It will allow Apple to use more pixels compared to a single sensor, dramatically improving the quality of videos and still images.Apple is doing some groundbreaking research in camera technology to make the iPhone 7 camera an even better video recorder.
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted Apple a new patent (via Apple Insider) for a three-sensor light splitter camera technology that could be used in the iPhone 7. Recently, supply chain sources told Kevin King of IHS technology that mass production of the upcoming iPhone 6S is scheduled to begin in June. So, there is a possibility of the new camera technology being used in the iPhone 6S as well. The iPhone 7 is unlikely to arrive before 2016. The Cupertino company may embed the three-sensor based camera module in its future iPhones to make them the best smartphone camcorder. The technology splits the incident light entering a camera into three wavelengths or colors, via mirrors, lenses or prisms. The three light components are then directed to three dedicated sensors.
In a feat that calls to mind the memory-tweaking technology in the film "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind," a team of researchers restored "lost memories" in the brains of mice. The mice in the study were given a drug that prevented them from consolidating a fearful memory. But when neurons involved in encoding the memory were stimulated with pulses of light, the animals were able to retrieve the forgotten recollection. In some forms of amnesia, past memories may not be erased, but may just be inaccessible for recall, said Susumu Tonegawa, director of the RIKEN Brain Science Institute in Japan and co-author of the study, said in a statement. If the findings are confirmed in humans, the knowledge could benefit people who suffer from retrograde amnesia, an inability to recall memories that were made before the amnesia, which is common in traumatic brain injury, Alzheimer's disease and other brain disorders. Scientists have long debated whether retrograde ...
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