Johnson Electric Holdings Limited (Johnson Electric) today introduced NanoLens, a new motion technology for autofocus in cellphone cameras. Photo-shooting with cellphone cameras may never be the same in the future as close-up and action shots will be captured in-focus automatically.

Johnson Electric's NanoLens is a technology enabler that opens up opportunities for new applications and fresh revenue for service providers in the mobile phone industry. With autofocus accuracy and speed for cellphones, new value added applications will be possible for professionals such as doctors, engineers, realtors and others, people who currently do not use the cellphone camera for photo-taking and photo-messaging because of poor image quality.

The new technology resolves the issue of motion quality, which determines image quality. Speed, accuracy, smoothness and repeatability are all critical elements of motion and image quality. NanoLens, with its lens motion module, represents a technology breakthrough as it is the highest performance autofocus module available today.

Johnson Electric will demonstrate its NanoLens prototype at the 3G World Congress and Exhibition event at Hong Kong's Convention Centre, from 14-18 November 2005. Product roll-out is expected sometime in early 2006.

via mobilewhack

Recently, Samsung has also announced a small camera module,

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