Google has filed a patent utility with the European Patent Workplace (by way of Forbes) titled “System and Equipment of Beneath-Show Digital camera.” The patent reveals a expertise that Google might use to make its Pixel handsets extra aggressive with the iPhone and with Samsung’s flagship Galaxy S collection telephones. The patent explains how Google plans on making a brand new under-display front-facing digital camera that will permit Pixel handsets to go with out a hole-punch digital camera or a notch thus leaving a full glass display screen on the entrance of the telephone.
Google needed to provide you with expertise that will permit the display screen to let gentle into the digital camera whereas nonetheless permitting the glass to perform as a show for the system. Whereas under-display cameras have been used on smartphones, Google’s model makes an attempt to enhance the standard of the pictures and movies taken by the under-display digital camera by taking two elements of the show and utilizing them to dam or distort the sunshine because it passes via the display screen.Â
Illustration from Google’s patent utility
Google says that this may be accomplished by putting a layer of light-blocking materials with totally different shapes and patterns between the show and the digital camera sensors. One layer can be positioned below every of the 2 aforementioned areas. One of many sensors might be for shade photographs whereas the opposite might be monochrome. Every of the sunshine blocking patterns can be designed to work with its sensor to enhance a specific attribute of a photograph or video. One instance can be the sharpness, one other might be shade constancy.
The sensors’ output is mixed collectively and together with digital picture processing and Machine Studying, a high-quality picture is created lessening the negatives of getting a digital camera positioned below the show. And since different makes an attempt to enhance under-display pictures have but to ship high-quality photographs, if Google does pull this off it might be a step forward of the competitors together with Apple and Samsung. Simply do not count on to see this on the Pixel 8 line when it’s unveiled this October, and the Pixel 9 collection subsequent yr.
