Digi.en has previously written about the Norwegian company Elliptic Labs has developed technology that can exploit the ultralydegenskapene to the microphones and the speakers that are sitting in today’s advanced smartphones.
When we talked with the Norwegian company last, they could tell that several large international companies were interested, but they could not reveal who.
– the Program I the very smallest wrestler we taushetsklausulen and we can risk a fine of a million dollars, said the company’s chief technology officer Haakon Bryhni of the digi.now in February.
the Cat is out of the bag
Now is the cat out of the bag, and Aftenposten writes on Tuesday that it is the chinese company Xiaomi is the first to implement the technology.
How much the contract is worth will not Elliptic Labs out there with this time either.
– This is our company’s breakthrough. In a market with cut-throat competition and remarkably little designinnovasjon since Apple introduced the IPhone in 2007, this is the biggest innovation in nearly a decade, ” says ceo Laila Danielsen in Elliptic Labs to Aftenposten.
one year ago was Xiaomi, the fourth largest phone manufacturer in the world, but in anticipation of the new model to come, the company has fallen out of the top 5 list, writes the newspaper.
Very accurate
the Technology has been given the name Beauty, and with the can phone manufacturers throw out the IR-based the proximity sensor, as all mobiles have at the front and including to turn off the screen when holding the phone up to your ear.
instead, we use software that makes that we can measure the distance to the face by sending ultrasound out from the speaker. By measuring the time it uses when we receive the signal in the microphone, we can determine the distance to the face of the millimeter. It is much more accurate than an IR sensor to the 50 cents manages, explained Bryhni to digi.now in February.
Sell 70 million phones
Laila Danielsen tells the newspaper Aftenposten that the Norwegian company negotiates with several other mobile device manufacturers who want to implement the same solution.
the Reason that we make a first contract with Xiaomi, among other things, that this great chinese company be able to offer a much higher price for our product than we could otherwise achieve. It also tells something about how much weight a manufacturer that sells almost 70 million mobile phones annually put on to be the first on the market with Inner Beauty-the solution, ” says Laila Danielsen.
the Contract with the chinese mobile provider’s Elliptic Labs' first commercial success.
the Technology is very versatile
these nine years have patient investors spat into around 150 million in the development of the technology that in the long term can be used in everything from light bulbs to smoke detectors and all sorts of other gadgets to add more and better functionality, according to chief technology officer Bryhni.
From 2017, we serve money, and it provides opportunities for growth. I hope many in Norway will be to develop the world’s best ultralydteknologiselskap. Elliptic Labs are now employing many engineers with signal processing and software development as a specialty, “says executive vice president Danielsen, who is flown in to Beijing from his base in San Francisco to participate in the launch, only with a short stop at employees in Oslo along the way,” says Danielsen to Aftenposten.
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