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We were announcing it a few days ago and today it finally becomes official. Oppo, the company in charge of Vivo, OnePlus and Realme has announced its new camera technology that allows the sensor to be placed just below the screen, finally presenting the natural evolution of the notch or notch. The operation of the new technology, as detailed by Oppo during the Mobile World Congress in Shanghai in China, is very similar to that of current on-screen fingerprint sensors. The bad news is that for now we will have to wait until 2020 to see mobiles with the aforementioned technology implemented.
On-screen camera: this is the natural evolution of the Oppo hand notch
After the company released a promotional video showing its new achievement a few weeks ago, we finally have among us the first mobile with an under-screen camera, or rather, the first prototype. And it is that although the company has not given details of its real implementation in a smartphone, it has clarified that "it will arrive in the very near future. "
Regarding the operation of the new technology, the company has given details about the redesign of the matrix of pixels that the new technology needs to let the light pass to the camera sensor located just below the panel.
Like current fingerprint sensors, the matrix must have dark colors to let the photons pass, which will later be transformed into a digital image. This is the reason why its compatibility will be limited exclusively to mobiles with OLED screens.
Another detail that the brand has clarified is that, for the moment, the results in photography are still of low quality due to the nature of the technology. At the end of the day, the company has to make a series of adjustments through an algorithm that compensates for the lack of brightness of the sensor and the overexposure of the camera on the screen matrix. In the words of the brand, "the algorithm that removes the haze from the image is being developed together to combat the problem of having a solid material on the surface of the lens and eliminating the bumps that the final photograph may have.
