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Apple has not entered the megapixel camera war that other smartphone makers are engaged in and has instead preferred to improve picture quality in its iPhones without increasing the number of megapixels of the main camera. In the future, Apple may further ignore megapixels, a new patent application discovered by AppleInsider reveals, as the company has found a way to offer iPhone users a super-resolution camera mode without actually needing to increase megapixel count in future iPhone versions. The patent, titled “Super-resolution based on optical image stabilization,” reveals that with help of an optical image stabilization (OIS) camera and an image processing engine, the iPhone would be able to stitch multiple images together and create high-resolution pictures. “[This patent describes]