Apple has bought LinX in a deal worth around $ 20 million ( £13.5 million ) Tech giant has confirmed the acquisition but not revealed any more details . Comment: The company is called Linx, and it's an open source software that lets you run your own computer on top of Linux or Windows. Rather than capturing a flat 2D image , the technology is able to sense the depth of each object in a photograph and lets people refocus the shot .
Apple has bought LinX in a deal worth around $ 20 million ( £13.5 million ) Tech giant has confirmed the acquisition but not revealed any more details . LinX makes 'multi-aperture ' cameras small enough to fit into phones . Rather than capturing a flat 2D image , the technology is able to sense the depth of each object in a photograph and lets people refocus the shot .