Apple acquired the Israeli company Imaging LinX, which specializes in the design of advanced sensors of the thumbnail images. The cost of this purchase is $ 20 million, although the multinational famous bitten apple declined to report other details about the company’s future skills Linx.
The products LinX will aim to improve Apple’s products with superior quality photography to that of the SLR camera; this technology will donate to future Apple products better resolution of images taken.
The image quality will be the essential part using sensors LinX that will be mounted on the slats that will be able to determine the depth of field of capture. The diameter of the sensor will be responsible for the brightness of the picture and its sharpness. Since they will charge different diameters of opening, the graphics of the photos will be variables also offering higher brightness at night even without the flash.
The company LinX was founded in 2009 by students of the Technion in Haifa and the Weizmann Institute and is located in Israel. The co-founder Ziv Attar had previously worked as a specialist in optical systems in a company famous in Israel. This new technology will also allow you to have a better resolution of the photo to users of Instagram, Meerkat, Vine, Skype and Facebook.
Today, the resolution of the camera in mobile devices is very important to purchase and thank LinX now Apple could overcome even Samsung, which has always been famous for the quality of the images. With this investment the company is now in its third major acquisition. Israel thus became one of the favorite countries from Apple to make investments in addition to Switzerland and Canada.
Apple buys LinX to improve the camera
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