Vivo's pop-up rear camera phone patent revealed

According to foreign media LetsgoDigital, at the beginning of this year, vivo submitted a patent for "camera module, electronic device and camera module control method" to the World Intellectual Property Office (WIPO). It was disclosed on July 29, 2021 and describes a smartphone with an ultra-telephoto pop-up camera.

The document points out that current smartphones only support "low-magnification zoom function", while vivo's new patent can achieve "high-magnification zoom function". Vivo hopes to make a larger zoom range possible for mobile phones through its patented camera system.

According to the patent description, this smartphone is equipped with a pop-up camera system, in which the rear cameras are placed in the pop-up system, and the front camera is placed under the screen. The pop-up camera system has four expandable modules, similar to a trapezoidal structure, with up to 3 additional pop-ups, and the top lens is always available. Users can further adjust the lens as needed, and the lenses can overlap with each other to achieve a larger zoom range.

Previously, it was believed that the emergence of under-screen cameras meant the end of the era of pop-up camera systems, but through this patent, vivo demonstrated the possibility of pop-up cameras replacing rear cameras.