New camera technology that will allow smartphone owners to focus on any objecting the frame will be introduced in the coming years, a report has said.
Japanese electronics giant Toshiba revealed that it is working on a camera module for smartphones and tablets that contains half a million tiny lenses.
Each captures the field of view with a different focal length, so that photographers can choose how to focus the image, the Telegraph reports.
According to the report, the compound lens structure has been compared to an insect's eye and the whole camera component, which is due to go into commercial production by the end of the year, currently measures roughly one cubic centimeter.
Similar plenoptic, or light field, technology is already available to consumers from Lytro, an American start-up spun out of Stanford University that introduced its first camera at the end of 2011.
The paper pointed out that smartphones have driven sales of standalone digital cameras down by a third since the introduction of the first iPhone five years ago.
While the quality of the images smartphones produce remains well short of what a dedicated camera is capable of, their convenience and connectivity of a smartphone has seen them become many owners' main camera, the paper added.
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