Apple receives patent for Apple Watch with built-in camera

The new patent describes an Apple Watch with a built-in camera. Its location is very unusual.

If you’re still looking forward to the Cupertino-based company launching an Apple Watch with a built-in camera, here’s something you might be interested in. Indeed, a patent filed by Apple last week describes a smartwatch with a camera on the underside of the device. While at first glance this might seem like the worst place to put such a component, since it’s aimed straight at your wrist, the patent describes a system that would make it practical in certain scenarios.

New patent describes Apple Watch with built-in camera

The trick is in the bracelet. It will have two segments: the upper one – with the clock itself – will be easily separated from the lower one. So if you want to take a picture with your Apple Watch, you can easily detach it from your wrist, point at what you want to capture, take the picture, and reattach the back of the watch to the band.

It might even sound pretty funny, until you remember that taking photos with a smartphone is probably much more convenient in almost all cases, except maybe when you don’t have your phone with you.

Its location is rather unconventional.

This is not the first Apple patent describing a smartwatch with a built-in camera. Another, from 2022, offered a more traditional placement of this module, just in the crown.

However, these two patents were filed in 2019. Therefore, there is a high probability that the Apple brand decided not to develop this idea.

Patently Apple, which monitors patents related to the Apple ecosystem on a daily basis, says that at least 39 more patents have been granted to Apple in the past week, including a document describing next-generation haptic feedback that can be used to replace Apple’s physical buttons. brand devices.