Display-covered camera
AssigneeLenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
InventorsJohn Weldon Nicholson, Howard Locker, Daryl Cromer
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Abstract
One embodiment provides a method, including: receiving, at an information handling device having a display, an indication to capture an image of a scene using a camera sensor positioned underneath the display; capturing, responsive to the receiving, a plurality of partial images of the scene, wherein the capturing comprises adjusting, using an adjustment mechanism, a physical position of the camera sensor after each of the plurality of partial images of the scene are captured; and stitching, subsequent to the capturing, the plurality of partial images together to form the image of the scene. Other aspects are described and claimed.
Claims19
A method, comprising:
- receiving, at an information handling device having a display, an indication to capture an image of a scene using a camera sensor positioned underneath the display;
- capturing, responsive to the receiving, a plurality of partial images of the scene, wherein the capturing comprises adjusting, using an adjustment mechanism, a physical position of the camera sensor after each of the plurality of partial images of the scene are captured;
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- stitching, subsequent to the capturing, the plurality of partial images together to form the image of the scene.
An information handling device, comprising:
- a display;
- a camera sensor positioned underneath the display;
- an adjustment mechanism operatively coupled to the camera sensor;
- a processor;
- a memory device that stores instructions executable by the processor to:
- receive an indication to capture an image of a scene using the camera sensor;
- capture, responsive to the receiving, a plurality of partial images of the scene, wherein the capturing comprises adjusting, using the adjustment mechanism, a physical position of the camera sensor after each of the plurality of partial images of the scene are captured;
- and
- stitch, subsequent to the capturing, the plurality of partial images together to form the image of the scene.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.