14 DAY TRIAL // With every new iPhone launched on the market by the Cupertino tech giant, we've seen Apple improve the camera technology on board.
A short while ago, we told you that a recent experiment conducted in Poland found that the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 and iPhone 6 handsets had the best mobile cameras.
Participants in the study were given some of the latest and greatest smartphones available on the market today, including the two we mentioned above, plus the HTC One M8, LG G3, Nokia Lumia 1020, Sony Xperia Z3 and others, and were sent out to take pictures around Morocco.
The results were then shipped off to professional photographers, who were asked to rank them best to worst. The experiment was actually a blind one, because professional photographers didn't know which picture was taken with which handset.
So given that Apple rests at the top of the pack while its camera technology inside the iPhone 6 is concerned, we do expect the Cupertino tech giant to up things once again with the next-generation iOS device it comes up with.
Apple granted a revolutionary camera patent
A recent patent dug up by GSM Dome suggests that this is indeed the case. The company has just been given the green light for a patent it filed a while ago, which describes a new tech that will allow for zoom lens to be integrated inside the small-sized body of the handset.
On top of that, the next-gen iPhone camera might make use of an innovative optical image stabilization (OIS) system.
Apple engineers are envisioning future smartphone cameras to be fundamentally different from what we can see today on the market.
According to the patent, future iDevices will take advantage of an L-shaped camera module (sensor not facing directly outwards) that allows light to enter via a pyramid-like polyhedron glass piece which has a reflecting surface at the bottom.
The pyramid will redirect the light down the tube of the L-shape, where it comes in conjunction with the zoom lens. A light splitter located behind the lens will fork the incident light from the shot scene into three colors that will in turn be picked up by three separate sensors, one for each color.
As for the OIS part, the documents detail that the reflector living behind the polyhedron is actually a folding mirror. The idea is that the reflector could be moved around to compensate for various shake-ups.
Considering this is a patent we’re talking about, don’t hold your breath for seeing the technology implemented in consumer-friendly electronics anytime soon.
