The Chinese language tech big is reportedly bringing ‘liquid lens’ know-how to its Huawei P50 flagship telephones subsequent 12 months. It’s designed to offer fast autofocus and superior picture stabilization utilizing a brand new form of lenses.

Producers sometimes make use of two methods to stabilize the footage you shoot along with your smartphone. EIS or digital picture stabilization makes use of intelligent software program magic to cut back the shakiness, whereas OIS or optical picture stabilization permits the digital camera to compensate for shakes at a {hardware} stage. Plus, there are extra progressive applied sciences just like the miniaturized gimbal system and the eye-tracking AF that Vivo launched with their flagships. 

Even with the tiny gimbal, autofocusing doesn’t turn out to be instantaneous. However the period will be trimmed right down to milliseconds utilizing the liquid lens tech. 

The idea of integrating liquid lenses in telephones has been floating round for over a decade.  However what’s a liquid lens? True to its identify, a liquid lens is simply that — a lens fabricated from liquid crystal that enables gentle via. However as a substitute of utilizing shifting mechanical bits, this next-gen know-how runs a present via the liquid, reshaping it and the way it focuses gentle. The shapeshifting lens can discover and lock onto a topic (particularly those in movement) in a fraction of a second.

Huawei filed the patent final 12 months, and it was accepted in April 2020. The Chinese language cellphone leaker Digital Chat Station predicts that the liquid lens tech will go into manufacturing subsequent 12 months. Huawei plans to mix it with the Sony IMX782 sensor to be used in a telephoto digital camera. 

It could make sense for this function to debut with Huawei’s photography-first flagship P-series. Huawei P30 sequence was the primary to function periscope-style zoom lenses that shortly grew to become the usual for flagship-level zooming. And the upcoming P50 could possibly be the world’s first to function a liquid lens telephoto digital camera — probably setting a brand new development in movement.