[neetdeth]

I don't want to represent myself as one of the inventors! I just saw this on HN, skimmed the technical report, and found a bunch of comments on HN that could be answered with my cursory knowledge thus gained.

What I can offer is that it is now possible to get memory buffers containing "raw" sensor data from mobile phones. I've only done it on iPhone so far, but the "camera2" API on Android looks to support this as well. It only works in single-shot photo mode - I suspect there isn't the bandwidth to do 30 fps streaming, and they rely on the ISP for debayering and color space conversion in video mode.

iPhones seem to have negligible chromatic aberration in their raw output, weirdly, so that isn't a blocker for full sensor resolution grayscale imaging. Someone could exploit this to write the world's greatest mobile phone QR reader app.