** Apple prepare a close GoPro camera **

Apple is currently working on the development of a mini camera, similar to those offered by the manufacturer GoPro (above). Credits: GoPro / Hero4

Apple filed a patent for a small portable camera, near the Mini-cameras currently sold by GoPro. After analysis of the patent, it appears that this new camera has neither more nor less ambition to dethrone the GoPro cameras, including through greater strength.

Apple will launch there soon a mini camera, similar to those currently offered by GoPro, but enjoying greater strength? In any case that suggests a patent filed by the firm at the apple, which focuses specifically on the development of a small portable camera.

Specifically, this patent was originally filed in 2012 by Kodak. It was later acquired by Apple in November 2013, on the occasion of a sale of portfolio containing over one thousand patents.
What does this patent? First, it explicitly mentions the GoPro brand, evoking the fragility of cameras sold by this manufacturer. This already suggests that the camera system protected by this patent is not far GoPro cameras.

But this patent also mentions other elements: it indeed indicates that the camera system described in this patent can be integrated with helmets for bicycle, the diving equipment, or be mounted on motorcycles or surfboards. So many uses for which the GoPro cameras are used in preferred manner.

And that's not all. Because the patent acquired by Apple as evoking this camera system could be remotely controlled by an iPhone, stating that such a system could be used to capture images, but also sound, as part of underwater dives.

Following the revelation of the existence of the patent, to the credit of the US blog Patently Apple (read the post "Apple Granted Patent is for a Superior-like GoPro Camera System" devoted to this new camera system) stock market operators are not mistaken: the new camera described in this patent acquired by Apple does have the ambition to dethrone the GoPro cameras, that the fall in the stock GoPro action of 12%, the occurrence January 13, clearly illustrates.