With today’s smartphones, almost all of us can shoot high-quality pictures and videos. Thanks to smartphone manufacturers, numerous camera technologies are now in everyone’s hands, making them more remarkable and inventive, allowing people to empower every moment.
For instance, the international smart device company OPPO has always relied on innovation to succeed in the smartphone industry. Research and development (R&D) of world-class technology became its goal to provide clients with amazing gadgets that can cater to their daily lives. One of the results of this is the latest OPPO Find X5 Pro which comes with high-end camera systems.
The evolution of OPPO’s smartphone camera technology
The quest to develop what drives the OPPO Find X5 Series camera system began with OPPO’s early computer vision algorithm research. To recall, OPPO developed pixel binning technology in 2014, which combines numerous sensor pixels to provide superior photographs in low light.
After that, Optical image stabilization (OIS) and computational photography became popular, allowing users to take crystal clear images at night. Then OPPO leveled up these further as their devices started leveraging imaging techniques like advanced AI noise reduction, and more.
The creation of the OPPO MariSilicon X
These innovative features demand much work from smartphones, resulting in increased battery consumption. The MariSilicon X, the core to the OPPO Find X5 Pro’s paradigm-shifting photography capability, is the ultimate solution for OPPO.
MariSilicon X is a self-designed image Neural Processing Unit (NPU) that focuses on computational and AI photography workloads. It provides the processing power necessary to enable the next-generation and high-end imaging capabilities of the OPPO Find X5 Pro.
Making the 4K Ultra Night Video possible
Computational video is now a struggle for phone cameras. While OPPO smartphones have improved their low-light photo capabilities over the previous four years, the video function continues to present new obstacles.
A single still photograph, for example, might cause a smartphone to spend several seconds gathering and aggregating its data. What more for a video? The OPPO Find X5 Series takes 30 or 60 photos per second for a movie and processes at least three billion pixels per second.
This is where the MariSilicon X comes in, with a processing speed of up to 18 trillion operations per second. As a result, it enables 4K Ultra Night Video, which provides low-light video with dynamic range and clarity, similar to the flagship device’s night photography. It allows light to penetrate the darkness and recovers minor gradations that are typically lost.
But how does it work? The 4K Ultra Night Video combines AINR and 3D noise reduction (3DNR) to improve the quality and dynamic range of nighttime videos. While the Find X5 Pro makes use of digital overlap high dynamic range (DOL-HDR), which allows users to shoot two frames at once for real-time HDR imagery that is devoid of ghosting.
Delivering the Ultra Night Pro to users
The flagship smartphone also has game-changing enhancements to increase low-light stills photography capabilities. Users may now snap photographs with faultless precision with the addition of SLR-level 5-axis OIS. When used, the device can produce amazing low-light images at least three times faster than previous OPPO flagship phones. It is the consequence of a swarm of activity that takes place behind the scenes.
Making the Ultra HDR Photography and Video happen
Achieving the goal of finally taking stunning nighttime stills and videos is the defining moment of the OPPO Find X5 Pro’s camera system. Some of the approaches employed to make this feasible, however, are also critical components in other scenarios.
MariSilicon X’s HDR fusion algorithm supports up to 20 stops of dynamic range, allowing it to capture every detail of such an image without washing out the sky or destroying the captivating hues of a beautiful sunset.
Because of its DOL-HDR function, the flagship device can also take a 4K video to capture this scene with the same clarity. It creates high-dynamic-range footage that is free of ghosting artifacts even when the subject is moving.
Indeed, the OPPO Find X5 Pro is a cutting-edge flagship gadget that will never stop empowering life’s every moment, anytime, and everywhere. Besides these great photography features, the flagship device also has a flawless and timeless appearance while providing top-tier experiences to its consumers.
