Not all patents make it into finished products either and there's no guarantee that this will make it into the iPhone.
Writer - Liam McClelland | @Liamicy
Is Apple working on a waterproof iPhone? Firm files patent for taking photographs underwater11/8/2016 Credit Techdoze Apple has been granted a patent related to underwater photography that would allow for more natural and realistic-looking shots to be taken while submerged. According to the filing, made in 2013, granted in 2015 but only published this week, the system would allow for better colour-balancing in photographs taken underwater. Of course, the obvious assumption is that Apple doesn't have a waterproof phone capable of taking any shots underwater, at least not yet anyway. "In some embodiments, colours near the colour of the water itself are protected to leave the water looking blue. Removing undesirable tints without removing the tint of the water itself results in images with more realistic colouring of people and objects in the scene, without eliminating the colour cues (e.g., blue water) that indicate the image is a photograph of an underwater scene," the filing, first spotted by Patently Apple, explains. Before you bound off excited that the next iPhone will be waterproof (it might be), there's almost zero chance an iPhone's about to start replacing dedicated underwater cameras, not least of all because most smartphones that offer waterproofing only do so for limited amounts of time at relatively shallow depths, like Samsung's Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge.
Not all patents make it into finished products either and there's no guarantee that this will make it into the iPhone. Writer - Liam McClelland | @Liamicy Editor: Liam McClelland | @Liamicy
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