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Vivo patents smartphone with removable camera
Дата публикации: 02/07/2021
Vivo patents smartphone with removable camera
Vivo is patenting a smartphone with a removable camera that can fly into the air thanks to four propellers to get good pictures from a long distance. Some of us no longer leave the house without a smartphone in our pocket. We take our mobile phones with us everywhere, and they regularly end up on the table next to us. If it's up to the Chinese manufacturer Vivo, our smartphone will take an even more prominent place in the future. The company would prefer them to fly literally in this case.
A Chinese manufacturer has filed a very remarkable patent for a Vivo smartphone with a flying camera. The camera can be disconnected from your smartphone, after which it can take off into the air to take the most creative photos from different angles. A patent called "electronic device" was filed in December 2020 for Vivo mobile communications with the World Intellectual Property Office (WIPO). The 20-page documentation was released today, July 1, 2021.
At first glance, this is an ordinary smartphone. However, an additional compartment was installed at the bottom, which contains a dual-camera hidden camera system, three infrared proximity sensors, four propellers and an additional battery. The camera system extends out of the housing and is completely removed along with the mounting bracket.
The mounting bracket with integrated fingerprint sensor can be detached from the compact camera. The camera system can then fly into the air, thanks to the built-in propeller, to take pictures from a longer distance. Using infrared sensors, you can calculate the distance to other objects to avoid collisions during flight.
In the air, the flight camera can change position for more flexibility when shooting. Most likely, the operation will take place via a smartphone, and Air Gestures may also be supported – however, this is not discussed in more detail in the documentation. It is mentioned that one camera will be located at the top, the other – in front – by placing the cameras in different places, the user retains the ability to shoot from different angles. If desired, you can add a third and fourth camera.
However, the idea is not new. So-called AirSelfie cameras are already available, for example, check out this offer from Air Pix on Amazon, which is also shown in the image above. In 2018, LetsGoDigital also published information about Samsung's display device, which was also equipped with four propellers for flight.
However, Vivo is the first manufacturer to want to store this special drone with a camera in the smartphone itself. Therefore, it should be a relatively compact camera – the Air Pix variant has a size of more than 10 cm and therefore will never fit in the smartphone case. This also has an obvious drawback, because if the camera system is designed too small/too light, it will suffer from wind turbulence, which will not affect the sharpness of images. The Vivo gimbal stabilization system can be useful here.
Over the years, Vivo has launched some amazing smartphones on the market. Think, for example, of the innovative Nex series, which includes the Vivo NEX 3 and the Nex Dual display smartphone. Now the company is also trying to gain a foothold in Europe – just as its subsidiaries OnePlus and Oppo previously moved to the Old Continent. Several Vivo phone models are currently offered in Europe.
To further increase brand awareness, the company is also an official sponsor of EURO2020. many people have noticed ads on the Vivo X60 that are displayed during every match of the European Championship, according to many LED signs around the competition area. By the way, the X60 is also the first Vivo smartphone in which the camera system was developed in collaboration with German lens manufacturer Carl Zeiss. Time will tell if the Chinese manufacturer will see a chance to launch a smartphone with a flying camera on the market. In any case, it could provide the necessary publicity.
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