The Asian Age

LG to put selfie camera under the display

- AGE CORRESPOND­ENT

Rumours are rife suggesting Samsung will be the first smartphone manufactur­er to implement the front- facing camera under the display when they launch the 10th anniversar­y Galaxy S device. Now, it appears that LG also has joined this race and as per multiple patents filed by them, it appears that LG too, plans to add a camera under the display.

As per a report by Softpedia, LG has filed multiple patents with Korean Intellectu­al Property Office ( KIPO) that have been published on October 24 and November 2 portraying a smartphone with an edgetoedge display without bezels and an under- display camera.

The patent filings refer to two smartphone­s, both of which have full- screen displays that are edge- toedge. One of the smartphone­s come with straight edges and rounded corners while the next smartphone has the right side of the display curved.

The patent filings show both smartphone­s coming with flexible displays with Softpedia stating that this is the technology that smartphone manufactur­ers will start adopting to in the next few years. Both handsets also come with a hole in the display that allows a camera to be added under the screen with the hole being an oval shape that can in all likelihood encase more than a single camera unit.

The patent states, “The present applicatio­n design inside of panel the hole is directly formed and the display ( Full Screen Display) of the screen which observingl­y tightly kicks can be implemente­d and the effect that can minimize the bezel since it can have the camera within panel can be given.”

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