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1, foreign media: Apple may decide Broadcom 130 billion acquisition of Qualcomm transactions success or failure;
Nov. 10 News, Broadcom has issued a tender offer to Qualcomm, to be 130 billion US dollars acquisition of Qualcomm, foreign media recently said in a report, and Qualcomm licensing fee dispute the existence of Apple, may decide the success or failure of the acquisition.
Apple may decide the success or failure of Broadcom acquisition of Qualcomm, mainly Apple and Qualcomm patent licensing disputes, has affected Qualcomm's share price, Apple in January this year, Qualcomm to court, resulting in Qualcomm shares fell 12.7% the following day, Qualcomm shares have not been able to return to the level before Apple sued before the Broadcom acquisition of Qualcomm appears.
Qualcomm shares will rise once the Qualcomm solves the dispute with the patent licensing fees between Apple, Broadcom proposed by the acquisition price no longer has a strong appeal, it is difficult to attract the interest of Qualcomm shareholders.
Broadcom proposed the purchase price of 70 US dollars per share, the specific way to $ 60 cash and 10 US dollars Broadcom Equity Equity.In the media coverage Broadcom acquisition Qualcomm the previous trading day, Qualcomm shares closing price of 54.84 US dollars, Broadcom proposed The purchase price is 28% higher than the closing price of Qualcomm on Nov. 2.
The day before Apple sued Qualcomm, Qualcomm's closing price of 62.77 US dollars.If Qualcomm to resolve the patent licensing disputes with Apple to stimulate Qualcomm shares back to the level before Apple's indictment, then Broadcom acquisition price of 70 dollars Attraction will be greatly reduced, Qualcomm shareholders may not accept.
Whether Qualcomm and Apple to resolve patent licensing disputes, see Qualcomm and Apple are willing to make concessions, if Qualcomm appropriate lower royalties, Apple also accept Qualcomm new license fee standards, the two sides may reconciliation, revocation Litigation in court.
However, Apple may also borrow Qualcomm acquisition by Broadcom to decide whether to resolve the dispute with Qualcomm.If Apple considers Broadcom acquired Qualcomm, its favorable and stable to provide better parts, patent licensing fees also Satisfying apples, apples may not compete with Qualcomm for patent licensing fees; once Apple finds it unfavorable to Qualcomm after its acquisition of Qualcomm, it may promptly resolve the dispute over patent licensing fees with Qualcomm to prevent it from being acquired by Broadcom.
Qualcomm and Apple around the patent licensing disputes arising from January this year, January 20. Apple Paper sued Qualcomm to court, accused Qualcomm use of its monopoly in the field of mobile phone baseband chip, retaliation for Apple and the United States Foreign Trade Commission (FTC) refused to refund the promised 1 billion US dollars patent license fee, Apple asked Qualcomm to refund the promised 1 billion US dollars patent license fee.
In April, Qualcomm also launched a counterattack against Apple's lawsuit. In a 134-page pleading, Qualcomm listed 35 defense grounds, denying Apple's charges one by one, and filing Apple's injustices with Qualcomm, Apple launched a counterclaim.
The dispute between the two sides then expanded to suppliers, and Apple suppliers began to stop paying royalties to Qualcomm. Qualcomm also brought four major Apple suppliers, Foxconn, Wistron, Compal and Heshuo to court.
Qualcomm Apple and the dispute has seriously affected the Qualcomm revenue and profits Qualcomm announced in the November 1, 2017 fiscal fourth quarter earnings report, Apple in the second quarter of 2017 did not pay full patent License fees, which were either completely unpaid in the third and fourth quarters, were also not responded, resulting in a 89% year-over-year decline in Qualcomm's net profit in the fourth quarter of FY 2017. Techweb
2, Apple's iPhone X for the acquisition of 3D images 'point projection' has been patented;
Today, the United States Patent and Trademark Office publishes a patent application related to digital image acquisition, particularly 3D image acquisition, which, in general, is related to the technology used by Apple TrueDepth cameras, using point projection rather than The traditional laser beam to determine the 3D image. Traditional laser beam technology is very power-hungry, nor is it suitable for mobile phones such as the iPhone.
Apple claims that one of the non-contact technologies can use structured light to acquire 3D images. Structured light projects a known band of light (such as a striped ribbon image) on the surface of an object to detect the deformation of the image. , One or more cameras to acquire the deformation images, and the image acquisition system to calculate the depth and surface information of the objects within the range of the camera using the acquired deformation images.
However, structured light sources are usually based on expensive and costly laser beam sources, so 3D image acquisition systems can not be used in electronic devices where computing power and electrical energy are both relatively limited, such as mobile devices.
Apple's solution for this is to develop products that can resolve 3D spatial information for multivariate image acquisition systems, including the acquisition of communication synchronization between the first image acquisition system and one or more additional image acquisition systems prior to acquisition, It enters the image acquisition phase, producing the first pulse, projecting the light band, capturing the image, including the image that caused the deformation.
The first pulse may be modulated for the first image acquisition system, or even other camera information encoding Another image acquisition system sends a second pulse based on communication flash synchronization, this time the second pulse for the second image acquisition system , And even other camera information related to the second burst.
During the second pulse, the first image acquisition system acquires the second image of the environment.Based on the information collected in the first two images, including the identification code and camera information, the first image acquisition system determines the direction of the second image acquisition system, and The first image acquisition system related.
Apple's FIG. 3A patent (below) is a schematic diagram of a multi-camera system; FIG. 3B is a block diagram showing that a multi-camera system determines the relative position and orientation of each camera.
Apple patented 3D depth camera spot map
Specifically, in patent FIG. 3A, we can see that a multi-camera system # 300 has multiple cameras # 302 to capture one scene # 306. The patent makes two independent cameras more compelling, which truly demonstrates Apple Double Shot TrueDepth.
Scenes may include one or more objects, at least in the field of view of one camera. In addition, each camera may contain a structured light source # 308 to project a pre-defined band of light (eg, a 2D lattice or line pattern) This is what Apple calls 'point projection'.
A structured light source may contain one or more optical flash assemblies to project and illuminate a preset light band.The structured light source generates a flash of light with high current, low voltage light emitting diodes (LEDs).
It is also possible to illuminate with a different type of flash device, such as a xenon flash device, or one or more laser elements, such as a vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL), projected through an optical lens system.
One of Apple's VCSEL suppliers is IQE and the other supplier is Lumentum
3, Samsung folded dual-screen phone Galaxy X patent application in South Korea;
