iPhone 6, iPad 5, And iPad Mini 2 Will Feature Improved Camera Modules
Word has it that improvements in what concerns the cameras on the iPad Mini 2, iPhone 6 and iPad 5 we are to soon witness a few improvements, or so this is the idea we might get from Apple’s recently submitted patent applications.
To be more specific, the 4 patent submissions have been made public by the US Patent & Trademark Office and they all reveal what the main subject o the applications is – Apple means on bringing amendments and improvements on the level of color.
Taking it step by step, we are going to briefly mention that the 1st Apple patent submission introduces a new concept in terms of color, referring to a chromatic development which would further facilitate the coming up with new levels of color balances applicable to a series of sensors related to images. Moving on from here, we can detect a common tendency to be seen in all the 4 patents in terms of image updates. What this is stands in the conversion of RGB Raw data into the so called “novel chromaticity space” and what is more important or more special here is that this step should be met prior to going on with the actions of balancing the color or even prior to bringing any improvements on it. Now you understand what the direction the 1st patent wants to go forward with.
Having said that, it’s time to look into Apple’s 2nd submission as well – going on the same color direction, they are trying to work out a solution for improving arising issues that basically have to do with the white balance algorithm when in auto mode. They suggest a series of mechanism able to liaise these arising issues and the tool used to achieve this is the making use of a selection criteria based on noise optimization. This is the focus of the thirdly submitted patent. For those of you particularly interested in the topic, let me just say that the RBG value is one of the elements used in the development of the histogram. You will have to afterwards multiply it with the noise-optimized weighting tables.
We are now down to the very last recent Apple patent submission -which brings a few methods for correcting the color into the spotlight. You will need to be firstly making use of the” multi-illuminant color matric representation and interpolation” that have the approximated white point at its very basis. This should be done before going ahead with the method of white balance.
With the above in mind, the camera on the upcoming line of iPhones is supposed to be a 12-megapixel one that should also encompass HDR. Last but not least, the improvements in terms of a potential shoot in low light is also in the cards for this. We do at this stage suspect that there is not going to be a major improvement or direction in terms of designs, so there is a lot of pressure on an update in the camera department. Hopefully this shall be the case.The iPhone cameras have over the years triggered a lot of popularity, and they are currently not only used by amateurs, but even by professionals who take pictures for a living.We can even back this up with a recent example that happened back in November, when the cover image of a top-rated paper pictured one of the photos taken by an iPhone 4. Going on this trend perhaps, Apple is even marketing its camera to be the ones that have won the first place in terms of popularity in the hearts of users all around the globe, and if you would search which the best phone cameras are, you would get the ones sported on the iPhone 4s, iPhone 4 and iPhone 4as results. Perhaps we are to see some different changes as well from the company? Fingers crossed.
