Top of the Great Era

Chapter 2969 Diamond Arrangement

It's the end of the year, and it's really busy.

Zhou Buqi would definitely pick out the key ones to deal with. For companies like Changyou, Ziweixing Global, PayPal, and Ziweixing Digital Media, basically it would be enough to just listen to their reports and understand the general situation, and then let professional managers handle them.

No matter how well it was handled, everyone turned a blind eye.

As long as the general trend is right, that's enough.

As long as we grasp the general trend, some mistakes in business details will at most cause certain business waste but will not affect the overall situation.

What Zhou Buqi cares more about obviously is the business of Ziweixing and Ziweixing International.

This is his core territory.

However, Fu Sheng's mission is also very important.

Now is the best time to acquire patents related to OLED displays. If a mobile phone with an OLED screen is launched in the market in a year or two and is well received by the market, it will be too late and you will not be qualified to enter the market.

In the afternoon, Fu Sheng arrived as expected.

He was dusty and looked very anxious.

Zhou Buqi quickly pulled him to sit down, "What's going on?"

Fu Sheng said: "I found an important patent about OLED screens. If high-end smartphones will be equipped with OLED display panels in the future as you said, then this patent is likely to be the most critical. Unless there is a greater technological breakthrough and a better patent to replace it. But for now, this patent is the best in the market. I have consulted several industry experts."

Seeing what he said was mysterious, Zhou Buqi said categorically: "OLED display screens must be the trend of the future, because in the field of high-end phones, apart from Apple, only Samsung and Asda are playing the game. Now Samsung is blocked by LG and is betting on OLED. I also intend to promote OLED. As long as Samsung and Asda join forces, the market will be educated soon, and OLED screens will become the real high-end screens in the public's perception, and the standard configuration of high-end phones. By then, even the iPhone will have to turn back to use OLED screens."

"That's enough!"

Fu Sheng clenched his fists.

Zhou Buqi asked: "What exactly is the patent?"

Fu Sheng said: "The patent for pixel arrangement."

"what?"

Zhou Buqi was a little confused.

Fu Sheng had the obligation to popularize the common sense concept of display panels to the big boss, and said: "In the past, the display panels did not emit light from the screen. They all relied on the backlight panel under the screen to emit light. The screen itself was equivalent to a glass of a different material, which only had the function of transmitting light."

"I know."

Zhou Buqi nodded. This was told to him by his secretary Zhang Zetian.

Fu Sheng went on to say: "OLED panels are different. They are diodes made of organic materials... The most critical thing is the organic material."

Zhou Buqi said: "Well, organic materials can emit light by themselves, so there is no need for a backlight. So OLED panels are thinner and more flexible, but more expensive, have a shorter lifespan, and are prone to screen burn-in."

"Yes, that's what I mean. The organic material of OLED can emit light by itself. Each pixel is composed of different color pixels, but the color pixels will have color fringing at different viewing angles, and even screen distortion..." Fu Sheng felt that this concept was a bit complicated, and it would be difficult for Boss Zhou to explain it too clearly, so he simply said, "I'll just give a rough idea. It's equivalent to every molecule supplying electricity to emit light. However, when light propagates, it will reflect and refract when it encounters a medium."

"Ah."

"The molecules on the screen are arranged one by one, one on top of another, which means that when these organic material molecules emit light, the photons will interfere with each other, ultimately resulting in unsatisfactory display effects." "So it is necessary to arrange these molecules of organic materials more appropriately. Through the best arrangement, the photon interference between different molecules can be minimized, thereby achieving the best presentation effect!"

Zhou Buqi didn't study very well in college, but he was considered a top student in middle school.

This most basic knowledge about the propagation of light is all knowledge learned in high school physics, and he understood the principle immediately after hearing it.

Fu Sheng said happily: "That's roughly what I mean. The current OLED screen actually has four major technical directions. One is to improve stability and prevent screen burn-in; one is to improve flexibility so that curved screens can be made; one is to make it thinner and lighter. Another is to find a better way to arrange pixels so that the OLED screen can have better imaging performance, more delicate colors, higher saturation, and better visual experience."

Zhou Buqi immediately gave his judgment, "The arrangement of pixels is the most intuitive, and it is also the technical direction that can be directly exposed to users after the large-scale promotion of OLED screens."

Fu Sheng said: "I also think this technical direction is very important. I spent two days researching it at the Patent Office, and I actually found some clues!"

"What mystery?"

"There is a patent for pixel arrangement that is considered by the industry to be the best at present. It was developed by a small American company in 09 and is called diamond arrangement. In fact, many other arrangement patents have been applied for in the past two years, with as many as seven or eight patents. However, I have consulted relevant people and they believe that diamond arrangement is still the most effective arrangement at present."

"Then do it! Buy it!"

Zhou Buqi must find a way to restrict Samsung's dominant position in the display field, otherwise Asda will definitely be subject to Samsung's supply constraints for a long time.

Fu Sheng shook his head. "There are two problems now. First, this arrangement patent is not a real hard-core technology. In fact, it is a combination of permutations. From countless permutations and combinations, we can find the combination with the best effect. Is the diamond arrangement the best arrangement? Definitely not. The diamond arrangement also has many defects. Now the effect of the diamond arrangement is indeed the best. Maybe in a year or two, a better arrangement will be found."

Zhou Buqi's eyes lit up. "Find the best effect from countless combinations?"

Fu Sheng said: "Yes, it is to find the combination of materials that has the least interference with photons."

Zhou Buqi smiled and said, "Wouldn't it be better to let artificial intelligence do this kind of large-scale engineering work? Let AI do it!"

Fu Sheng laughed, "Then I don't know. You have to find the most professional people to do it. In addition to the best artificial intelligence technology, you also need the best optical team to cooperate. This diamond patent was discovered by a small company engaged in the field of optics."

Zhou Buqi sighed. He didn't have enough power to expand infinitely now. "Artificial intelligence is not that easy. I am now planning a project as big as the Manhattan Project, and I am looking for a leader. I don't have time to do pixel arrangement in the short term."

"What should I do?"

"Buy it! Buy the diamond patent first. Whether it's $1 million or $2 million, it's no problem. I'll pay for it!"

"Uh..." Fu Sheng pulled the corner of his mouth, "It's not that easy."

Zhou Buqi asked: "What's wrong?"

Fu Sheng said: "There is a second problem. Samsung has been paying attention to the OLED field for many years. They paid attention to this field earlier than you."

"Ah?" Zhou Buqi was shocked. "Taken away by Samsung?"

"Yes."

Fu Sheng nodded.

Zhou Buqi was greatly disappointed.

  It’s still too late!

This is going to be difficult!

Unexpectedly, Fu Sheng immediately shook his head and said, "No."