Apple puts in piles of patent applications but the latest bunch are very indicative of what we can expect from iPhone 5 and iPad 2. Apple is obsessed with camera patents right now with a flurry of snapper focussed documents emerging over the past week. We’ve pulled together the details after the jump and it paints a picture of seriously perked up camera smarts for iPhone 5 and the presumably camera-clad iPad 2…
After iOS 4.0 introduced iPhone HDR photos, it seems Apple is seriously about making the cameras it pops in the iPhone and the one it has long been rumoured to be slipping into the iPad 2 serious contenders. Jack Purcher at Apple patent obsessed site Patently Apple pulled together the latest collection of Apple camera patent applications and flags up three particular interesting ones.
First there’s a patent application for masking skin tones which should help to deal with portraits where flash has made everyone look paler than Count Dracula’s holiday snaps, then there’s one for correcting blurry photos, the bane of any mobile snapper’s life, and finally one for reducing noise in iPhone snaps.
Those three are not the end of the iPhone 5 and iPad 2 camera patent bonanza though. A poke around in the US patent database offers up a treasure trove of patent applications ranging from new methods for continuous image capture to enhanced ways of dynamically improving image quality.
The iPhone 4 camera is a leap forward compared to the one packed in the iPhone 3GS and it looks like iPhone 5 and the iPad 2 could well drop with distinctly superior snapping smarts built in. Hit the comments and let us know: how do you want Apple to amp up the iPhone camera?
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