Galaxy S11's 5x zoom camera may have optical image stabilization

Last updated: November 21st, 2019 at 16:39 UTC+01:00

If the Galaxy S11 rumors are anything to go by, it's going to get some major improvements in the camera section. The Galaxy S11 is expected to be the first smartphone from Samsung to offering 5x optical zoom capability.

Samsung's existing conventional 2x telephoto optical zoom lens has optical paradigm stabilization or OIS. Naturally, many are wondering if the 5x telephoto solution expected for the Galaxy S11 will have it also. That's because its telephoto solution volition be fundamentally different from what's being used currently.

OIS on Milky way S11'southward 5x zoom camera will be very useful

The company is expected to go with a periscope camera module for the Galaxy S11. To permit for 5x optical zoom on the device without the module protruding from the back, the sensor and lenses bundled sideways and the principle of reflecting lite in a periscope is utilized. This method allows for a longer telephoto lens to sit affluent with the body of a slim smartphone.

Samsung Electro-Mechanics has been making camera modules since 2003. Information technology recently announced the mass product of a 5x optical zoom photographic camera. What the company didn't say at the time is whether it features OIS besides. Since this module hasn't been used in a smartphone so far, that's not something known to the public just yet. It may ostensibly exist the module used for the Galaxy S11.

Nonetheless, we have discovered a patent application that Samsung Electro-Mechanics filed this week with the Korean Intellectual Property Office. The patent is for a periscope camera module with optical image stabilization. It further emphasizes on handshake correction which is what OIS makes possible. Information technology offers some detail virtually how the OIS module within the periscope camera would work to reduce movement blur.

Optical Paradigm Stabilization becomes even more of import at higher zoom levels. With OIS already being nowadays on its conventional telephoto camera, it would make sense for Samsung to want it on its periscope telephoto camera besides. That's too something for which customers will appreciate it a lot.

Granted, this is just a patent and so it doesn't ostend anything, but there's an element of circumstantial evidence here. Offset, the patent is filed by the partitioning that makes camera modules for Samsung. It was filed this week whereas most patent-based stories that yous read nearly online are about patents that were filed many years ago. At that place'southward also the timing. We're only a few months away from the Galaxy S11'south launch.

With rumors like 'Hubble' being the codename of the Milky way S11 photographic camera, there are high expectations from the device in his department. And so the possibility that this patent might exist describing the Milky way S11'southward camera can't be ruled out.