Oppo Unveils Third Attempt At Under-Screen Front-Facing Camera Tech

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Apple next year is expected to ditch the iPhone notch and adopt a punch-hole design for its front-facing TrueDepth camera array. Meanwhile, Android maker Oppo continues to publicize new iterations of its under-screen camera technology, which it has yet to feature in a shipped phone.

Prototype device featuring Oppo’s USC

Oppo unveiled its first go at under-screen camera tech back in June 2019, and this is its third attempt at refining the system. According to the Chinese phone maker, the new version allows for a selfie camera to be placed under the display “without compromising the integrity of the screen.”

In previous iterations, Oppo improved the camera quality at the expense of the display, by reducing the pixel density in the area of the screen that covers the camera in order to let more light in.

This time, it’s taken a different tack, by shrinking the size of each pixel without decreasing the number of pixels “to ensure a 400-ppi high-quality display even in the camera area.” It’s also replaced the traditional screen wiring with transparent wiring material.

A prototype device featuring OPPO’s USC

As a result, Oppo says users should notice “almost no visual difference” between the portion of the screen where the camera resides and the rest of the display, and to back up that claim, it has released an image of a prototype phone showing a black-and-white ebook app filling up the screen.

The company has also publicized a sample photo taken by the under-screen camera, although without several shots taken in different conditions, it’s hard to judge its capabilities, and Oppo is still falling back on imaging AI algorithms to reduce some of the negative side effects typically found in under-screen cameras, such as blurry

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