Technology: Breaking the Global Monopoly

Chapter 1929: The Tip of the Iceberg of Kyushu Standards

Respect and follow standardization rules. It is normal for members to have disputes and disagreements during the process of technology upgrading...

Netizens just treated it as gossip and were not very moved.

  But for all the senior executives of companies that have cooperation or competition with Jiuzhou Technology, they feel a sting in their eyes when they see this sentence!

Every industry that Jiuzhou Technology enters will bring about extremely exaggerated changes to that industry.

For example, Jiuzhou Technology's least visible department, Jiuzhou Optics. Generally speaking, the design of a technology company's product optical system must be balanced in all high, medium and low frequency bands to ensure the quality of image details, layers and contours. However, at the level of standard technology, Jiuzhou Technology's imaging expert engineers have put forward higher requirements on the ghost and glare indicators of the lens.

Ghosting and glare refer to the situation where strong light enters the lens and is reflected multiple times between the lenses, thus forming a skull-like shadow and a dot-like light spot in the field of view.

In most cases, the effects of ghosting and glare must be minimized as much as possible through the design of the optical system.

Generally, the light sources used to test ghosting and glare are not very advanced. Even Leica, a top company in the industry, uses a light source equivalent to a projector as a test light source. Although it is dozens of times stronger than the test light sources used by other companies in the industry, it is still significantly lower than the light source equipment of Jiuzhou Technology's Effective Light Technology.

Under extremely strong light sources, the defects of the lens in ghosting and glare are completely exposed, which puts more stringent requirements on the process materials and system algorithms of the camera lens.

When Xiawei Technology Co., Ltd., which first entered the Jiuzhou standard system, put its products into this testing system, its product yield results made Xiawei Technology's engineering team extremely frustrated. For every 100 sets of lenses produced, they could only produce a maximum of five sets of lens modules that met the requirements.

Mr. Ren is old and cannot move around freely. After learning about the situation, Yu Chengdong brought a team of experts to visit Xiaoguang Technology Company many times to discuss improvement plans and follow the guidance of Xiaoguang Technology on how to adjust the shape and spacing of the lenses and how to consider the impact of the peripheral system on the optical part.

With day and night efforts, the yield rate continued to improve, and with the investment of a lot of resources and energy, we barely reached the mass production standard before the scheduled project deadline.

Moreover, whether it is Xiawei Technology Company or Xiaxing Mobile Phone, OPPO, and Honor that later joined Jiuzhou Standard, they all received the same treatment.

During the trial production, a large number of samples were taken for evaluation for each batch of lenses. Even when Xiaxing and OPPO first applied to enter the Jiuzhou standard system, there was not even one lens module that met the requirements among 100 sets of lenses...

Later, I led a team of engineers to learn the technology, introduced equipment and processes from Xiaoguang Technology, and changed suppliers before I was able to barely solve the problem.

This is the real reason why the smart phone manufacturers in Daxia launched the personal mobile phone customization service in Jiuzhou Technology, and later, they were able to kill a number of smart phone brands such as Apple iPhone and Korean Star Galaxy in the overseas market.

A mobile phone lens of true Jiuzhou standard quality will rarely produce ghost images and glare when you point the phone at a strong light source to take photos, and the halo will be soft. With a little adjustment, you can take excellent "light-eating" works.

Color cards are used to test color reproduction. Ordinary mobile phone companies' camera modules are generally required to accurately reproduce 140 color blocks. The standard of Leica, a top company in the industry, is to accurately reproduce 259 color blocks, while the Jiuzhou standard and the technology provided by Xiaoguang Technology can guarantee the accurate reproduction of color blocks.

To meet the standards of Jiuzhou Technology, higher requirements are placed on the components, ISP algorithms and post-processing of mobile phones. Moreover, mobile phone image quality testing is not a small project that can be completed by a team of a few people. It includes multiple projects such as image color, imaging focus, texture, noise, distortion, dynamics, etc. It is a rather complex systematic project.

In addition to technology, image evaluation also has two aspects: objective and subjective. Objective technology also needs to adapt to human subjective evaluation.

Originally, Xiaoguang Technology Co., Ltd. was an equipment manufacturing company for the steady-state micro-bunching SS1MB light source of the semiconductor department of Jiuzhou Technology. It designed and manufactured the camera module for the company's Jiaolong mobile phone, which was also a subsequent project.

In order to accept applications from other companies to join, we subsequently added a department, hired hundreds of outstanding art-related staff, and established a special image evaluation team. There are more than 300 representative fixed scenes alone, as well as thousands of random scenes.

In addition to art-related staff, this evaluation team also includes staff with resumes such as doctors, athletes, and advertising industry practitioners. There are biological males and biological females, as well as some special people with bisexual biological sex.

Their job is to use these test equipment to shoot a large number of sample photos for evaluation every day, and also to receive a large number of Beta test pictures and analyze problems.

They work almost day and night. No matter which company it is, as long as it is a partner company of the Jiuzhou Alliance, no matter if there are problematic samples sent from Daxia, European countries, or the African continent, they will respond as soon as possible, understand the problem, and provide feedback on solutions.

Although it is difficult to enter the Kyushu standard system, the benefits gained after entering this system are also commensurate with the degree of difficulty.

As long as commercial products join the system and meet the system standards, whether they are mobile phone cameras or tablet computer cameras, users of the products will be able to clearly feel the improvement in photo quality after each system firmware upgrade.

Many novice users who have never been exposed to professional photography can rely on these devices to easily produce top-notch quality photos that only top international photographers can achieve.

This is not only a technological breakthrough, but also a technological sublimation of the device's photography.

If ordinary mobile phone manufacturers want to achieve this, even if they invest billions, it may be in vain if they do not find the right technical direction.

But after joining the Kyushu standard system, this step can be taken very easily.

This has also led to the fact that when consumers buy mobile phones, SLRs, tablets, and peripheral cameras, the first thing they look at is not the pixels, but whether the device has Kyushu standard certification.

If not, they will basically ignore the brand products and move directly to the next product.

And this phenomenon is not only present in the domestic consumer market in Daxia, but consumers in overseas markets also hold the same view.