This would be hard & confusing to optimize well, make energy efficient but... ideally... we should just sell camera hardware, without the software.
Let end users install & set up their own data-pipelines.
You'd need good application processors with honky gpus, and probably a lot of weird image processing hard blocks sprinkled in.
But relying on companys to navigate the software seas, especially with shitty ass patent minefields for dumb-as-fuck obvious-shit (todays: compress raw before you combine) littering the field, is just sad. This is like the invert of the much desired non-smart TV, one which is good hardware but doesnt rot, doesnt decay, doesnt get crappy revamps. When vendors make software it is rarely "soft" for users, it is fixed & immutable. So just sell the hardware. Have the world be free to figure out & explore as it will what to do with the hardware. Unbundle the software.
(And for god sake someome do something about the piece of shit degitimizing trashfire of ruin & obstruction that is the patent system. Software patents are almost always completely stupid, stop patenting information theory.)
Let end users install & set up their own data-pipelines.
You'd need good application processors with honky gpus, and probably a lot of weird image processing hard blocks sprinkled in.
But relying on companys to navigate the software seas, especially with shitty ass patent minefields for dumb-as-fuck obvious-shit (todays: compress raw before you combine) littering the field, is just sad. This is like the invert of the much desired non-smart TV, one which is good hardware but doesnt rot, doesnt decay, doesnt get crappy revamps. When vendors make software it is rarely "soft" for users, it is fixed & immutable. So just sell the hardware. Have the world be free to figure out & explore as it will what to do with the hardware. Unbundle the software.
(And for god sake someome do something about the piece of shit degitimizing trashfire of ruin & obstruction that is the patent system. Software patents are almost always completely stupid, stop patenting information theory.)