Coming just days after Digg’s founder Kevin Rose made a startling comment about the next generation Apple 3G iPhone, that it will have a front end camera which will enable video chat, a patent filed by Apple, a whole 3 years before the iPhone was launched, is the current buzz around the techtown. The patent declares a revolutionary technology in which thousands of sensors beneath the LCD display are optimised to behave like a camera and take small bits of images which can then be combined using a software to make a large image or a video. The technology now enables the CCD display to even capture videos. The zooming in feature works by the sensors having variable focal lengths and activated by a varying magnetic field. This patent, combined with Apple’s iChat could make the video chat facility a reality and also solve the problem of packaging the front camera by placing it right into the iPhone’s LCD display. While we cannot wait to sample this revolutionary technology on the iPhone, at the moment, we just need to keep our fingers crossed as Apple hasn’t confirmed any of this news yet.
Via: appleinsider
