iPhone Periscope Camera Patent Granted Ahead of Rumored 2022 or 2023 Debut

Posted by FridayoLeary on Tuesday July 13, 2021 @10:39AM
from the macrumors.com dept.

https://www.macrumors.com/2021/07/13/iphone-periscope-camera-patent-granted/

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Re:iPhone Periscope Camera Patent Granted Ahead of Rumored 2... by fddddd on Tuesday July 13, 2021 @10:44AM (#27821602)

so the same thing Panasonic did with with their waterproof cameras a decade ago?

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Re:iPhone Periscope Camera Patent Granted Ahead of Rumored 2... by Someone on Tuesday July 13, 2021 @11:00AM (#27821813)

I don’t know what that looked like, but reading the article, I get the impression Apple added a superfluous (I don’t see it serve any useful goal) second “light folding element” to work around other patents.

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