Apple's mobile phone lens display system patent

Recently, a new patent of Apple was exposed. This patent shows a technology called "folding camera", which is described as: a camera module composed of multiple lenses can be integrated into mobile devices, thus bringing better shooting results; Moreover, the shape, material and arrangement of refractive lens elements in the lens group can be selected, and at the same time, the back focal length is long enough to adapt to the second prism, thus bringing high-resolution and high-quality images.

Although the patent description is so complicated, the patent map is so "tall". In fact, this technology has been adopted by Android phones of major manufacturers, perhaps on the mobile phone you are using now. Yes, this is the periscope camera that is common on Android flagship mobile phone.

Huawei P40 Pro series, Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra, Xiaomi 10 Extreme Commemorative Edition ... Android phones with periscope cameras have been seized in large quantities, why did Apple delay using them?

Lu Zeng, general manager of Redmi brand, said that periscope cameras have two biggest "disadvantages": expensive and big. The former will increase the cost of mobile phones, while the latter will make the mobile phones that are already worth an inch of land face greater challenges. I suspect that the cost of the iPhone is not cheap. Apple's paranoia and strictness in design are the reasons why the iPhone does not use a periscope camera.

But don't be disappointed. There is also a heavy news exposed together with the patent map: the patent is expected to be used for iPhone models launched in 2022, and it is most likely to be used on iPhone 14 according to time. Thanks to this patent, it will bring 10- 100 times zoom capability to iPhone.

In other words, next year's iPhone 14 will be the first iPhone equipped with a periscope camera, which will support zoom up to 100 times.