New Delhi: Apple has been granted a patent for a new camera technology that will use light-splitting cube to provide improved image quality. This new technology could potentially be incorporated in Apple's next iPhone.
The patent states that the new camera will feature three separate imaging sensors and each of them would be designed to capture a single primary colour component, delivering vastly superior colour reproduction which will be three times more than the results by standard single-sensor systems.
A report in the Forbes noted that the latest patent builds upon a previous patent which employs movable zoom lens elements and an adjustable mirror in a periscope-like arrangement designed to deliver optical image stabilisation.
A new camera based on this technology could be mounted sideways in the phone and provide a true optical zoom lens with improved image quality that doesn't compromise on the thickness of the phone.
Most single-sensor cameras use a grid of coloured filters to divide the total number of pixels available into red, green, or blue types. The camera then interpolates these single-colour outputs into a full colour image, this leads to about two-thirds of the colour in the final JPEG as a result of guesswork and clever mathematics.
With the new technology, no colour filters will be required as the colours will be split before they reach the sensors.
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