According to Bloomberg quoted people familiar with the matter, Apple is developing a new 3D sensor system for the 2019 iPhone, unlike the iPhone X's front 3D deep camera, this is the rear 3D sensor.
It is reported that Apple is evaluating a different kind of technology with TrueDepth sensor system on the front of the iPhone X. The existing deep system is more dependent on structured light technology, the principle of which is 3000 points of laser light hit the user's face, and then generate accurate While the post-deep technology that Apple is considering is somewhat similar to the TOF technology now being developed by Sony, and its principle is to sense people and objects by counting the time it takes for light to reflect Its shape, it sounds a bit like the echolocation of bats.
At the same time developing the same type of sensor technology, including Sony, Panasonic, STMicroelectronics, Infineon Semiconductor, but the technology is still in the testing phase, but the above companies are likely to become the future supplier of Apple's cooperation.
If the research is feasible, the future iPhone will have both front and rear 3D sensing systems, front for Face ID and face-based AR applications, while the rear is fully used for AR technology. With ARKit software, developers can iPhone manufactures a variety of AR programs, but the current drawback is the lack of realism in the depth perception of virtual objects, which can easily be solved by a back-end 3D sensor.
According to Bloomberg quoted people familiar with the matter, Apple is developing a new 3D sensor system for the 2019 iPhone, unlike the iPhone X's front 3D deep camera, this is the rear 3D sensor.
It is reported that Apple is evaluating a different kind of technology with TrueDepth sensor system on the front of the iPhone X. The existing deep system is more dependent on structured light technology, the principle of which is 3000 points of laser light hit the user's face, and then generate accurate While the post-deep technology that Apple is considering is somewhat similar to the TOF technology now being developed by Sony, and its principle is to sense people and objects by counting the time it takes for light to reflect Its shape, it sounds a bit like the echolocation of bats.
At the same time developing the same type of sensor technology, including Sony, Panasonic, STMicroelectronics, Infineon Semiconductor, but the technology is still in the testing phase, but the above companies are likely to become the future supplier of Apple's cooperation.
If the research is feasible, the future iPhone will have both front and rear 3D sensing systems, front for Face ID and face-based AR applications, while the rear is fully used for AR technology. With ARKit software, developers can iPhone manufactures a variety of AR programs, but the current drawback is the lack of realism in the depth perception of virtual objects, which can easily be solved by a back-end 3D sensor.
