Samsung patent reveals tilting camera lens array for Smartphone
A new Samsung patent reveals they are working on a smartphone with six camera lenses that can tilt, sitting in an array. A lens would then capture more of a particular scene or object with greater detail.
Samsung's design consists of five wide-angle lenses and one telephoto lens. Although the patent application was made last year, it is only now public. The 'movable' cameras allow users to take panoramic photos with a single click. It is also possible with this type of photos to blur the background behind the object. In addition, the individual cameras would have different features, including a monochrome camera for more details and features to improve low-light performance. Whether these cameras will actually be introduced is unknown. In any case, it is new that multiple cameras can rotate independently over several axes. The news brought by android police is definitely interesting as this is a first for smartphones, not including the rotating lenses:
Samsung phones are some of the most popular devices on the planet, but just because it sells phones that appeal to mainstream consumers doesn't mean its averse to trying out crazy new concepts. It was one of the first companies to place bets on foldables with the Galaxy Fold and its upcoming sequel. Now, a newly-published patent filed by Samsung reveals it is thinking about a fascinating new vision for smartphone cameras.
Last year, Samsung applied for a patent called 'Apparatus and method for operating multiple cameras for digital photography', and the 55-page document has now been published online. It appears to show that the company is experimenting with a camera array featuring five wide-angle lenses and one telephoto lens, as well as other variations. But what's really interesting here is that the cameras are tiltable, with each lens being able to tilt independently of the others. Theoretically, a device could optimize the camera array configuration using special image processing algorithms that achieve greater quality than if the sensors were immovable.
One great example of a way this could work is when photographing a panoramic landscape. With the outside camera lens tilting toward the edges and the center ones remaining straight, a device could capture a wider, higher-quality image by taking data from all six lenses and combining them into one awesome snapshot.
It's unknown whether or not this technology will ever find its way into a smartphone though, for now, its merely a patent.
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Yeah, kind of looks like how they achieve 3d, even tho that doesn't even need an angle shift.
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I'd rather buy a REAL camera for 800€ and a phone for 200€, over buying an overpriced piece of tech for 1000€ that does the same as a cheap phone but could never take the same pictures a dedicated camera does.
Plus, the battery will be dead in 2 years so you're stuck with a 1000€ brick: no thank you. But hey, people think you need to spend thousands on phones to be social accepted, good for them!
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I wish all manufacturers would just put in a lens which can be rotated 90 degrees facing out of top of phone instead of back of it like now
So we could hold phone horizontal and still record in front. Ridiculous having to hold a phone up vertically just because camera is on back.
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But.... why? You've got an absurd amount of cameras on the back yet you can't just include one with an ultrawide lens?
Seems like a solution looking for a problem.
Unlike Samsung's idea, this is actually a really great one.
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Image shows tilting of entire camera, not just lens.