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Israeli Company Sues Apple Over Dual-Lens Cameras In iPhone 7 Plus, iPhone 8 Plus (macrumors.com)
Corephotonics, an Israeli maker of dual-lens camera technologies for smartphones, has filed a lawsuit against Apple this week alleging that the iPhone 7 Plus and iPhone 8 Plus infringe upon four of its patents. Mac Rumors reports: The patents, filed with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office between November 2013 and June 2016, relate to dual-lens camera technologies appropriate for smartphones, including optical zoom and a mini telephoto lens assembly: U.S. Patent No. 9,402,032; U.S. Patent No. 9,568,712; U.S. Patent No. 9,185,291; U.S. Patent No. 9,538,152. Corephotonics alleges that the two iPhone models copy its patented telephoto lens design, optical zoom method, and a method for intelligently fusing images from the wide-angle and telephoto lenses to improve image quality. iPhone X isn't listed as an infringing product, despite having a dual-lens camera, perhaps because the device launched just four days ago.
Oh please! Killing your enemies isn't human rights abuses it is just common sense. Israel has been under constant attack in one form or another since 1948. But since Israel has had the gall to kick the ever loving shit out of anyone stupid enough to attack them they get described as the bad guy.
As a thought exercise what do you think the US would do if someone in Mexico was constantly firing missiles over the border into the US? What do you think the US would do if millions of Mexicans were demanding unrestricted access to the entire US Southwest region including California? Their argument would be the US is illegally occupying their homeland and that occupation was created when US military forces claimed the region forcing refugees to run towards Mexico? The correct answer for both questions is the US would do anything it wanted to and nobody could stop them.