New patent shows how the Surface Duo camera could work

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A new patent shares details on how the camera might piece of work on the Surface Duo.
The patent implies that an upcoming dual-screen device could have a unmarried photographic camera.
According to the patent, the device could evidence what the photographic camera was capturing on 1 or both displays.

A new patent shows how the photographic camera could work on the Surface Duo (via WindowsUnited). U.s. Patent No: U.s. 10,440,632 B2 includes several details about how a dual-screen device from Microsoft could work. If certain aspects of the patent were used on the Surface Duo, the device might have a single camera that can be used for either selfies or rear-facing photos.

The patent was applied for past Microsoft Engineering science Licensing LLC. Information technology was originally filed on June 19, 2022. Information technology shows off several ways that a folding device with multiple displays could piece of work. Many of which seem like to what nosotros saw in the Surface Duo at the recent October Surface Event.

Sheets 3-12 of the patent have images or text describing a camera arrangement for a dual-screen device. At one point, the patent reads,

The mobile computing device may further include a camera mounted in the first part of the housing and configured to capture image information, the photographic camera and the first brandish both facing a first management, and a processor mounted in the housing. In the back-to-back angular orientation, the processor may be configured to cause the second display to display the image data while simultaneously causing the first display to display the image data and secondary content.

According to this text, the Surface Duo could have a unmarried photographic camera unit that can be used for front or rear-facing images. The device could show what is being captured on i or both displays depending on the orientation of the device.

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Equally with all patents, these technologies could be used on an upcoming device on the Surface Duo, or they may never see the light of mean solar day. In our assay of if the Surface Duo will have a rear-facing camera, we pointed out what appears to exist a spot for a camera on the dorsum of the device. That would be unlike than what this new patent covers.

The Surface Duo will likely have some sort of camera setup, but until Microsoft unveils more details, we tin can't confirm how that setup would look or work.

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