The US Patent and Trademark Office recently revealed a newly-granted Apple patent that details a method for capturing stereoscopic image data in software, a possible precursor to a depth-enabled photography mode for the company’s mobile devices. Entitled simply “producing stereoscopic image,” the patent describes a system in which a computer can identify two suitable digital photographs from a range of options than combine those photographs into a single stereoscopic image. This is particularly challenging, according to the patent, for photographers due to the need to manually ensure that the chosen photographs