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  Apple is researching ways to eliminate lens distortion using multiple cameras in the flexible housing of a device such as an Apple Watch strap. You can't bend a lens without wrecking its optical properties. But you can have a series of camera lenses across a flexible surface, and by bending that housing, get a combined panoramic, or 3D, image. "Camera Systems for Bendable Electronic Devices," is a newly-revealed patent application, which is concerned with taking images with such a series of cameras, and then compiling them into one. "To capture wide angle photographs, some cellular teleph...

A future Apple Watch could feature a strap that has camera lenses embedded in it You can't bend a lens without wrecking its optical properties. But you can have a series of camera lenses across a flexible surface, and by bending that housing, get a combined panoramic, or 3D, image. "Camera Systems for Bendable Electronic Devices," is a newly-revealed patent application, which is concerned with taking images with such a series of cameras, and then compiling them into one. "To capture wide angle photographs, some cellular telephones support panoramic image capture modes," says the patent applic...