Google released its major Android 14 OS update, for which Android enthusiasts waited for so long. Well, it’s pretty obvious since this is a major OS update, so it brings lots of new features, improvements, and changes to enhance the user’s experience. In the bunch of innovations, plenty of premium tools the update has brought, one of which is “HDR image support.”
How sad it feels when you love getting your pictures and videos from events, but in some scenarios, the quality of pictures is pretty down and ugly. To resolve this issue, there has been a shutout in the tech industry for features that provide perfectly processed images. Fortunately, it seems like Google has won the race by jumping into the pond and kicking out Android 14 along with multiple premium tools, which include HDR image support.
The HDR support image works on the mechanism of backward-compatible format to view pictures in Ultra-HDR for crisp and clear shadows and stunning bright content. The term Ultra-HDR refers to a JPEG_R file whose metadata includes a gainmap. This is essential for an HDR image version to be rendered on HDR displays and SDR images on SDR displays.
According to a well-known tipster, it is revealed that the update also includes new APIs, which help in enhancing the HDR image support in third-party applications like Chrome. It must be said that the addition of HDR is convenient enough for both photography freaks and inexperienced people. Noticeably, its image formats have powerful tools that stand in need of less tone map processing to offer an image a natural look.
Conventional HDR containers are limited and would need a lot of scrunching, trying to balance, and squeezing before getting the end product. For neglecting an imbalance between bright colors and naturally bright objects like the sky, the HDR arrives efficiently to make the total effort less bent on tone map processing while improving contrast.
Basically, this feature in Chrome is a huge plus for browser support and an out extent tool for creating such natural images as a norm. It’s noteworthy that HDR image support will work if the user’s phone or any other device supports SDR dimming on Android 14. The SDR dimming helps the users’ images to look good and clear, even after a dark or dim screen. So now, they don’t have to add any external or screen brightness to view their content.
The company launched basic HDR video support in 2016, giving smartphone and television companies a great kick-start in the race for high-quality content.
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