First, there was Apple’s dual-camera system. Then came Huawei’s triple-camera setup. Now, LG has filed a patent for a smartphone with a whopping 16 camera lenses fitted onto the back of the device.

In the patent, LG describes building a curved mechanism on the phone’s rear panel that could house several camera lenses.

This would enable several innovative uses, ranging from 3-D movies to the ability to stitch several different shots into a single image.

The patent also describes users being able to use the multi-image feature to cut certain subjects out of the photo or edit out objects and other errors.

To do so, users can trace around an object in the photo with their finger and move them around or take them out of the frame entirely.

“If any one of the graphic objects is selected, the image of the select part may be replaced with a part of the image taken from any one of the lenses corresponding to the rotation direction selected by the user,” the patent states.

The phone would use facial recognition to look for other snapshots of a person that would replace their head with one from a better photo. Users could also rotate the head of a subject in a photo to find the best angle.(SD-Agencies)