ZTE's main business is also communication, and its business scope involves mobile phone chips and operating system technology. Moreover, ZTE's 5 G patented technology ranks third in the world. ZTE became the action target of the United States one year earlier than Huawei. After American certification, it can be seen that ZTE's strength is insufficient, and the bubble generated in the early mobile Internet era has basically burst. In the global market, only Apple, Samsung, Huawei, Xiaomi, oppo and vivo firmly occupy the global mainstream market.
In order to avoid going downhill, all major mobile phone brands want to further enhance their brand competitiveness, and maintaining innovation is an effective way to enhance their brand competitiveness. Although major brands are striving to innovate, objectively speaking, Apple and Huawei are still at the forefront of the mobile phone market. What new technologies Huawei and Apple have developed will generally be imitated by other friends.
With the development of smart phones, the performance of mobile phones is getting stronger and stronger. In terms of taking photos, consumers use mobile phones to take photos frequently, and high-pixel mobile phones are also consumers' first choice. At present, mobile phones have tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of pixels. In order to meet the self-timer function, many mobile phones have a front camera, but its existence brings some difficulties to the screen of the mobile phone.
Because the front camera needs to occupy a certain space on the screen of the mobile phone, with the increasingly powerful function of the mobile phone, people have higher and higher requirements for the proportion of the screen of the mobile phone. Steve Jobs, the founder of Apple, launched the first generation of capacitive screen, and the iphone officially opened our era of big-screen mobile phones. Apple's Liu Haiping also made friends realize that a higher screen ratio would make the user experience better.
The so-called Liu Haiping, in fact, is a space left on the screen of the mobile phone, which looks like a human bangs. Because Apple's mobile phone is equipped with the hardware needed for frontal face recognition, it has to design a big bangs for the mobile phone. It is precisely because of these hardware that the Liu Haiping model released by iphone X has realized 3 D face recognition. However, Apple phones are not perfect. Liu Haiping not only limits the vision of mobile phone users, but also blocks some key information in many software and games.
Later, some types of mobile phone screens appeared, such as water drop screens. Droplet screen refers to the position where there is a camera at the top of the mobile phone screen, which looks like a drop of water. Compared with Liu Haiping, the water drop screen is closer to full screen. At present, many mainstream mobile phones are designed in this way. However, both the water drop screen and the Liu Haiping are cut off from the screen, which leads to the phenomenon that the real picture is incomplete.
Consumers are more and more inclined to pursue full screen, but it is not so easy to achieve full screen, which involves design problems, such as punching holes in the glass of mobile phone screen, which is beautiful. The ultimate form of full-screen is the front 100% full-view screen, and it can also support 3 D face unlocking, that is, 3 D structured light under the screen, which is exactly the technology that Apple has been trying to achieve in recent years.
For this reason, the scheme of off-screen camera has attracted much attention in the industry. However, in this field, China is currently at the forefront of the world. China's BOE mobile phone screen supplier has applied for the patent of its off-screen camera technology in early 2020, and oled screen supplier Visionox also issued the off-screen camera solution bill in June 2020, which shows that China enterprises have been making efforts to research and develop off-screen camera technology.
Moreover, ZTE made a breakthrough in this field in 2020, and developed the off-screen camera technology, which is the off-screen 3D structured light technology. So what is 3D structured light technology? In layman's terms, it is to project countless rays onto the identified object through the camera, and form a three-dimensional image by using the point-to-point algorithm, which can identify the object more accurately.
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And this technology can be applied to many application scenarios such as high-security face recognition, beauty selfie, augmented reality AR and even 3D printing, so that the camera can be really hidden under the screen, and at the same time, it can give the user 100% complete screen display, realizing a real full screen.
Presumably, even Cook himself did not think that in the process of developing the camera technology under the screen, Apple would be defeated by ZTE. Once the technology of off-screen camera is mature, Apple's Liu Haiping design will be eliminated. In September 2020, ZTE released the world's first off-screen camera phone Axon20, but this phone is not perfect, mainly because the front camera is not effective.
However, this phone is the world's first mass-produced off-screen camera solution. However, ZTE is pursuing victory and announced good news a few months later. This time, it not only upgraded and optimized the off-screen camera technology, but also will soon launch the mobile phone Axon 30 equipped with new technology. The newly launched second-generation off-screen camera technology has solved various problems of a generation, and also has 3 D face recognition and live detection functions, which can overcome the optical loss caused by the screen to some extent.
And under the outdoor strong light of100000 l u x, a complete 3 D reconstruction can be realized. The depth information of human face is obtained by laser dot matrix, the two-dimensional information of human face is obtained by infrared ray, and then the adult face is generated by three-dimensional reconstruction algorithm. 3 D modeling is safer than 2 D facial unlocking scheme, reaching the security level of mobile payment, which can prevent prosthesis from cracking mobile phone It can be said that 3 D structured light technology is the safest biometric technology at present.
Because of this, it needs the support of many sensors, which is why Apple can't get rid of Liu Haiping. And ZTE's new technology successfully puts 3 D structured light technology under the screen, which may bring new trends to the mobile phone market. In these technical fields, ZTE is faster than Apple and Huawei. It can also be said that ZTE has achieved the first place in the world in the technology of taking pictures under the screen.
Before ZTE bowed its head and paid a huge fine to the United States, many netizens called ZTE spineless, but ZTE never excused itself, silently did its own thing and kept a low profile. He devoted himself to the research and development of new technologies and contributed to the development of science and technology in China. Our current 5 G can develop so fast. In addition to Huawei, ZTE has also made great efforts.
However, Apple will not be satisfied with backwardness. According to related news, Apple recently applied for a patent for a photodetector integrated in the back panel of a thin film transistor. In other words, Apple is also developing the technology of off-screen sensors, placing cameras, depth sensors, biometric sensors and so on. At the bottom of the screen, thus ending the screen effect of the mobile phone without bangs and realizing a full screen. Anyway, at present, China is at the forefront of the world in the technology of taking pictures under screen.
Innovation is the first growth force of scientific and technological products. In the long process of development, domestic mobile phones have begun to surpass in innovation. I believe that more mobile phone brands will make more innovations in the near future. In recent years, Huawei's smartphone business has been hit by US sanctions. Fortunately, with the development of domestic semiconductors, Huawei's smartphone business has also shown signs of revival.
However, judging from ZTE's breakthrough in off-screen 3 D structured light technology, even if Huawei's smartphone business collapses, there will still be thousands of "Huawei" in Qian Qian, China. Although ZTE's mobile phone sales are not as good as that of Apple, its determination to explore technology is no less than that of Apple. How to treat the new breakthrough brought by ZTE?