Chapter 53: Compound Eyes

Tian Qingwen was indignant: "I think I can still study mathematics for ten years! Aren't you also a lot of things? You even have to do cigarette factories and man-made diamonds, which is really convincing." "Man-made diamonds are a secret project that can only be shared with a good friend like Tian Qingwen.

Ju Chen: "Well, I'll just start, specific research and development needs more specific experts, I even want to do it with a mobile phone, make a real full screen, Apple's special-shaped full screen really stimulates me, they are too unimaginative." ”

Tian Qingwen: "Does your pop-up camera necessarily attract users? It doesn't seem right, few users are interested in 360-degree shooting, I have installed a similar app before, but I have never used it! The wide-angle lens is enough." And it takes time for you to pop up, scanning the QR code is the most important application scenario today, and many cities have begun to pilot scanning the code to take the bus. ”

Juchen fell into deep thought: "Yes, but it doesn't pop out...... There's no place to put a camera, and if you can't take a selfie, it's not easy to sell. ”

Tian Qingwen: "I have a bold idea. ”

Juchen: "Huh?"

Tian Qingwen: "Think about the compound eyes of insects. ”

Juchen: "And then?"

Tian Qingwen: "I've also been thinking about how to make the full screen have a front camera, and I thought of a subversive plan - reform the current light sensor, turn a large piece into a dot-shaped, micron-level compound eye that the user can't see at all, quietly hidden at the edge of the mobile phone, and at the same time make the tiny infrared projector micron-level, which can still transmit tens of thousands of small dots like Apple X to obtain three-dimensional images of the face." ”

Juchen was stunned for a moment, slowly digesting this subversive idea, as if it was really possible to completely hide the camera, but this customization was too ...... Wait, if the compound eye sensor is so small, does it mean that you can find a low-end supplier to manufacture it? Or even build your own factory and register a patent, which means that you can fully control this model and establish a solid technical barrier.

With so many compound eyes, it must be possible to save even the equipment to detect the proximity of the face to the earpiece. It is a complex synthesis technique that is required to fuse the images of the compound eye.

The need for technology is a good thing, which means that there are first movers who have a first-mover advantage for several years.

It seems that Tian Qingwen is more suitable to be the project manager of the mobile phone project!

In view of the sudden increase in the technical difficulty of the compound eye camera, Juchen decided to add $10 million to the project and position the project as top secret.

Originally, I wanted to make a geek mobile phone and make a small user group of 1000 to 10,000, but the idea of compound eye camera is very subversive, and it is possible to make a profit through technical licensing, so it should still be heavily invested.

Juchen suddenly thought of a joke that was probably not a joke: Samsung made more money on its own mobile phones by providing screens to Apple.

Inspired by compound eyes, Ju Chen thinks it's not a big deal, because many compound eyes can make up for the loss of light, and even the main camera on the back is designed to be semi-hidden, how interesting is this?

Not to mention the flash, there are not many negatives brought by the hidden type, so it is possible that Juchen will make the world's first mobile phone with an almost flawless color scheme, and there is nothing to see even on the back.

No problem, because the compound eye can detect whether the face is concerned at any time with the minimum power consumption, and after not being concerned for three minutes, it will automatically enter the state of turning off the screen, and the OLED screen can be low power consumption and permanently realistic simple icons, so the screen is not that you can't find the button, there will be a virtual button, and it can also display the time, weather, and unread information.

It is also possible to design the volume keys as a first-level operation, and they can be adjusted by swiping at any time when placed in the virtual buttons, which may be more user-friendly than the physical keys. So, a mobile phone design that is not just a full screen, or even a pure button-less mobile phone was born.

How much is this mobile phone, Juchen himself is moved, and then hire an old driver in the industry to execute, maybe it can be popular, besides, invest so much to use PCC development, that is a strong promotion for programming crowdsourcing, hmm...... The daily active programmer exceeds 1000 is just around the corner.

Breaking 1,000 is a landmark event, and you don't know what kind of power it is to have 1,000 24-hour spinning and energetic siege lions.

If one day this number becomes 10,000, say that you can't settle down and consider rewriting Android's functions and turning the Android system into your own operating system.

Of course, the most important thing is to convince senior experts in the industry to join, Juchen has no energy to study the technology of manufacturing mobile phones, all to make a great PPT, PPT must have some great renderings and imaginary videos.

Among them, the compound eye camera should be the top priority, and the research should be carried out first, and there is no need to reveal to the team that they will make their own mobile phones in the future, as long as the camera is made, you can also make a profit as a supplier.

But in order to invest in these projects, if none of them give up, Juchen still has a funding gap of several million dollars, and he is worrying about this matter these days.

I thought that an old friend had come to the door, but it was Vanessa, a senior member of the BAT marketing department who had not been dealt with for a long time.

This half-old is really tenacious, and she has pitted tens of millions of dollars in the company, and she is still important to the company, and she has not been put into the cold palace, and she has come to talk about business with Juchen with a confident smile.

"I thought I wouldn't see my dear Miss Vanessa again!" Juchen said meaningfully.

The place where they met was also the campus of Columbia University.

Vanessa smiled slightly: "56 million, it's just a drop in the bucket for our BAT, we won this lawsuit, but we won the lawsuit and lost the popularity, the boss came to ask me what to do, I said, it's very simple, continue to cooperate with Professor Ju, this time it will definitely be more sensational!"

Ju Chen: "Cooperation?"

Vanessa: "Continue to be our spokesperson, last time it was the behavior of the Chinese region, this time it is the global spokesperson, and the price is naturally different." ”

Ju Chen said: "Then I don't have to mess around, I still said in court that I refused to continue to cooperate because I was afraid that my reputation would be affected." ”

Vanessa: "The price is negotiable. She thought that money could impress Juchen.

Juchen asked curiously: "It's good to discuss, how good is it?"

Vanessa: "We can pay $860 million for your endorsement, just like you won the case." ”

Sure enough, Juchen also had to re-evaluate this endorsement that had a great impact on his personal reputation.

He is only short of a few million, and he doesn't seem to be able to make a mistake to impact his reputation.

Vanessa exclaimed, "You would hesitate, with $860 million, you can do anything." ”

Juchen laughed: "Don't say that, don't you know what I'm going to do, what if I want to immigrate to Mars like Elon Musk?"

Vanessa: "I hope you don't have this unrealistic idea, how good the Earth is, go to Mars, the gravity is so small, everyone has hypochondriasis." ”

Ju Chen: "Just kidding, what I want to do is to become a first-class rich man, as for what I will do when I really have tens of billions of dollars, I really don't know." ”

Vanessa: "Yes, getting rich is the first step, of course, you should be worth more than 100 million by now, and ordinary people are already content." ”

Juchen rubbed his hands: "I really didn't expect BAT to find me, unexpectedly, let me think about it." ”