A camera upside-down problem occurred with the Nexus 5X camera and Google engineers reveal the cause

Google's latest smartphone "Nexus 5X" which was launched in October 2015 had a phenomenon that images were turned upside down when shooting with a third party camera application. Our engineer explained the details about the problem that the image is turned upside down, and it turned out that the cause was in the image sensor.

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Reddit pointed out that Nexus 5X is not a preinstalled Google camera application, but images taken with a third party camera application will be taken upside down when released. The developer LG also grasps the problem of upside-down phenomenon, and "QR & Barcode Scanner"The developer of the application reveals that the sample code for repairing the problem from LG has been sent by e-mail.


Meanwhile, he is an Android camera framework engineerEino-Ville TalvalaMr. appeared in Reddit and I revealed the details as to why images are taken upside down. According to Mr. Talvala, the Nexus 5X is fitting the image sensor in the opposite direction to other smartphones in order to fit the wire extending from the image sensor to the body, if the image is taken upside down and shot Thing. For the camera application preinstalled in Nexus 5X, the latest API that handles inversion automaticallyCamera 2 APIThere is no problem that the image is flipped upside down because it is being used, but there is a problem with a third party camera application that uses the old API without implementing the Camera 2 API .

Even with the front camera of "Nexus 6" released in 2014, there was a phenomenon that was taken upside down in the same cause as this time, but because there were not so many applications using the front camera, it was a big problem It seems that it did not become. Mr. Talvala said that while Google and LG were all tackling the issue, he said, "If you are using a third party camera application and the upside-down phenomenon occurs, please contact the app developer." I will.

In addition, the editorial department also made third party "[High image quality] Good silence camera"When installing the camera application called Nexus 5X and shooting it, I have confirmed the phenomenon that the image is displayed inverted upside down, left and right.