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For Google’s Pixel Camera Team, It’s All About the Memories

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Google's Real Tone is designed to produce more accurate skin tones, especially for people of color.

Florian Koenigsberger is Google 's image equity lead and the person who spearheaded the project.

He says Real Tone in the latest Pixel 9 series supposedly offers some of the most notable improvements since its launch.

Google 's new Real Tone camera has been tested for all of Google 's “ Hero’s ” features across the Pixel 9 range.

This year 's Pixel 9 series is also the first time that Google 's skin tone classifier fully aligns with the Monk Skin Tone Scale , a 10 -shade scale released to the public that represents a broad range of skin tones.

New features in Google 's Pixel phones increasingly focus on specific instances rather than broad strokes changes to the general camera experience.

The HDR+ pipeline has been rebuilt in the Pixel 9 series .

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