A new Apple patent was published today and we have before us a new method by which Apple try to improve the way our iDevices take pictures. The patent from Apple describes a system by which our terminals would compensate for the tilt of the device when we take a picture through a software system implemented in iOS. Basically, Apple could implement a system that will help us take good pictures regardless of the way the terminal is tilted or the perspective from which we take the pictures. In iOS 5, Apple implemented in the Camera application a system called grid lines, which consists of dividing the screen into several units that help users arrange the objects they want to take a picture of on the screen. The system proposed by Apple through the new patent would work similarly and would modify the pictures before they are actually saved in the terminal and the final result will be a perfectly aligned picture that probably will not require any further modifications.
may include an image sensor, a memory coupled to the image sensor, an orientation measurement device coupled to the image sensor, and a distance measurement device coupled to the image sensor, where the image data may be stored in the memory along with a measurement from the accelerometer and along with a measurement from the distance measurement device
In the technical explanations provided by Apple, it is explained that the sensors inside the iDevices could be used to help modify the pictures after the user has recorded them. The accelerometer, gyroscope or GPS could be used to compensate for the tilting effect of the terminal during the recording of pictures, but for now everything is presented only theoretically. This patent will probably not even be used by Apple, but it is interesting to know that it is being worked on.
