Since 2020, the blue factory has focused on imaging in the direction of research and development, and the cooperation with Zeiss can add wings to the tiger.
Looking back on the entire Blue Factory Imaging, it can be said that it is the whole process, that is, the self-developed chip & algorithm deep learning + in-depth cooperation with Zeiss Imaging, after the test of the market, it is more and more handy.
History
1. Difficult start
I remember that on May 7, 2014, vivo released vivo Xshot at the Water Cube in Beijing, which is believed to be the first time that many people have a deep impression of vivo's models. In addition to the excellent process design, this mobile phone fired vivo's first shot in imaging, becoming the first smartphone in China to adopt F1.8 large aperture + OIS optical image stabilization, and it is also the first model in China to be equipped with a front flash.
How many people still remember the advertising slogan,"The backlight is also clear,Illuminate your beauty"vivo X20、X21 and other models,This model is equipped with an independently customized DSP chip,Super HDRThe effect successfully played a differentiated performance in the mobile phone circle at that time,The advantage of the algorithm makes this model draw a strong stroke in the history of vivo image development。
2. Grope forward
As early as 2018, the vivo X23 series was the first to be equipped with an ultra-wide-angle lens in China, which caused the popularity of this trend, and then was followed up by major manufacturers.
The X30 series is the first model of vivo to achieve full focal length coverage, of which vivo X30 Pro is equipped with four lenses: ultra-wide-angle, wide-angle, portrait and telephoto lens, and the periscope telephoto supports up to 60x super zoom, and supports the super moon mode, which was very popular at that time.
3. The road of self-research + international cooperation
vivo X50 series is the product line of vivo to show off black technology, at this time, short videos are very popular, users have a greater demand for video recording, and at the same time, the night scene mode of mobile phones has also become the focus of major manufacturers. With the blessing of the micro gimbal, the vivo X50 series has better shooting stability, thus achieving breakthroughs in video recording and night scene shooting.
The strong alliance between vivo and Zeiss makes the vivo X60 series full of selling points, with the blessing of the second-generation micro gimbal, Zeiss optical lens, Zeiss T* coating, etc., making the position of the imaging flagship more stable. At the same time, vivo also simulates the classic ZEISS Biotar classic lens imaging, combined with ZEISS's color tuning, to present a unique portrait photo.
4, Thanos image
After the timely precipitation and accumulation of X70, X80 and X90 generations, the blue factory released X100U in May this year, from X70's self-developed V1 image chip to X100U's V3+ image chip, it can be described as a step by step.
The rear camera module of the vivo X100 Ultra uses a one-inch main camera with a Sony LYT900 sensor with a pixel count of 50 million pixels, an aperture value of f/1.75, and optical image stabilization. In addition to the main camera with a large outsole, the vivo X100 Ultra is also equipped with an optical lens group jointly developed with Zeiss.
The main camera of vivo X100 Ultra uses ultra-low dispersion and high transparency glass lenses to form a 1G+7P lens module, which is assembled with high precision with AOA miniaturization stacking process, so that the lens module and the 1-inch sensor are perfectly adapted, achieving a large aperture of f/1.75, improving purple edges, and making night scenes more transparent.
The vivo X100 Ultra continues to use the highest level of lens coating, continuing to use the newly upgraded ZEISS T* coating. The new lens coating adopts ALC sub-wavelength bionic structure plating, double low-reflection AR/SWC ultra-low reflective coating, which improves light transmittance and improves the ghosting caused by light refraction between the lens and the sensor. At the same time, through the IRCF pigment spin coating process, the light reflection and the formation of flare and petals are inhibited, and the ghost shadow of the night scene is weakened.
In terms of imaging computing power, in addition to relying on the powerful computing power of the flagship mobile phone SoC, vivo X100 Ultra also has a built-in self-developed chip V3+. The chip adopts the AI-ISP architecture, empowers the ISP chip with AI accelerators, introduces the AI real-time processing and computing architecture on the basis of low latency and high energy efficiency, enhances the information processing capability with a distributed mesh computing structure, realizes divergent information processing and storage, and greatly improves the efficiency of processing and storage.
Sample analysis
Moreover, the vivo X100 Ultra's one-inch outsole main camera can accurately restore the details of the scene with the help of the ZEISS Natural Color 2.0 function, and bring photos with a near-natural look. This mode fine-tunes the camera imaging saturation with white balance, brightness and shadow tone to achieve a natural and soft picture effect, highlighting the color layering, and has a more accurate performance in scenes and items that require high color accuracy, such as food, flowers, building materials, and color swatches.
In terms of night scene shooting, vivo X100 Ultra builds a sky night scene system algorithm based on a one-inch outsole to achieve accurate semantic extraction and optimization, which greatly improves the expressiveness of computational photography in night shooting scenes. In the night scene sample below, the vivo X100 Ultra's main night scene image accurately restores the light and shadow effect, and has a good anti-glare effect.
To sum up, in the past few years, the blue factory has been seriously researching and developing imaging technology, which is quite the shadow of Huawei. Judging from the actual imaging effect, Thanos is indeed the first echelon to deal with the photography of the mobile phone industry. This is an absolute boon for consumers who like to shoot and take pictures. In addition, during the 618 period, there are more or less discounts online and offline, and you can start if you like it (it is recommended that you do what you can, and other models of the X100 series are also very good)
That's all for today, I'm a 66 science and technology person, and we'll see you next time.