Sports While Watching, Apple Watch Will Have A New Camera

Apple has recently been adding more capabilities to the Apple Watch. (photo: Sabina / Unsplash)

JAKARTA - Apple has recently continued to add more capabilities to the Apple Watch. But, it's mostly related to health and this time a patent leaked, he will add a camera to his smartwatch.

It's been a while since the talk of camera sensors being added to the Apple Watch has been a hot topic, which would be a big step forward for the company if it actually happened.

According to reports, the smartwatch will have a camera where users can remove their Apple Watch from the wrist and then use it to take photos.

Of course the design had to change for this to work, given that the Apple Watch currently locks when the user removes it from their wrist. The patent appears to indicate that the camera sensor could fit inside the Digital Crown.

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"Watches (A) may include rotatable buttons, such as a rotatable crown used for digital input," Apple Insider said.

"A camera can be included in the assembly to allow images to be captured through an aperture that extends through the dial."

Later, Apple will turn the watch face into a viewfinder, and the camera flash can be multi-purpose for optical heart rate monitoring or other physiological sensing applications when the watch is worn on the wrist.

Meanwhile, the patent proposal also says, "A lens can be integrated within the aperture and/or behind the dial opening to focus the landscape image," he said.

"The image sensor located behind the aperture can be further configured to detect movement of the markings on the dial to allow the image sensor to function both as a camera to capture images of the scene, and as a sensor detecting the rotation of the dial to sense rotational input."

Unfortunately, nothing is mentioned in the patent about how users can take photos if the Digital Crown houses the camera sensor, and there are no further details about the camera sensor itself, but it's certainly an interesting idea that isn't set to launch any time soon.