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Brand patents a smartphone with a 16-lens rear camera

If the cameras with three and four lenses - which we have already seen on smartphones like those of Huawei or Samsung - you seem many, surely the new LG patent will acquire aberrant proportions for you. According to a new patent filed by the South Korean manufacturer in the United States, the firm has in mind a phone that would incorporate in its back the not inconsiderable amount of sixteen cameras.We talked a while ago of the intensification in the race to incorporate as many lenses as possible into smartphones in order to make them more attractive to an audience that often looks in the photographic section the maximum possible differentiation to choose between a terminal and another. In this context, we have seen in recent months some rumors and leaks that point to a Nokia phone with five lenses in its rear camera, adding in this way one to the bet of Samsung with its Galaxy A9.But, all the same, from five to sixteen there is a good stretch. Because although more is not always better - see the Pixel 3 with its unique rear lens -, the possibilities that such a component would provide LG would be noticeably broader than the competition. Some of them, for the sake of our thirst for knowledge, are detailed in the patent presented.Expanding its purposeAlthough it is still a patent and there is nothing confirmed about future plans of the company to realize a device with these characteristics (the maximum achieved by the technological are five lenses in the LG V40 between rear and front), some of the objectives which would seek to fulfill these sixteen lenses would be related to the taking of images in three dimensions and the subsequent editing of elements the same, as changing positions part of the subjects of a photograph. Also improving systems that already exist as the enrichment of the data obtained by merging different photographs of the same scene into one.The problem to be solved with this phone, as described by LG, is none other than that of "providing a mobile terminal and a control method for the terminal, in which a user can generate desired synthetic motion picture data using a plurality of images received through a camera provided with a plurality of lenses ".



An issue for which the firm would use a new camera module with a square arrangement of 4x4 lenses that could also have some relief to give it curvature. LG also refers repeatedly to the software that would incorporate the camera interface of this phone, which would go according to the complexity of its numerous lenses and would have additional configurations to be able to execute a greater number of actions.
A compendium, in short, that would imply a new leap in photography for smartphones. It is not likely that we will soon see such a terminal, but we could begin to appreciate details of technologies related to this in the upcoming LG terminals.


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