Xiaomi periscope camera patent

Since the era of full-screen mobile phones, we have experienced too many versions, such as Liu Haiping, water drop screen, hole screen and so on, in order to hide the active camera. After the following August, off-screen camera phones began to be released one after another. At present, the known versions are ZTE Axon30, Samsung Z Fold3 and Xiaomi MIX4, and another active hiding scheme has also appeared.

Recently, a patent of Xiaomi's front camera was exposed, which uses a periscope-like structure to hide the front camera in the screen frame. This structure will not be affected by the size of the camera module, and the external opening can be as close as possible. In terms of practicality, there is no off-screen camera, and there is no loss of screen pixels and camera pixels where the camera is located. The theory is better.

However, this scheme has certain requirements for the width of the screen border. Take K40, the smallest hole-digging mobile phone at present, for example, 2.8mm hole-digging should have 2mm+ BM removal area, like the screen frame in flagship machine at present, 2mm or even narrower. Therefore, if this patented technology falls to the ground, it will be more used for mid-range machines.

For example, to illustrate the off-screen camera scheme used by the flagship of 4000+, the control cost of the sub-flagship of 2000+ should be controlled in this frame camera scheme, and the screen frame of the mid-range machine itself is not so extreme. Using this scheme can also achieve a truly comprehensive screen effect, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone. Will Xiaomi's patent be used in K50 series?