A new patent filed by Samsung went to WIPO and shows an interesting folding smartphone with a new feature. Samsung has built smartphones in the past with rotating camera modules, but the patent shows the first time that a rotary camera has been combined with a folding device. The patent is entitled “Foldable electronic device having a rotating camera and a method for capturing images.”
The patent describes a folding smartphone with a rotary camera and a photography method that rests on this rotating camera. Samsung has written in the patent that conventional electronic devices are constructed with the direction of the faces of the camera lens being fixed. For images of other views, the user must change the direction of the smartphone itself.
To solve the dilemma of the users who had to change the orientation of their smartphone to take pictures at different angles, the patent describes a rotary camera allowing the smartphone to be maintained in the same orientation, but to collect photographs of angles. variables. As with most patents, part of the label is confusing.
Essentially, Samsung says that the folding smartphone with the rotating camera can check the folding angle of the housings and the housing posture to predict the intentions of the user when taking a photo. The lens would be adjusted in the direction of the rotating camera, so that the shooting direction corresponds to the intention of shooting the user.
The patent speaks of a motion sensor module for detecting the foldable device posture and a folding angle sensor module to predict the angle of the first housing structure and the second housing structure. It seems that the camera module can turn automatically.
Samsung writes that when a photo demand is received by the camera sensors, the processor checks the device posture information detected from the motion sensor and information on the folding angle of the module. Folding angle sensor. It would adjust the direction of the lens of the rotary camera according to this information. It should be noted that a patent is not a guarantee that the technology will never appear on a retail product.