APPLE has secured a patent for a smartwatch with a camera that will allow wearers to easily snap photos from their wrists.
In a move to enhance its already high-tech smartwatch, Apple patented a design with a camera on February 7.
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What will it look like?
According to graphics from the patent document, the camera would be located on the bottom of the watch.
However, users wouldn't need to take the device off to use the camera as both the wristband's top and the watch would be detachable.
This new technology would allow the wearer to easily remove both components, quickly take a photo, and then snap the watch back together.
"The camera includes an image sensor disposed behind the bottom cover of the housing relative to a field of view of the camera and the scene to be captured," the patent reads.
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It continued: "The camera has a FOV pointing out the bottom side of the housing so that pictures of a scene may be taken when the housing is removed from the wrist."
Another potential design is a camera or sensor in or on a crown, a button, the top side of the housing, or the sidewall.
This is not the first time Apple has submitted a patent application for a watch with a camera.
In 2019, another patent was requested by the tech giant that proposed a different design.
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That design would have placed the camera on the end of the watch's band.
According to Patently Apple, around 40 other patents were awarded to the Cupertino-based company last week.
One patent explored the idea of next-generation haptics that could replace physical buttons on apple devices.
However, just because Apple receives patents for certain designs, it does not mean they will come to fruition.
Apple launched its latest smartwatch, the Apple Watch Series 8, in September 2022.
The first-generation Apple Watch was originally unveiled in 2015.
