vivo Unveils V3 chip with 6nm Processes, Powering 4K Cinema Portrait Mode

SHENZHEN, China, July 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — vivo at present held this 12 months’s Special Event of the 2023 vivo Imaging Conference in Xining, China, the place it showcased a number of improvements in imaging expertise. The firm unveiled the V3 chip, a state-of-the-art 6nm custom-made V3 chip, in addition to the newest algorithm expertise. In addition, vivo revealed a periscope lens with the brand new “Vario-Apo-Sonnar” requirements developed in partnership with ZEISS. During the occasion, vivo additionally introduced the winners of the 2023 VISION+ Mobile PhotoAwards, with Indonesia photographer Jiehan Herry Saputro ‘s “Let Me Fly” topped the Best Photograph of the Year.

Yu Meng, Vice President of vivo Imaging; Li Zhuo, Senior Director of vivo Imaging Products; Sebastian Döntgen, Head of Category Management, Marketing and Sales, ZEISS Consumer Products; Zhang Yan, Product Manager of vivo Imaging Performance; visible artists Gao Yuan and Duan Yueheng; Song Wen, Founder of FIRST International Film Festival; and Bertram Hönlinger, ZEISS Expert of Photography, attended the occasion to share their views on technological innovation and the way forward for cellular imaging.

“At vivo, we are committed to advancing ‘human-centric professional imaging’. To this end, we continuously enhance our expertise across optics, computing, and algorithm foundations to build imaging capabilities comparable to professional photography equipment. We aim to deliver the user experience of recreating what the human eye can see and make professional-grade imaging capabilities more accessible for everyone. In the future, vivo will stay committed to creating the best imaging technology and help users record life’s most precious moments,” stated Mr. Yu Meng.

At a time when everybody could be a creator, vivo has been devoted to offering distinctive person expertise with progressive cellular imaging expertise. From industry-outstanding imaging chips and algorithms to increasing technological boundaries in partnership with different {industry} leaders, vivo continues to make efforts to spice up its picture expertise strengths and enhance the person expertise in any situation.

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Unveiling the newest V3 chip and algorithm expertise 

The model’s newest V3 chip adopts a 6nm course of and incorporates a newly designed multi-concurrent AI-ISP structure and second-generation Frame Info Tunneling (FIT) expertise. The expertise improve delivers a superior person expertise by enabling 4K cinema-like bokeh, automated topic focus detection and switching, cinema-like pores and skin optimization, and cinematic coloration processing. This makes vivo the primary Android cellphone maker to allow 4K cinema-quality portrait video with post-processing capabilities.

In addition to the launch of the brand new V3 chip, vivo has additionally introduced a composite algorithm matrix answer. The firm’s new vivo Origin Imaging Engine (VOIE) enhances picture high quality, coloration, tone, and computing performance by advancing the underlying algorithmic capabilities for 3 sub-modules: Color Restoration Engine, Ultra HD Engine, and Accelerated Computing Engine. vivo additionally developed the Hyper-Sense Portrait System and Vast-Sky Night System based mostly on the widespread portrait and night time scene person situations. Additionally, vivo has been constantly upgrading its algorithmic matrix and technological capabilities to make sure the absolute best capturing expertise in varied situations.

Building a affluent picture ecosystem with joint innovation

vivo’s long-term partnership with optical pioneer ZEISS has led to breakthrough improvements for X collection, from technology to technology proving ZEISS applied sciences and iconic optical designs had been tailored for vivo’s flagships. ZEISS T* coating for superior optical high quality and iconic ZEISS Style Portrait to call just some.

At the occasion, vivo and ZEISS collectively introduced a periscope lens design with the brand new “Vario-Apo-Sonnar” requirements. APO design is taken into account to have the extent of the {industry}’s top-quality management of chromatic aberration. For the very first time, the APO design will probably be tailored to a cellular imaging system enhancing a excessive efficiency zoom high quality.

Further leveraging the floating lens group expertise within the periscope lens, aiming to offer ultra-high decision and enhanced focusing functionality, to allow customers to realize wonderful macro capturing outcomes. At the identical time, it additionally has a creamy bokeh impact that permits the topic to be additional emphasised.

The T* Coating is ZEISS’s signature expertise for anti-reflective coating on optical floor. The co-engineered rear digital camera system within the vivo’s X collection has achieved compliance with ZEISS T* Coating and lowered considerably undesirable lens flares in photographs underneath difficult lighting circumstances comparable to nighttime, sturdy backlighting, and complicated gentle sources.

For vivo’s upcoming X collection flagship mannequin, ZEISS T* Coating will probably be geared up with Multi-ALD expertise to boost additional the picture readability, by decreasing heart reflectivity from 0.2% to 0.1% on the seen gentle spectrum. Compared with the earlier technology of ALC coating, the reflectivity will probably be lowered by 50%.

In addition to product innovation and joint improvement, being user-oriented is in vivo’s and ZEISS’ joint perception. vivo is dedicated to additional diversifying the cooperation with ZEISS, together with co-organizing the 2023 VISION+ Mobile PhotoAwards.

Sebastian Döntgen, Head of Category Management, Marketing and Sales, ZEISS Consumer Products stated: “At ZEISS, we have photography in our DNA. To invite and enable even more users worldwide to enjoy creativity through cutting-edge smartphone image technology, it was a logical step for us to co-organize the 2023 VISION+ Mobile PhotoAwards with vivo. The impressive results that we were able to experience again this year are a great acknowledgment of our partnership on imaging aspects.”

vivo has introduced a deep collaboration with MediaTek for its X80 collection. Additionally, vivo plans to crew up with Sony for additional collaboration on applied sciences comparable to 2-layer pixel (stack pixel) and HDR sooner or later. vivo will even actively broaden joint innovation analysis by collaborating with extra {industry} companions, and with instructional institutes comparable to ETH Zurich and different universities, striving for technological breakthroughs and a extra diversified and open cellular imaging ecosystem.

Creating skilled portraits and the final word night time scene experiences

vivo has fashioned a singular portrait fashion that blends clear texture, pure pores and skin tones, and a steadiness of actual and digital results throughout gadget iterations. In addition, the model continues to analysis and develop 3D portrait expertise with 3D facial reconstruction and digital content material.

To this finish, vivo has relied on its imaging laboratory platform to ascertain a 3D picture laboratory with a proprietary cinema-like optical subject system, able to reconstructing extraordinarily delicate 3D fashions of human faces and producing extremely life like visible results in digital environments. Based on expertise gained from previous merchandise and real-life enterprise situations, the corporate’s 3D fashions obtain exact facial expressions, physique postures and gestures.

These applied sciences have been developed with three person situations in thoughts: generative portrait fashion, generative portrait enhancing, and varied portrait particular results. Users will be capable of take pictures that completely steadiness actual and digital results, edit pictures powered by texture reconstruction and lighting estimation algorithms and freely change the lighting, hair and facial expressions.

vivo has launched enhancements to its technical capabilities in picture high quality, tone, and coloration for panorama capturing. The upgraded Vast-Sky Night System was designed to enhance picture high quality and provide probably the most superior high quality answer for night time scenes in any respect focal lengths. The upgraded SuperRAW expertise provides unique parameter adjustment capabilities, assembly any skilled imaging necessities for all focal lengths.

Based on VOIE, vivo has additionally launched a True Color Night mannequin powered by AI studying to the Night Sky Imaging System. This enhancement permits adaptive tone and coloration changes for night time scenes and for night time scenes with excessive distinction, a complete night time HDR answer has been launched to deal with viewing points in preview, capturing and show modes. In addition, the brand new XDR Photo 2.0 provides a spotlight coloration preservation mechanism for gentle sources with excessive dynamic vary and saturation at night time. This improves the overexposure for highlights with out affecting the colour efficiency of the sunshine supply and preserves the night time scene.

In the long run, vivo will work along with Adobe, Apple, and Google to enhance HDR picture standardization and overcome the inconsistent show of HDR pictures on totally different gadgets—making vivo the one Chinese firm concerned within the improvement of the IOS requirements for HDR pictures.

On high of vivo’s authentic distinctive colours and ZEISS Natural Color, vivo’s crew has launched a collection of wealthy and customized colours, drawing inspiration from basic images strategies, basic movies, and masterworks.

2023 vivo VISION+ Mobile PhotoAwards Winners

During this 12 months’s Special Event on the Imaging Conference, vivo additionally introduced the winners of this 12 months’s VISION+ Mobile PhotoAwards. The high award went to Jiehan Herry Saputro ‘s “Let Me Fly”, which is topped the Best Photograph of the Year. In addition, the competitors included awards in six classes: Portrait, Photo Series, Night, Landscape, Motion, and News. Two particular awards had been additionally introduced: the X90 Series Best Photograph Award and the ZEISS Professional Imaging Award.

Since its inaugural launch in 2020, the VISION+ Mobile PhotoAwards program has obtained almost a million submissions from over 40 nations and areas. This 12 months, vivo obtained submissions from India, Malaysia, Indonesia, Myanmar, and lots of different nations and areas.

Note: Please remember that a number of the options and applied sciences talked about on this press launch might presently solely be obtainable within the Chinese Mainland market. The availability of sure capabilities and capabilities might differ relying in your location.

About vivo

vivo is a expertise firm that creates nice merchandise based mostly on a design-driven worth, with sensible gadgets and clever companies as its core. The firm goals to construct a bridge between people and the digital world. Through distinctive creativity, vivo supplies customers with an more and more handy cellular and digital life. Following the corporate’s core values, which embody Benfen*, user-orientation, design-driven worth, steady studying and crew spirit, vivo has carried out a sustainable improvement technique with the imaginative and prescient of growing right into a more healthy, extra sustainable world-class company.

While bringing collectively and growing the most effective native abilities to ship excellence, vivo is supported by a community of R&D facilities in Shenzhen, Dongguan, Nanjing, Beijing, Hangzhou, Shanghai, Xi’an and extra cities, specializing in the event of state-of-the-art shopper applied sciences, together with 5G, synthetic intelligence, industrial design, imaging system and different up-and-coming applied sciences. vivo has additionally arrange an clever manufacturing community (together with these approved by vivo), with an annual manufacturing capability of almost 200 million smartphones. As of now, vivo has branched out its gross sales community throughout greater than 60 nations and areas, and is liked by greater than 500 million customers worldwide.

*”Benfen” is a time period describing the perspective on doing the best issues and doing issues proper – which is the perfect description of vivo’s mission to create worth for society.

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