New patent app shows Apple working on improving video quality with advanced sensors

“A new patent application revealed this week, entitled ‘Video Acquisition with Processing Based on Ancillary Data,’ describes advanced techniques of processing video and improving picture quality. It describes plugging a camera or mobile device into a computer, which would then read “ancillary data” recorded by something such as an iPhone,” Neil Hughes reports for AppleInsider.

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“That data could be processed and used to help improve the image quality of the final product,” Hughes reports. “Using the data, the computer could filter and/or blend the images, or use a whole range of other tools, to give even amateur videographers the best picture quality possible.”

Hughes reports, “Features such as image stabilization have long been a feature of Apple’s video editing tools, including Final Cut Pro and iMovie ’09. But the newly described method would use sensors in a mobile device, like an iPhone, to improve picture quality even further.”

Read more in the full article, which contains illustrations from Apple’s patent application, here.

[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]