Product category: Capacitors
News Release from: Cap-XX | Subject: BriteFlash
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 08 March 2006
Supercapacitors put power into
cameraphone flashes
A novel power architecture uses supercapacitors to provide LED flash camera phones with enough light to produce high-resolution images.
Cap-XX has developed its BriteFlash power architecture to provide LED flash camera phones with enough light to produce high-resolution images Some phone manufacturers have experimented with long flash exposure times to compensate for low-light problems, which then results in blurry photographs
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 13 Jun 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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CAP-XX supercapacitors pack the highest energy and power densities into thin, lightweight, prismatic packages that will fit into slim portable devices.
Cap-XX's BriteFlash architecture provides enough flash power to eliminate both dark and blurry photos using high-capacitance (0.4 to 1F), low equivalent series resistance (less than 100mohm), thin (1 to 3mm) prismatic supercapacitors to support a battery and deliver the pulse power to drive an LED to full light intensity.
Cap-XX also developed the power architecture that optimises a supercapacitor to power flash LEDs.
"Greater than 2Mpixel camera phones require a high-intensity flash in medium to low light conditions to ensure good pictures", said Anthony Kongats, CEO of Cap-XX.