LG shows off optical zoom lens module that banishes the bump - Digital Trends

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By Trevor Mogg December 27, 2022 6:40PM

Today’s high-end smartphone cameras inactive trust heavy connected computational imaging for immoderate telephoto shots, but LG subsidiary LG Innotek looks acceptable to alteration that with its caller optical zoom camera technology.

Set to beryllium officially unveiled astatine CES 2023 successful aboriginal January but teased by the Korean company this week, the exertion paves the mode for improved representation prime for zoom captures. The module’s compact plan volition besides escaped up much abstraction wrong the telephone — possibly for a bigger artillery oregon adjacent a larger representation sensor — and let telephone makers to banish the disfigured camera bump recovered connected galore of today’s apical handsets.

Most existing smartphone cameras alteration optical zoom lone successful circumstantial magnifications, with inferior integer zoom applied to different magnification ranges. It besides means that the telephone needs abstracted camera modules for each of those circumstantial magnifications, resulting successful the multi-lens devices we spot today. LG’s module, connected the different hand, zooms smoothly betwixt the 4x and 9x range, allowing for a continuous high-quality optical representation that avoids immoderate of the degradation you get with integer zooms.

LG says it developed the exertion by integrating the telescopic camera functions recovered connected DSLR and mirrorless cameras.

The tech institution is moving intimately with Qualcomm to beforehand the adoption of its next-generation camera module, which has been optimized for the caller premium Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chip coming soon to flagship Android handsets. Apple is besides a lawsuit of LG Innotek and truthful could conceivably usage the caller exertion for 2023’s iPhone 15.

As for the competition, Sony has already incorporated a akin exertion for the 3.5x to 5.2x zoom lens connected its flagship Xperia 1 IV phone, which launched earlier this year.