Is this the future of a selfie camera? See what Samsung has patented

We have already seen several ideas on how to effectively and deftly hide the front camera in the body of the mobile phone. At first they were part of the frame, then they settled in cutouts or shots, and sometimes more creative solutions appear. Such a Xiaomi Mi 9T tried it with a retractable panel, and ZTE pushed the first phone with a front camera hidden under the display into mass production and sales. There is, of course, a great deal around this issue lots of patents, most of which only end in a drawer. The following patent, through which the Korean Samsung registered, will also be awarded very special retractable and rotating selfie camera?

Samsung patent for a retractable and at the same time rotating selfie camera

The drawings you see in the gallery are the work of LetsGoDigital, which focuses on redrawing patent drawings. She added to them as well renders of the resulting phone, if any, which would theoretically belong to the A series. The pictures show a module with cameras, which at first glance might seem only “normally” retractable. Similar to the Xiaomi Mi 9T. But that’s not all. In addition, it should also rotate vertically 180 ° so that the cameras on it can point to the area in front of the phone. There are no lenses on the other side of the module.

The solution seems elegant, but it would be impractical in several respects. For example, the watertightness of the device would be poorly addressed. It would probably be difficult to back down from that nowadays. In addition, the module itself would be very susceptible to mechanical damage in this embodiment. Despite the fact that Samsung has demonstrated something similar with the A80 model in the past, we see this patent for a retractable and at the same time rotating selfie camera more for storage in a drawer.

How would you handle the front camera? Do you need it at all?

Zdroj: LGD