Oppo shows off its under-screen selfie camera, a world first

[midian182]

What just happened? After posting a video of its in-display selfie camera earlier this month, Oppo has now revealed more of the technology, which it calls Under-Screen Camera (USC), at MWC Shanghai.

Few people are fans of phones with notches or hole-punch cutouts, leading to smartphone makers looking at ways of removing obtrusive elements from the display while retaining a high screen-to-body ratio. One method of doing this is to place the selfie cam beneath the screen, in the same way fingerprint readers have made their way under displays in recent times.

The start of June saw both Xiaomi and Oppo show off clips of their earlier in-display selfie cams, and while neither company revealed how the tech worked, Oppo has now given out more details.

A small screen area sitting above the camera uses a custom, highly transparent material along with a redesigned pixel structure that allows light to get through to the camera. The actual camera unit itself uses a larger sensor with bigger pixels and a wider aperture to capture more light.

OPPO's brand new solution for full-screen display - Under-screen Camera (USC) has just been unveiled here at #MWC19 Shanghai! #MoreThanTheSeen pic.twitter.com/k5qEQ3QNta

— OPPO India (@oppomobileindia) June 26, 2019

Engadget Chinese writes that it in certain conditions, it is possible to see a pixelated area of the screen where the camera resides. It adds that resolution, clarity, and color accuracy all suffer at the expense of the camera being under the screen.

Oppo says its algorithms are in place to help correct issues such as glare and haze, and claims the quality is “on par with mainstream devices.”

The first commercial Oppo device with USC tech is set to arrive “in the near future.” We’ll just have to wait until then before deciding if this really is the next step in smartphone design.

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[p51d007]

"Few people are fans of phones with notches or hole-punch cutouts"
Not me....bezels don't bother me one bit, never have. But, the "fashion police"
(ie manufacturers) have CONVINCED people, (ie:menions) that slim, sexy,
stylish, colorful & fashionable are what people "want". People are "CONVINCED"
this is what they want, all the while, does it really matter? No.
It wasn't until manufacturers started making displays with small or no bezels, they
pushed this, in an effort to drive sales. It's mostly marketing, and, people continue to
fall for it, the same way as they fall for more megapixels, brighter displays, faster processors.
Hey, it's YOUR money....but I prefer a small amount of bezel, simply from the fact if you are
trying to copy/paste from the VERY EDGE of the screen, it sometimes can be a pain ticking
that edge.

 

[yRaz]

Well as long as the display is transparent when taking a selfie then the display should out of focus much in the same way a Newtonian telescopes secondary mirror is out of focus.

 

[Eldritch]

"Few people are fans of phones with notches or hole-punch cutouts"
Not me....bezels don't bother me one bit, never have. But, the "fashion police"
(ie manufacturers) have CONVINCED people, (ie:menions) that slim, sexy,
stylish, colorful & fashionable are what people "want". People are "CONVINCED"
this is what they want, all the while, does it really matter? No.
It wasn't until manufacturers started making displays with small or no bezels, they
pushed this, in an effort to drive sales. It's mostly marketing, and, people continue to
fall for it, the same way as they fall for more megapixels, brighter displays, faster processors.
Hey, it's YOUR money....but I prefer a small amount of bezel, simply from the fact if you are
trying to copy/paste from the VERY EDGE of the screen, it sometimes can be a pain ticking
that edge.

What???? Don't you love random touches at the edge of the screen caused by merely having the the phone in your hand.

 

[QuantumPhysics]

The Face ID camera notch on my iPhone XS MAX 512GB is irrelevant.

I can still watch videos full screen and still enjoy them just fine.

It will be nice to see technology figure out a way to engineer out the notch, but till then, it's NOT a deal killer.

My question is, when they do figure out a way to have a facetime camera that works through a display, which is going to suffer more: image quality of the camera or of the display?

 

[captaincranky]

The world needs this why?

(I mean other than to give the techno junkies here something to opine about).

 

[PurpleYoda]

Blah, just remove the selfie camera altogether and place a mirror at the back of your phone and voila, you have a high def selfie camera just flip the phone around and off you go!