{"id":3234,"date":"2019-06-15T10:28:12","date_gmt":"2019-06-15T10:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.citiusminds.com\/blog\/?p=3234"},"modified":"2021-02-09T09:33:21","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T15:33:21","slug":"the-in-display-camera-is-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.citiusminds.com\/blog\/the-in-display-camera-is-here\/","title":{"rendered":"The In-Display Camera is here."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We are living in a Smartphone dominated world. As more and\nmore people use smartphones for almost all of their needs, the competition among\nmanufacturers is getting tighter especially with the rise of several Chinese\ncompanies like Xiaomi, Oppo, Vivo, OnePlus, and Huawei. Companies are launching\nnew Flagships every few months to complement the fast growing technology and\nnew innovations. The latest in trend are smartphones with almost bezel less screens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The smartphone manufacturers have taken several different\napproaches to achieve the maximum screen-to-body ratio. It all started with Apple\nintroducing its Notch design in 2017. Although this implementation increased\nthe screen-to-body ratio and was adopted by almost all the other companies, there\nwas a widespread feeling that this is not the best solution. This led to a\nweird notch problem which everyone is trying to solve since then.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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(Source: Apple Inc.<\/a>) <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The Chinese smartphone makers like Oppo, Vivo and OnePlus\nlaunched several all-screen phones with no notches by adding pop-up cameras in\nseveral different form-factors. But as the sliding mechanism needs various\nmoving parts to function, the phones were neither water nor dust resistant and\nallegedly less durable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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(Source: www.vivo.com<\/a>) <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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(Source: www.oppo.com<\/a>) <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Although the pop-up camera implementation was accepted by\nmany, Samsung did not believe it to be a flagship solution. It introduced a\n\u201cHole-punch\u201d display camera to achieve a high screen-to-body ratio. In this\napproach, the selfie camera is placed under the protective glass and a hole is\ncut out on the display to push the screen to the absolute edges of the phone. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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(Source: Samsung<\/a>) <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Many technology enthusiasts believe that an elegant solution\nto this problem would be to hide the selfie camera under the display as has\nbeen already done with fingerprint sensors successfully. In October 2018, Samsung\nhad revealed that it was working on a display panel with an invisible camera,\nbut no product or working prototypes were ever released. However, on June 3rd<\/sup>,\nXiaomi followed by Oppo released videos of their own showcasing their\nsmartphones with cameras underneath the displays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Xiaomi has\ndisclosed their approach in a Chinese patent (CN208924293U<\/strong><\/a>)<\/strong> <\/strong>titled \u201cElectronic Equipment\u201d. The patent describes a method to achieve\nmaximum screen to body ratio of an\nelectronic equipment. The electronic equipment includes a minimum of one\nsensitization function part such as front camera, screen assembly including two\ndisplay parts. Second display part and the sensitization function are attached\nwith driving assembly below the first display and are arranged on the same\nsliding rail, which includes a motor to move along the sliding rail. The first\ndisplay part has a transmittance section which is rounded. The second display\npart also includes a circle for matching with the transmittance section shape.\nWhen second display part is matched with transmittance section via the sliding\nrail, the sensitization function part hides behind the first screen and vice\nversa, thus improving the screen coverage rate of electronic equipment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Is Apple also working on such a technology or does it have its own solution to this weird problem? It is as unclear as the use of in-display fingerprint sensors in the future IPhones. However, what is definitely clear is that the Chinese smartphone makers are hell-bent on innovating and creating the perfect all-screen smartphone that we all desire. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We are living in a Smartphone dominated world. As more and more people use smartphones for almost all of their needs, the competition among manufacturers is getting tighter especially with the rise of several Chinese companies like Xiaomi, Oppo, Vivo, OnePlus, and Huawei. Companies are launching new Flagships every few months to complement the fast […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[73,107,30,430,242,432,435,147,87],"class_list":["post-3234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-from-the-greatest","tag-apple","tag-iphone","tag-patent","tag-phones","tag-samsung","tag-smartphone","tag-smartphones","tag-technology","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.citiusminds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.citiusminds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.citiusminds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.citiusminds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.citiusminds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.citiusminds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.citiusminds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.citiusminds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.citiusminds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}