New Patent Points at Camera Enhancements for Nokia’s Smartphones

Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia already touts its smartphones as being capable of delivering some of the best camera experiences available on the mobile market, but it seems that it is also looking at new means to improve them.

A recently spotted Nokia patent might be pointing at one manner in which Nokia’s upcoming smartphones would be packed with more advanced cameras, some of the latest reports on the matter suggest.

The patent filing describes the way in which a phone’s camera could adjust the aperture based on the surroundings, and might suggest that this is a feature that Nokia is planning on adding to its devices in the not too distant future.

According to a recent post on NokiaPowerUser, the feature might turn out to be the next phase of PureView, something that Nokia has been touting for quite some time now.

However, the patent filing is a recent one, and the feature might not make it inside a smartphone in the near future, provided that Nokia is indeed planning on enhancing its smartphones with such capabilities.

Here’s what an excerpt from the filing reads:

“Small aperture with high f- number increases the sharpness of distant objects, or in other words increases depth-of-field, which means more elements of a picture, from foreground to background, become sharply focused.

This can create a distinct sense of depth to a photograph, drawing the viewer into the picture. It is well-known that small apertures are used especially for most landscape photographs.

The large aperture produces shallow depth-of-field, which means the area of sharp focus in the picture will be small. It is well known that small apertures are used especially for isolating the subject of the picture while throwing the background and other distracting elements out of focus. Some useful applications of large apertures include portraits and wildlife close-ups.”

Hopefully, it won’t be too long before Nokia decides to provide some more light on this, so stay tuned for additional details on the matter. However, as mentioned above, don’t expect the feature to make it inside the company’s smartphones in the near or very near future.