Huawei's under-screen camera patent revealed, waterfall screen design

Recently, the State Intellectual Property Office announced two mobile phone appearance patents of Huawei. The mobile phones in these two patents both use an under-screen camera design. They were applied for by Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. to the State Intellectual Property Office of China on October 28, 2019. Each patent contains 7 mobile phone product pictures.

Image source: State Intellectual Property Office

The first appearance patent shows a picture of a mobile phone with an under-screen camera. From the top view and the bottom view, the phone has no speakers and is expected to use screen sound. From the front view and the side view, the phone adopts a waterfall screen design and has no physical buttons for volume and power. The back has a vertical triple-camera system. The third lens is rectangular, which may be a periscope zoom lens. The flash is located between the second and third lenses.

Image source: State Intellectual Property Office

The second appearance patent is similar to the first one in front shape, with a circular camera on the back that can accommodate four camera lenses, all of which are circular, similar to the Mate series.

Previously, Xiaomi and OPPO have both demonstrated engineering machines with under-screen camera technology, but there has been no news of mass production. Now Huawei's under-screen camera appearance patent has also been exposed. I wonder who will be the first to mass-produce this technology. Let's wait and see.