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Invisible Phone Cameras Are Here


Hey Guys, Welcome back to Interesting Intelligence! Do you think this tech will hit mainstream phones in 2019? 2020? Is the invisible camera cool? There are new under the display camera demos from Xiaomi and Oppo which are similar to the Samsung New Infinity display technology.




Some time ago we just got a look at the first under display camera that we've seen in a functional or seemingly functional prototype. This was a video put up by Oppo on their social media account but they have a front facing camera that is hidden under the display and then a few hours later, Xiaomi another Chinese company puts out a video with the same kind of technology and this video quality is a little bit better. They are showcasing a device which very much looks like Mi 9 but it also has a fully functioning, front-facing selfie camera.

 This is crazy! This is the technology that we've been seeking or the phone manufacturing world has been seeking for a little while now. We started off with the phone with the nodge. The iPhone had the nodge at first and then every Android phone started having a nodge. We are starting to get phones this year that don't have nodges but those aren't the final phones that we're looking for. We have pop-up cameras, flip-up camera and we have devices that are trying to circumvent the whole nodge and punch hole technology.
          Now from what I understand that they are turning off the pixels right in front of the camera sensors so on a regular OLED display its just a bunch of diodes that are being lit and when some particular diodes turn off what happens is that whatever is behind it now has a less obstructed line of sight.
         



So if you look at this picture from the Xiaomi video you can still see that the camera with this under the display sensor still has a camera visible on that prototype. It's subtle, but it's there. It's not as evident as the regular Mi 9 but it's definitely there. They've turned off the diodes in that region which allows the camera to be able to shoot through it but the problem is that that area that's been turned off is not optically transparent, it's translucent. We can obviously be able to see through it for some degree but it's not a super clean image and that's the problem all these manufacturers are facing right now. Anyone who is chasing this under display camera has to figure out how to clean that image because when you shoot through those diodes even if they're off, it's not clean and they are gonna need software or some kind of algorithm to clean that image as best as they can and maybe they can use 2 cameras so that you basically have two data points to work with and then they can combine that, I am not exactly sure about the techniques they can use for this.

Keep in mind that these guys aren't first, Samsung's been working on this since a long while. In 2018 they showed some slides and at the start of this year on how they are working. It's super interesting for me that these two Chinese companies came out of nowhere and showcase this technology in a fully functioning prototype.
 I am not someone who uses selfie cameras very often so many other people including me would be very willing to eat that crap image quality on the front-facing camera for that technology today.  But, they'll probably not do that, they want to get a front-facing image that's comparable to a regular selfie image.  Whoever does this first will be a banger because it resolves moving parts and having reduced water resistance ratings and stuff like that, having an under-display camera is a dream.
 
      That wraps this blog up. I think that this technology is cool. I am really glad that we are able to see something this early which was not expected. This was a neat idea which became functional. Obviously, there's a lot of work to be done but I like what I saw.


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