At this month's CES 2022, everyone is sparing no effort to "show muscle", and a variety of powerful chips and notebook new products are looking forward to it. However, in today's chip, screen, and even keyboard and trackpad are constantly iterating, the notebook's camera module seems to stop many years ago.
Nowadays, many people have become accustomed to the rich and powerful functions of mobile phone cameras, but many laptop cameras are even only 1 million pixels, and the picture that appears on the computer screen through such a lens is naturally not so clear.
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Not long ago, the vision system development company Immervision unveiled an 8 MP ultra-wide-angle lens and sensor combination, this new module combination thickness of only 3.8 mm, should be the world's thinnest laptop camera module today.
With Immervision's patented technology in the field of vision technology, this module enables higher image clarity and provides a high-quality solution for higher resolutions, wider field of view and more advanced distortion control.
According to Patrice Roulet Fontani, co-founder and vice president of technology at Immervision, the company has been able to maximize field of view and image quality in a few millimeters of space in modern devices through collaboration with OEMs, and this camera module can be combined with Immervision's wide-angle distortion correction and de-distortion algorithm, plus face and body protection algorithms, to bring unprecedented, novel, Fresh video calling experience.
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In the years of continuous update and iteration of notebook computers, the performance of the camera is somewhat "incompatible" with other devices, not that the notebook manufacturer ignores this function, but the trade-off that is helpless to make when creating the product.
As a productivity tool, in addition to the notebook to have powerful functions, but also in the pursuit of thin and portable, choose a low-pixel camera, one of the reasons is that the user's needs in this area are not so urgent. For many people, the main function of the camera on the laptop is a small number of video calls, and if a higher quality picture is required, an external device is usually chosen.
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In addition to the needs of users, the thickness of the camera module is also a "barrier" that cannot be ignored. If you want the camera to have higher performance, it usually means a larger volume, but the thin enough notebook A side and a good enough camera can not always be combined.
However, the changes in people's office and lifestyle in recent years mean that the camera of the laptop has more "place to play", which means that the manufacturer's previous configuration plan must be changed. With Immervision's slim laptop camera module, high-quality images and thinness can be combined.
Of course, the new product cycle of notebook computers is always difficult to synchronize with changes in user needs and solution updates, but presumably in the near future, people will be able to see themselves more clearly on the screen through the notebook camera.
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