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IN PHOTO: Apple's iPhone 6 are displayed during a news conference by Customs and Excise Department and the police in Hong Kong September 21, 2014. Reuters/Bobby Yip

Camera has always been a selling point for many smartphones. Especially with the advent of selfies and photo sharing platforms, having a good camera on a handset is now a must. Apple will reportedly take this further as the company invests on prism technology that can offer more life-like photos. More importantly, if the company makes it in time then people might see the new camera technology in the iPhone 6s slated for later this year. Will the prism-based camera be a reality? Can Apple make another killer handset release?

The recent information came from a patent sighting. Apple was granted a patent under the the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The patent goes by the number 8,988,564, with the title: Digital camera with light splitter.

To understand the technology, an excerpt of the patent goes: "A digital camera device comprising a device housing in which the following are integrated: a light splitter cube having an entrance face to receive incident light from a camera scene, the incident light from the camera scene entering the housing through a face of the housing, a depth from the face to an opposite side of the housing being shorter than length and width of the face, the light splitter cube to split the incident light into red, green, and blue, second and third color components that emerge from the light splitter cube through a first exit face, a second exit face and a third exit face of the light splitter cube..."

Apple also adds: "zoom lens system positioned entirely in a path of the deflected incident light between the deflector and the entrance face of the light splitter cube, wherein the zoom lens system comprises more than two moveable lens elements." As with other patent sighting, this may or may not be included in the next iPhone release but analysts are convinced it may soon be reality. Other expected features include Force Touch, additional RAM and A9 chip.

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