If cameras with three or four lenses, as we have seen in smartphones such as Huawei or Samsung, look a lot like this, LG's new patent will surely take on an aberrant scale. According to a new patent filed by the South Korean manufacturer in the United States, the company has in mind a telephone which would incorporate in its back the significant number of sixteen cameras .

We discussed some time ago the intensification in the race to integrate as many lenses as possible in smartphones to make them more attractive to an audience that on many occasions seeks in the photographic section the maximum differentiation possible to opt for a terminal and another In this context, we have seen in recent months rumors and leaks hinting at a Nokia phone with five lenses in its rear camera, adding the bet from Samsung with its Galaxy A9.

But even so, from five to sixteen, there is a good distance. Because even if more is not always better – see Pixel 3 with its unique rear lens – the possibilities that such a component would offer to LG would be much wider than those of the competition. Some of them, fortunately for our thirst for knowledge, are detailed in the patent filed.

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Although it is still a patent and nothing confirms the company's future plans a device with these features (the maximum achieved by the technology is five goals on the LG V40 between the back and the front), some of the goals that would be achieved with these sixteen goals would be related to the shooting in in three dimensions and the subsequent edition of the same elements as a change of position forming part of the subjects of a photograph. We are also improving existing systems, such as enriching the data obtained by merging different photographs from one scene.

The problem to be solved with this phone, described by LG, is none other than the "provision of a mobile terminal and a control method for the terminal, in which a user can generating desired synthetic moving picture data using a plurality of images received through a camera provided with a plurality of lenses ".

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A product for which the company would use a new camera module with a square arrangement of 4×4 lenses that could also offer some relief to give a curvature to the idem LG also often refers to the software that would integrate the camera's interface of this phone, which would be consistent with the complexity of its many objectives and would have additional configurations to be able to run a greater number of actions.

A collection, in definitive, that would suppose a new jump in the field of photography for smartphones. It is unlikely that we will soon see a terminal with these characteristics, but we could begin to appreciate the details of the technologies that affect it in the next LG terminals.