pix can add business card info to your contacts", ''Engadget'March 9, 2018/ref> * Focusing on objects of interest. * Short, looping videos. * Stylizing. * Video stabilization and time-lapse. Notes [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DirectX
Microsoft DirectX is a collection of application programming interfaces (APIs) for handling tasks related to multimedia, especially game programming and video, on Microsoft platforms. Originally, the names of these APIs all began with "Direct", such as Direct3D, DirectDraw, DirectMusic, DirectPlay, DirectSound, and so forth. The name ''DirectX'' was coined as a shorthand term for all of these APIs (the ''X'' standing in for the particular API names) and soon became the name of the collection. When Microsoft later set out to develop a gaming console, the ''X'' was used as the basis of the name Xbox to indicate that the console was based on DirectX technology. The ''X'' initial has been carried forward in the naming of APIs designed for the Xbox such as XInput and the Cross-platform Audio Creation Tool (XACT), while the DirectX pattern has been continued for Windows APIs such as Direct2D and DirectWrite. Direct3D (the 3D graphics API within DirectX) is widely used in the develop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
