This could be how the iPhone 12’s camera beats the Note 20

The iPhone 12’s all-new camera feature just appeared online in full detail. While we expected upgrades were on the way for Apple’s latest flagship, now we know how one of them will work.

In a patent approved by the USTPO and spotted by PatentlyApple, the Cupertino company divulges the technical details of the Time-of-Flight sensor that’s packed in the iPhone 12’s camera array. 

Time-of-Flight is a type of LiDAR technology, which captures and scales an entire scene using infrared laser pulses. The time it takes for a laser to reach an object and return to the phone results in a Time-of-Flight (ToF) measurement.
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