On December 15, Huawei officially released the new product warm-up information, and before that, there was news that "Huawei's new laptop will support ultrasonic control." This news really makes the reporter have a lot of expectations for Huawei's new products.
The public's most intuitive understanding of ultrasonic technology is mainly concentrated in the application of radar or medical instruments, which generally belongs to the category of high-tech, will a notebook computer commonly used by consumers use such high-end technology? And how will it be applied? This aroused the curiosity of reporters.
Defined from the technical field, ultrasonic wave is a mechanical wave with a very short wavelength, and the wavelength in air is generally shorter than 2 cm (cm). It must rely on the medium for propagation, produce reflections, interferences and superpositions, and is anisotropic. Based on its characteristics, ultrasonic waves can be used as a carrier or medium for detecting and loading information; ultrasonic waves are also a form of energy, when their intensity exceeds a certain value, it can be affected, changed and destroyed by the interaction with the media propagating ultrasonic waves, which can be used for cleaning, gravel, sterilization and disinfection. There are many applications in medicine and industry.
Although, the warm-up poster did not reveal more information, but from the new laptop will support ultrasonic control of this information to analyze, ultrasonic control means that it is the ability to remotely control, with reference to Huawei mobile phone products from the Mate 30 series that began to have a space control function, but this function on the phone is the use of camera to collect information, through the AI processing ability to identify specific gestures, trigger the corresponding operation mechanism, and then realize the air control of the phone.
Based on this, we may wish to boldly guess that the principle of ultrasonic control should be similar, the computer emits ultrasonic waves to encounter the user's specific gestures, return to the sound waves, and then through the processor's processing of sound wave information, restore the user gestures, trigger the corresponding operations and then achieve remote control functions.
At that time, after Huawei's mobile phone first introduced the air control function, there was also some discussion about whether this function was practical. In general use cases, this function may not bring obvious perception, but in some specific scenarios, people need mobile phones to provide information while it is inconvenient to operate mobile phones, and this function becomes extremely useful. For example, for people who learn to cook, when he learns to make dishes according to the instructional video, he needs to pause the cooking operation after playing a paragraph, and after the operation is completed, he returns to continue playing and learning, at this time, he often can't free his hands to control the playback and pause, and at this time, a gesture can easily solve this problem.
Based on the user pain point insight of this type of scene, the application scenario of ultrasonic control of Huawei laptop should also be similar, although the computer side will not often involve such use scenarios as learning to cook, but in the conference scene need to control PPT playback, or in the leisure and entertainment scene need to control the playback of audio and video, the same can be performed similar operations. Moreover, in the case of low light, the air operation function of the mobile phone based on visual recognition cannot be used, but the ultrasonic wave is not limited by the ambient lighting and can be used at any time.
At present, ultrasonic technology is mostly used in the field of high-tech production, if applied to consumer-grade products, the early technical cost is also relatively high, theoretically should be the first to be applied in huawei notebook flagship products, it is not difficult to speculate that Huawei's notebook product line this year has not been updated the product is only Huawei MateBook X Pro series, so the latest notebook product to be released, there is a high probability that the new Huawei MateBook X Pro.
As the top flagship product in Huawei's notebook product series, Huawei MateBook X Pro has always been the best of the best in hardware configuration, with powerful performance, coupled with unique ultrasonic control functions, which will surely make this laptop fully upgraded in hardware configuration and software experience.