NXP Software recently announced to showcase its state-of-the-art swGPS SnapSpot technology at PMA’07. The groundbreaking technology boasts of allowing a digital camera to capture the geographic coordinates of an outdoor location in the time needed to take a picture.
SnapSpot claims to make available an easy technique for geo-tagging images, providing users with latest and exciting ways to search, share, and view their ever-growing photo collections. Besides, it can be attained with a least integration to the camera’s hardware BoM cost.
SnapSpot, taking a new approach to GPS geo-tagging, boasts of solving the tribulations of conventional GPS approaches, which are mostly obtrusive, sluggish and power-consu-ming. SnapSpot technology prevails over these complexities by unraveling the capture and processing of the GPS signals. The capture process is quick and swallows minimal power, making it perfect for a digital camera.
The captured data can then be transmitted to a computer where the SnapSpot client, working with the SnapSpot server, calculates each outdoor position fix in some seconds. The computed location can then be utilized to tag the linked image, enabling it to be searched and viewed through a myriad of photo applications, digital maps and aerial views.
