Samsung patent indicates smartphone with movable camera lenses

A Samsung patent indicates that the manufacturer is working on a smartphone with movable camera lenses. A movable lens may be able to capture more of a particular scene or object with greater detail.

The configuration from Samsung’s example consists of five cameras with wide-angle lenses and one telephoto lens, Android Police reports based on the patent application. The application is from last year, but has only now come online.

The application states that the series of movable cameras enables several new functions, such as taking panoramic photos with a single click or a panorama photo with ‘bokeh’ function to blur the background behind the object.

The cameras in the setup can also have different features, such as a camera without an infrared filter to see more in low light, a monochrome camera to capture more detail, or cameras with larger but fewer pixels to improve low-light performance. improve.

It is unknown if Samsung will ever put the idea into practice. There have already been phones with pivoting cameras, such as 2013’s Oppo N1 and last year’s Asus Zenfone 6. In no case were these cameras that could rotate over several axes independently of each other.