In recent years, Huawei has shown with results that the cameras of its mobiles are a very important element and continue to develop technologies that improve results . The liquid lens is one of the advances that are most expected and after several patents, everything indicates that they will be ready for the Huawei P50, which will be the successor to the Huawei P40 and the entire series.
The patent by Huawei was filed on December 25 and after an exhaustive analysis it was approved last April. This gives rise to Huawei engineers and developers begin to work on creating these new lenses, which need several months of development for us to see them in action.
Improvements for the Huawei P50 with this lens
In relation to what we know of this new technology for photo cameras, developed at the beginning of the century by the French physicist Bruno Berge, we can know that it is an alternative to lenses or what it means that we can enjoy more functions in the cameras of the expected Huawei P50. Until now to change the focal aperture on our mobile we had to opt for the software, although some companies such as Samsung have achieved this with a series of variable rings.
In this case we manage to vary the focus point, the focal aperture and improve the zoom of the mobiles with a small mechanism. These advances will be able to eliminate the step of the cameras of the mobiles by not needing a greater space to make it possible, only the adaptation of the liquid lens. Furthermore, this technology would improve stabilization , making us not need the optical stabilizer that we find in more and more mobiles.
How the liquid lens works
To achieve all these improvements, a water and oil base is used, which would be integrated into the lens of the Huawei P50. This combination makes it possible to vary the capacity of the lens through a small mechanism that adapts the liquid to our needs. The liquid lens would make focusing much faster by getting rid of a wide range of changes and calculations that are currently required.
We will only need a small voltage to modify the density of the liquid and the modification of the space to give the lens a different utility, which makes the result instantaneous and we do not have to depend on complex hardware.
The variability of the liquid lens in the Huawei P50 makes it possible for a single lens to work as several, so we would not need 5 cameras in a mobile to have the telephoto lens, main sensor, macro and wide angle. The liquid itself can be adapted to the needs and obtain the desired result by simply varying the space that this liquid occupies or the distribution that is made of it.
