On April 12, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office officially granted Apple a patent that eliminated the iPhone's bangs and placed the original deep-feeling camera module under the phone's display. Apple's new patent has been granted, which makes us hopeful for a true full-screen iPhone.
From the published patent diagram, we can see the difference between the effect of Face ID under the screen and the current liu hai screen, and the working principle of this technology, with components such as the front camera, Tof, and dot matrix projector hidden under the display. Apple pointed out in the patent that all the front components are below the screen, but the distance between each component and the display is not the same.
Apple iPhone's screen Face ID has always been the user's heart but can not achieve the function, from the current revelations, the iPhone 14 Pro / Pro Max released this year only canceled the ancestral Bangs Screen, replaced by the "exclamation point" digging design, the screen ratio has been further improved, but the digging area is not small, it is said that its diameter reached 5.6 mm, much larger than the Android machine digging hole.
Tianfeng International analyst Guo Mingji recently said that the face ID under the screen will appear in the 2024 iPhone 16 series, and this point in time release is more like for marketing purposes than technical issues. However, for the face ID under the screen, Guo Mingxi is only guessing, and when to mass produce depends on Apple's mood.
The Android camp, which strides towards the real full screen, has recently received almost no news about the camera type except for the Motorola Edge X30 screen downscreen. Xiao Lei believes that it is likely that the development of under-screen camera technology has encountered a bottleneck and cannot be further broken through in a time.
The biggest problem facing under-screen camera today is still unable to take into account high resolution, most of the models equipped with under-screen camera, the screen is basically 1080P, considering the display effect of the area under the screen, it is not possible to do such a resolution of 2K for the time being.
In addition, with the current technology, the display brightness of the area under the screen is also difficult to be equal to other parts of the display, and the screen effect still exists, most users should not like to remove the digging holes, compromise the display quality of the screen, after all, the display screen is the most frequently used part of the mobile phone.
On the other hand, the under-screen camera technology is not yet fully mature, the production cost is not very low, manufacturers will rarely apply it to high-end flagships or delegated to cheaper models, in order to ensure the display effect, the mainstream full screen form is still digging holes.
For Apple, the priority of the display effect is definitely higher than the true full-screen form, perhaps until the face ID technology under the screen that can take into account the display and form, the real full-screen era is not far from us.