According to foreign media LetsgoDigital, vivo often launches some innovative smartphones. For example, the recently released vivo S10 uses a photochromic backplane, which only takes three seconds under direct sunlight. Can change color.
At the beginning of this year, vivo mobile communications company submitted a patent for “camera module, electronic equipment and camera module control method” to the World Intellectual Property Office (WIPO). This 23-page document was released on July 29, 2021, and describes a vivo smartphone with an ultra-telephoto pop-up camera.
The document pointed out that current smartphones only support “low zoom function”, and the new vivo patent can achieve “high zoom function.” In other words, Vivo hopes to make it possible for mobile phones to have a larger zoom range through its patented camera system. Vivo already has some smartphones with excellent zoom cameras. For example, the vivo X30 Pro has two telephoto lenses with 5x and 2x zoom.
In order to better understand vivo’s patented super zoom camera technology, graphic designer Technizo Concept produced a series of product renderings based on the patents applied for by vivo.
This phone has a pop-up camera system, but the camera is not facing forward, but facing backward. In other words, the rear camera is incorporated into the pop-up system, and the front camera is placed below the screen.
The pop-up camera system has four expandable modules , similar to a trapezoidal structure, with an extra lens sliding out each time. The lens below will always be available, and users can further expand the lens as needed.
The lenses can partially overlap each other to achieve a larger zoom range. Unfortunately, the document does not specify the optical zoom data. However, this should be much higher than current smartphones with periscope zoom cameras.
It is still unclear where the flash will be integrated. However, in the Technizo concept design, a stylish flash ring was placed around the lower camera lens, maintaining the integrity of the symmetrical design.
Vivo has released several smartphones with pop-up cameras, including vivo Nex, vivo V15 Pro and V17 Pro. However, there are fewer and fewer smartphones with pop-up cameras, and these camera systems are said to be more susceptible to wear and tear.
Many people believe that the under-screen camera will automatically mean the end of the pop-up camera. However, through this patent, vivo shows that the pop-up camera can also be used to replace the rear camera.