As reported by Bloomberg Law, a portal dedicated to legal news, last Saturday (4), Apple is facing a lawsuit from ImmerVision, a Canadian technology company specializing in image processing and wide-angle lenses, claiming that the giant has incorporated one of its inventions into cameras of devices ranging from iPhone 11, 12 Mini, 13 Pro Max through to iPad 2021. The process came in October, and more recently some of that gear was included in the action.
The technology employed by Apple would violate a patent granted to a Canadian company in 2005. In this, the principle would have been broken with “structures of objective lenses which compress the center and the edges of an image, while widening an intermediate zone”.
Presumably, then, the ultra-angle sensor on Apple devices – whose 120-degree wide view is set by iOS – is supposed to be the problem to be solved.
Through the lawsuit, ImmerVision seeks damages – in an amount not specified in the document – and an order to block future use of the invention. The official lawsuit was filed in federal court in the city to block future use of his invention, according to the lawsuit filed in federal court in Wilmington, Delaware. Apple has yet to officially comment on the matter.
(Updated December 10, 2021 at 1:14 PM)
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