New Apple Patent Involves The iPhone And Blurry Images
It’s tedious work to take 500 images in an hour by using your iPhone and then browse through all of them to eliminate the ones that are blurry. It may be that you have taken a photo and your finger got caught in the picture leaving everything else you were trying to capture blurry and faded. Well, worry not since there’s a new Apple patent that will try and resolve all these issues. This new patent talks about a new technology that will keep all of your images in a buffer zone until you decide to release the shutter. The camera will continuously take pictures until then and store them. After that the device will search that buffer for all the images, assign a certain rating to them using special algorithms and finally pick the best one for you to use.
Apple’s patent is called “Image Capturing Device Having Continuous Image Capture” and was filed in last year’s October. It will also try and compensate for the delay you register between switching between full image and preview mode by presenting the user with just the preview image. The images in question is usually blurry and pixelated. The mechanism will buffer the images and quickly assign a score to each of them in such a way that the top ones will be searched for and presented to you. The best out of these will make the final image.
According to Apple’s filing, handsets typically use a preview image in presenting the user with a preview of what they’re shooting. It take just a bit for a device to switch between full-sized image and the preview mode but it’s noticeable. There’s a frustrating time-lag there and some people might not want to wait and start moving their cameras. Therefore blurry images.
Let us hope that this new patent will pave the way for a new technology that will in turn ensure that no more low-quality images will be ever taken with an iPhone. Most people use their phones to take everyday images of their cars, children, family and friends. Imagine how useful such a feature would be. You could take a thousand images a day and all of them would be perfect, just as intended. We’ll keep you updated in regards to this Apple patent.
