The south korean company LG receives patent for a smartphone with sixteen rear cameras! Recently, another South Korean company Samsung had launched the Galaxy A9 (2018) which has four rear cameras and just a while ago it was reported that HMD Global is working on a Nokia 9 phone which has 5 rear cameras. Now the new reports revealed that LG got a patent for its phone with Sixteen cameras.
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Last week, on November 20, LG was granted the patent for a phone with sixteen rear cameras and the patent was granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). The pictures in the patent show the cameras are arranged in a 4×4 grid.
It is reported that the users will be able to choose and combine multiple lenses simultaneously before taking a picture or even combine multiple parts of photos taken by the different cameras into a single one or a moving image.
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Further, the 16 cameras on the device can also be used to take selfie photos as the patent says the mobile phone can have a sort of “mirror” integrated on the back or even a secondary display. However, the smartphone will still have a front camera for the selfies and video calls.
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The patents also reveals few other things like the potential integration of a touchpad or a speaker, placed alongsidd the back camera. Moreover, the patent mentioned the possible implementation of the cameras into a foldable phone or a flip phone.