In line with yesterday's report claiming that the iPhone 6 will retain an 8-megapixel rear camera while focusing on other aspects such as image stabilization to improve performance, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office yesterday published an Apple patent application (via Unwired View) outlining a system for implementing optical image stabilization (OIS) with improve autofocus (AF) capabilities in miniature camera such as those found on iOS devices. Apple's iPhone 5s introduced last September includes software-based image stabilization, a system that involves taking four photo
