Perfection of Rebirth

Chapter 527 Forward-looking Technology

Jiang Hui's launch of the GPad was also considered based on the sales of the iPad in his previous life.

In the previous life, many people did not understand the positioning of the iPad product at first.When Apple released the first-generation iPad tablet computer, many people thought: This is just a big iPhone.Some even called it the oversized iPod Touch at the time.

Even after a long period of use, most users will feel that the iPad is a 9.7-inch large-screen game console.Even though the iPad's software applications are useful in many fields, the iPad is still considered by the public to be an entertainment device.

An organization once conducted a survey. What do users who have owned an iPad for a long time use it for?It was found that 52% of users only take their iPad with them when they travel, 21% only take their iPad with them when they go out, and 17% only take their iPad with them for work.

This data fully demonstrates that users' demand for the iPad is very strong.

In fact, in Jiang Hui's view, the advantages of the iPad in movies are obvious, simple; convenient; fast, saving the trouble of turning on the computer.In addition, by downloading movies and storing them in the player in the iPad, the iPad can become a good product to relieve boredom during business trips or travel.

It is not too much to say that iPad is the best mobile video player, because it has the best mobile playback effect among tablet devices at present, and the 9.7-inch design also makes iPad can be easily carried during long-distance travel.So watching movies and watching videos is also a very important function of the iPad. Even if you haven’t used the iPad for a long time, you still won’t forget to think about it when you go out.

That's why Jiang Hui hopes that Guanghui Mobile will launch GPad as soon as possible to seize the market in this emerging field.

Although it cannot be said that GPad will be more popular than GPHONE, but in the past few years, the difference in quantity will definitely not be very large.However, after three to five years, when the proportion of users owning various generations of GPads is relatively high, sales may decline.After all, compared with mobile phones, users' demand for updating pads will not be so strong.Basically, it is understandable that if a user buys a GPad, there will be one less potential user of the Gpad.

"Mr. Jiang, I suggest that the Gpad development team should be placed in the Imperial City first, so that it will be easier to recruit people. Now our Guanghui Mobile has a particularly strong demand for talents," Wang Mengyu suggested.

For the development of GPHONE, due to the consideration of confidentiality, the development team is not too large. Now that it has been officially released, it is necessary to expand the scale of research and development as soon as possible. Otherwise, Jiang Hui really lacks talents to implement various ideas.

"Yes, the Guanghui Building will be completed soon, and I will ask Tang Minghua to arrange a few floors for you to use."

Apple used to have 10,000+ employees in its previous life, and of course, most of them were salespeople in directly-operated stores.However, the number of R&D personnel still exceeds 1.The current research and development personnel of Guanghui mobile phone is only a few hundred people, which can be said to be very weak.

"The office building is one aspect. The most important thing is that we need to recruit a lot of manpower and purchase some research and development equipment." Wang Mengyu began to ask Jiang Hui for resources.

A qualified team manager needs to learn to ask for resources from his superiors. Wang Mengyu undoubtedly looks more and more like a qualified company leader.

"The capital flow of less than 1000 million can be signed and approved by Mr. Dai. For personnel recruitment, you list the requirements and submit it to the HR department of the group, and they will organize campus recruitment soon."

"Mr. Jiang, do you have any special ideas for our next-generation products so that we can have a direction?" Dai Fuqian said.

"The most basic must be to upgrade the hardware on the basis of the existing GPHONE. The processor needs to be faster, the display screen needs to be higher resolution, the battery power needs to be higher, and the camera pixels need to be higher... ", Jiang Hui first put forward a bunch of basic opinions, these contents do not need Jiang Hui to explain too much, the development team should be able to find the way forward.

"We are the leader in smartphones. Only hardware upgrades are definitely not enough. We must continue to introduce some new technologies. I will first arrange a few projects that must be promoted. The first is fingerprint recognition, the second is face recognition, and the second is facial recognition. The third is speech recognition." Jiang Hui began to arrange the new technology development direction of Guanghui mobile phone.

Fingerprints are the uneven lines on the skin at the end of a person's fingers.The lines are arranged regularly to form different grain types.Fingerprint lines are not continuous, smooth and straight, but often interrupted, bifurcated or turned.These breakpoints, bifurcation points and turning points are called "characteristic points".

Fingerprint recognition is to identify by comparing the detail feature points of different fingerprints.

Because everyone's fingerprints are different, even between the ten fingers of the same person, there are obvious differences in fingerprints, so fingerprints can be used for identification.Since the orientation of each printing is not exactly the same, different points of application will cause different degrees of deformation, and there are a large number of fuzzy fingerprints. How to correctly extract features and achieve correct matching is the key to fingerprint recognition technology.

So fingerprint recognition, which looks simple, is actually not simple at all. It involves image processing, pattern recognition, computer vision, mathematical morphology, wavelet analysis and many other disciplines.It takes a lot of people to research to develop a fingerprint recognition technology that is really suitable for mobile phones.

Face recognition is a biometric technology for identification based on human facial feature information.Using a video camera or a camera to collect images or video streams containing human faces, and automatically detect and track human faces in the images, and then perform a series of related technologies on the detected faces, this has been done decades ago. technology.

However, what Jiang Hui wants is a super-recognizable face recognition technology that can be used on mobile phones. The research on this area can be said to be endless.

As for speech recognition technology, it is not a new concept, but it is a real and difficult technology. The fields involved include: signal processing, pattern recognition, probability theory and information theory, sound mechanism and auditory mechanism, artificial intelligence etc.

If Guanghui mobile phone only wants to have an ordinary voice function, then there is one on the market now.

As early as 1952, Davis and others at the Bell Research Institute succeeded in researching the world's first experimental system that can recognize the pronunciation of 10 English digits.After more than 50 years of development, speech recognition technology has reached a critical point. Once a breakthrough is made, speech recognition technology will quickly enter various fields such as industry, home appliances, communications, automotive electronics, medical care, home services, and consumer electronics.

Jiang Hui naturally didn't want Guanghui Mobile to lag behind in this respect.To a certain extent, this technology is compatible with artificial intelligence projects. Once a technology with practical application significance is developed, Guanghui Group can use it in many fields.

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