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The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has granted Apple a patent regarding a periscope digital camera system that we might sooner or later see inside an iPhone.
UPSTO patent quantity 11,061,213 lays out the framework for a folded digital camera system that makes use of a pair of prisms, a lens array and a picture sensor to create a telephoto-style digital camera system, full with autofocus and/or optical picture stabilization. This sort of ‘periscope’ digital camera module is nothing new within the smartphone world as Samsumg, Xiaomi, Vivo and others have developed related mechanisms. However we consider this to be the primary granted patent from Apple showcasing the schematics and outline for a folded digital camera module.
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| A chronological breakdown of how a picture seize utilizing the periscope digital camera module would work. |
Inside the ‘Abstract of Embodiments’ part of the patent, Apple says the lens would offer a ‘low F-number (e.g., <=2.4), 3 instances optical zoom, and excessive decision imaging.’ For the reason that ‘3 instances optical zoom’ is often relative to the usual digital camera module on a smartphone, if we assume Apple makes use of the identical 26mm (full-frame equiv.) fundamental digital camera discovered within the iPhone 12, we might anticipate this digital camera module to be someplace within the vary of 75–85mm (full-frame equiv.).
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As with all patents, there’s no figuring out when, if in any respect, Apple will launch an iPhone with a periscope digital camera module, however newer leaks and rumors relating to the next-generation iPhone fashions does counsel the digital camera array will likely be even bigger than that of the iPhone 12 lineup. May that additional dimension be wanted for a folded optic digital camera module? We’ll simply have to attend and see.
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