article_snippet.sent: The papers, originally filed in 2011, detail a three-sensor camera that splits light to boost the number of pixels light can manage.
article_snippet.sent: The patent is called 'Digital camera with light splitter' and explains: 'A digital camera component is described that has a light splitter cube having an entrance face to receive incident light from a camera scene. 'a light splitter cube having an entrance face to receive incident light from a camera scene splits the incident light into first, second, and third colour components that emerge from a light splitter cube having an entrance face to receive incident light from a camera scene through a first face, a second face, and a third face of the cube, respectively.
article_snippet.sent: Put more simply, instead of using a standard single sensor to collect the data of an image, the proposed system uses mirrors to split the incoming light in three, namely green, red and blue.
article_snippet.sent: A patent filed by Apple in 2011 and awarded earlier this month details a three-sensor camera (illustrated) that uses mirrors to split incoming light in three - namely green, red and blue .
article_snippet.sent: A patent filed by Apple in 2011 and awarded earlier this month is called 'Digital camera with light splitter' and explains: 'A digital camera component is described that has a light splitter cube having an entrance face to receive incident light from a camera scene. '
article_snippet.sent: a light splitter cube having an entrance face to receive incident light from a camera scene splits the incident light into first, second, and third colour components that emerge from a light splitter cube having an entrance face to receive incident light from a camera scene through a first face, a second face, and a third face of the cube, respectively.'
article_snippet.sent: Put more simply, instead of using a standard single sensor to collect the data of an image, the proposed system uses mirrors to split the incoming light in three - green, red and blue.
article_snippet.sent: The files also explained that these mirrors could stabilise the image and direct the light in a way that accounts for shaking hands, for example.