Qualcomm partnered with Google, Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 supports Android 14 new Ultra HDR format photo shooting

Thank you, Mr. Air, a netizen of CTOnews.com, for your clue delivery! CTOnews.com, May 15, according to Google's 2023 I / O development conference, Android has introduced a new image format, Ultra HDR, for photo shooting, which will be supported by Android 14, which is backward compatible with JPEG format and provides a dynamic range beyond 8-bit.

Qualcomm's imaging ISP team worked with the Android team to use Snapdragon 8 Gen 2's 18-bit ISP to support Ultra HDR format, making Snapdragon one of the first platforms in the world to support Ultra HDR photo shooting.

CTOnews.com officially obtained that the Ultra HDR file contains a standard 8-bit (Standard dynamic range, SDR) JPEG compressed base image, another smaller resolution JPEG image with gain mapping joined by the base image, and metadata for HDR reconstruction. Ultra HDR images can be decoded by a range of different rendering formats from full SDR to full HDR.