Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi today announced the release of its third-generation under-screen camera technology.
According to Xiaomi, the technology will be the best solution for under-screen cameras, with perfect display and selfie effects, and will truly be ready for mass production.
Xiaomi's third generation of under-screen camera technology allows all physical pixels to light up 100% of the time, solving the shortcomings of the previous two generations of under-screen camera technology.
It uses a new pixel arrangement that allows light to pass through the screen through gaps in sub-pixel areas. This doubles the number of pixels in the display area without sacrificing pixel density, allowing selfie imaging to rival that of traditional front-facing cameras, it said.
Xiaomi said that the technology will be ready for mass production next year.
ZTE has already announced that it will launch the world's first phone with under-screen camera technology, the AXON A20 5G, on September 1.
ZTE will release world's first phone with under-screen camera on Sept 1
Following Xiaomi's announcement of this technology, ZTE's head of consumer experience Lv Qianhao said that the under-screen camera in the ZTE A20 also uses third-generation technology.
In introducing its own under-screen camera technology today, ZTE said the AXON 20 5G's under-screen camera area occupies two-thousandths of the entire screen. Its screen can be divided into seven layers: cover glass, polarizer, encapsulated glass, cathode, OLED, array, and substrate glass, and the film structure is made more transparent to increase screen transparency and inhibit optical diffraction.
Xiaomi's third-generation under-screen camera technology, on the other hand, enables the under-screen camera area to achieve full resolution display through a new pixel arrangement.
At the same time, Xiaomi has made the pixel gaps transparent and redesigned the pixel driver circuitry to make full use of the pixel gaps for light transmission.
This is what the front panel of the ZTE phone with under-screen camera looks like
