ZTE recently released a new technology. This black technology is unique to ZTE. What is unexpected is that even Huawei and Apple have not done it yet. This time ZTE is once again ahead of Apple and Huawei. In recent years, with the large-scale development of the smartphone industry, the mobile phone market has undergone earth-shaking changes. When everyone talks about mobile phones, the first brands that come to mind are Apple, Huawei, Xiaomi, and Samsung, and ZTE is rarely mentioned. In fact, ZTE also has mobile phone products, but they don't feel very mainstream. Most people think that its strength is still in communication equipment.
ZTE’s main business is also communications, and its business scope involves mobile phone chips, operating system technology, etc. Moreover, ZTE ranks third in the world in terms of the number of 5G patented technologies it possesses. ZTE became the target of US action one year earlier than Huawei. After being certified by the United States, it can be seen that ZTE is not strong enough. The bubble created in the early mobile Internet era has basically burst. In the global market, only Apple, Samsung, Huawei, Xiaomi, Oppo, and Vivo have firmly occupied the global mainstream market.
In order to avoid going downhill, 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 trying their best to innovate, objectively speaking, Apple and Huawei's innovation capabilities are still at the forefront of the mobile phone market. Any new technology developed by Huawei and Apple mobile phones will generally be followed by other friendly companies.
With the development of smart phones, the performance of mobile phones is getting stronger and stronger. For example, in terms of taking pictures, consumers use mobile phones to take pictures very frequently, and high-pixel mobile phones are also the first choice of consumers. . Nowadays, mobile phones often have tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of pixels. In order to meet the selfie function, many mobile phones have front cameras, but its existence brings certain problems to the mobile phone screen.
Because the front camera needs to occupy a certain amount of space on the mobile phone screen, however, as mobile phone functions become more and more powerful, people have begun to have higher and higher requirements for the screen ratio of mobile phones. Apple founder Steve Jobs launched the first Generation capacitive screen, iPhone officially opened our era of large-screen mobile phones, and the notch screen launched by Apple also made friends realize that a higher screen-to-body ratio will give users a better experience.
The so-called notch actually refers to a space set aside on the mobile phone screen, which looks like a human bang. Since Apple mobile phones are equipped with the hardware required for front-facing facial recognition, they had to design large bangs for the mobile phones. It is precisely because of the existence of these hardware that the notch screen models subsequently released by iPhone X realized 3D face recognition. However, Apple mobile phones are not perfect. The notch screen not only limits the field of vision of mobile phone users, but also blocks some key information in many software and games.
Later, water drop screen and other types of mobile phone screens appeared. The water drop screen refers to a camera position left at the top end of the mobile phone screen, which looks like a drop of water. The water drop screen is closer to a full screen than the notch screen. Many mainstream mobile phones currently have such a design. However, whether it is a water drop screen or a notch screen, a part of the screen is cut off, resulting in an incomplete real-life picture.
Consumers are increasingly pursuing full screens. However, it is not easy to achieve a full screen. This involves design issues, such as drilling holes in the glass of the mobile phone screen and making it beautiful. . The ultimate form of a full screen is a 100% full-view screen on the front, which can also support 3D face unlocking, that is, 3D structured light under the screen. This is the technology that Apple has been working hard to achieve in the past few years.
Because of this, the under-screen camera solution has attracted much attention in the industry. However, in this field, our country is currently at the forefront of the world.
my country's BOE mobile phone screen supplier has applied for a patent for its under-screen camera technology in early 2020, and OLED screen supplier Visionox also released an under-screen camera solution in June 2020 Bill, these all show that our country's companies have been working hard to research and develop under-screen camera technology.
Moreover, ZTE made a breakthrough in this area in 2020 and developed under-screen camera technology. This technology is under-screen 3D structured light technology. So what is 3D structured light technology? In layman's terms, it uses a camera to project countless rays of light onto an identified object, and uses a point-to-face algorithm to form a three-dimensional image, which can identify objects more accurately.
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And this technology can be used in multiple application scenarios such as high-security face recognition, beauty selfies, augmented reality AR and even 3D printing, so that you can The camera is truly hidden under the screen, and at the same time, it can also give users a 100% complete screen display, achieving a true full-screen display.
Presumably even Cook himself did not expect that Apple would be preempted by ZTE in the development process of under-screen camera technology. Once the under-screen camera technology matures, Apple's notch screen design will be eliminated. In September 2020, ZTE released the Axon20, the world's first truly under-screen camera phone. However, this phone is not perfect yet, mainly because the front camera does not take pictures well.
However, this mobile phone is the world’s first mass-produced mobile phone with an under-screen camera solution. However, ZTE is pursuing the victory and announced good news again after a few months. This time it not only upgraded and optimized the under-screen camera technology, but also will soon launch the Axon 30, a mobile phone equipped with new technology. The newly launched second-generation under-screen camera technology solves the problem of the first generation. It also has the functions of 3D face recognition and live body detection, which can overcome the optical loss caused by the screen to a certain extent.
And under the strong outdoor light of 100,000 lux, it can also Able to achieve complete 3D reconstruction. The depth information of the human face can be obtained through laser dot matrix, the 2D information of the human face can be obtained through infrared rays, and the human face can be generated through the 3D reconstruction algorithm. 3D modeling is more secure than 2D facial unlocking solutions, reaching the security level of mobile payments, and can prevent prosthetics from cracking mobile phones. It can be said that 3D structured light technology is currently the most secure biometric technology.
Because of this, it requires the support of many sensors, which is why Apple has not been able to get rid of the notch screen. ZTE’s new technology has successfully placed 3D structured light technology under the screen, which may bring a new trend to the mobile phone market. In these technical fields, ZTE is moving faster than Apple and Huawei. It can also be said that in terms of under-screen camera technology, ZTE is currently ranked first in the world.
After ZTE bowed its head and paid a huge fine to the United States, many netizens scolded ZTE for being spineless. However, ZTE never defended itself, quietly did its best, and rested in a low-key manner. He devotes himself to the research and development of new technologies and contributes to the development of science and technology in our country. Our current 5G can develop so fast. In addition to Huawei's contribution, ZTE has also made great efforts.
However, Apple will not be willing to lag behind. Relevant news shows that Apple recently applied for a patent for a photodetector integrated into a thin film transistor backplane. This means that Apple is also developing under-screen sensors. Technology, the camera, depth sensor, biometric sensor, etc. are placed under the screen, thereby terminating the notch-less mobile phone screen effect and achieving a full screen. In any case, our country is currently at the forefront of the world in terms of under-screen camera technology.
Innovation is the number one growth force of technology products. In the long process of development, domestic mobile phones have begun to surpass them in innovation. I believe that in the near future, more mobile phone brands will make better products. Be more innovative.
In recent years, Huawei's smartphone business has been nearly wiped out due to the impact of U.S. sanctions. Fortunately, with the development of domestic semiconductors, Huawei's smartphone business is also showing signs of recovery.
However, judging from ZTE’s breakthrough in under-screen 3D structured light technology, even if Huawei’s smartphone business collapses, there will still be thousands of “Huaweis” standing up in China. Although ZTE's mobile phone sales are not as good as Apple's, its determination to explore technology is no less than Apple's. What do you think of the new breakthroughs brought by ZTE?