Apr 01
It’s always important to note, right off the bat, that the simple act of filing a patent doesn’t mean that the thing will ever come to fruition. Apple, for one, has been particularly aggressive in its paten filings over the years, from the plausible to the downright bizarre.
The company’s newly filed “Systems and Methods for an Imaging System Using Multiple Image Sensors” certainly falls into the former category. After all, the iPhone certainly wouldn’t be the first cell phone to implement 3D picture taking–heck, even the new Nintendo 3DS offers the feature.
It does, however, seem like the sort of thing Apple would wait to perfect before releasing on a handset. After all, 3D on phones is still firmly in the novelty realm. If such a feature ever does make it onto an Apple product, the company will likely wait until the perfect moment and spin the device as the first 3D capable phone.
In the patent, the company uses some similarly grandiose language, stating that it marks a “paradigm shift from the known software-based approaches.” The technology, according to the company, promises to take the guess work out of creating stereo images, thus improving overall image quality.
More on the patent over at Apple Insider.
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