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- Oppo has announced an end-to-end color management system for its future smartphones.
- The system includes the acquisition, storage and playback of images in 10-bit color depth with support for a wide color gamut.
- Oppos Find X3 will be the first device equipped with this technology in 2021.
Recently, the war for the smartphone display has been waged with weapons with high refresh rates, high pixel densities and almost tablet dimensions. Now Oppo is targeting an often overlooked aspect – color accuracy.
Oppo has announced a new “Full-Path Color Management System” for the company’s flagships for 2021, starting with the Oppo Find X3. The end-to-end image processing system enables devices like the Find X3 to save HEIF images with support for 10-bit color depth and the DCI-P3 color gamut.
This should allow the Find X3 to take pictures with a wider variety of colors and also display those colors as they were captured on the control panel. Although Android supported the standard as early as 2019, Oppo is the first Android OEM to complete the 10-bit loop with large color gamut from capture to display.
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“Compared to the 8-bit depth, the 10-bit color depth reduces the artificial visual features caused by color gaps. The 10-bit color depth further enhances the gradient to improve the quality of the visual content during creation and post-processing, ”says Oppo.
The company apparently has big plans for the Find X3 in this regard. According to Oppo, the phone supports HDR with digital overlap, which can be used to take pictures with different exposures for wider color extraction. The company will also take color calibration of its future devices seriously.
There are also gains in storage. Using HEIF to store images results in a file size of around 50% of a JPEG with more detail, according to other phones that use the format. Oppo believes there is room for improvement for HEIF as a format as well.
While it isn’t the first company to offer 10-bit capture on its devices or 10-bit color dials on its phones, Oppo’s move should encourage more OEMs to advance this technology. Perhaps more flagships are moving away from 8-bit displays limited to sRGB, and the hardware is ready to capture and display more detailed and accurate scenes. This is ultimately a win for consumers.
It’s unclear what else the Oppo Find X3 will bring in 2021, but more details are expected to arrive well before its launch.