"General Manager Feng, why did you gather all of us here? Do you need us to work together?" Jiang Wanmeng laughed and asked.
Every time Feng Yu has an idea for the electronics industry, he will gather all of them to see which company is better at it. That company will be the leader, and the rest of the companies will assist.
This way, everyone can work together to develop the technology faster and also train the R&D staff. All the participating companies will not suffer any losses.
But this time, it is different. Japan's Aiwa and Aiwa are not participating. Instead, it is Changhong's Chief Engineer.
At first, Changhong's Chief Engineer was arrogant. After all, they are the leader of Hua Xia's TV industry. Although they are not doing well this year, they are still the market leader. Their Wind and Rain TV is manufactured by other companies.
Wind and Rain is popular because of their Super Fans and Super VCD players. To Changhong, it is because they are lucky to own one of the patents. If not, they will be overtaken by others.
But after Changhong visited Wind & Rain Electronics's smart home and research center, his arrogance disappeared. Wind & Rain Electronics's house is too amazing. Changhong had never seen such a high-tech house, and he felt he had gone to the future.
Wind & Rain Electronics had mastered the technologies for all these products? Although many of these technologies are still in the research stage, it is still amazing. Wind & Rain Electronics has so many patents, and many of these patents are the world's top technologies. Changhong is impressed!
"Chief Engineer Yang, I saw Changhong has some optical technologies and had applied them to their electronics products. I wonder how many times optical zoom cameras you all can produce? What are the pixels?"
"We can already make a 300,000-pixel digital camera with double optical zoom!" Chief Engineer Yang was proud of himself, but when he thought of the others' achievements, he lowered his voice.
Sure enough, after he said that, he saw Feng Yu frowning. Feng Yu looks very unhappy.
"Chief Engineer Yang, I am talking about the results from the laboratory."
"I am also talking about the results from the laboratory."
Feng Yu was speechless. The lab only had this kind of technology? It seems that he was too optimistic before. Chang Hong's skills are still not good enough.
It definitely wouldn't work if it was used on a mobile phone. Perhaps it could be assembled, but the phone would have to be huge.
Cell phones were currently developing in the direction of being small and thin. If Wind and Rain Cell phones were to introduce a big brick, wouldn't they be laughed at to death?
Seeing that Feng Yu wasn't satisfied, Chief Engineer Yang immediately said, "We also have a digital zoom technology that can achieve three times the zoom!"
Digital zoom, haha, that's a f * cking hilarious technology. It was equivalent to a partial enlargement of the image, with the prerequisite of sacrificing pixels.
In the future, if the camera could reach a few million pixels, this technology would still work. But now, with a 300k pixel camera and a 3x digital zoom, the pictures would be blurry.
"How long have you been researching these technologies?"
"Five years."
Feng Yu almost choked to death. After five years, this was all he got? This is starting from scratch, and the progress should not be so slow. Seems like they did not place enough importance on this and invested too little.
"What about you all? Which one of you is confident of developing digital camera technologies?" Feng Yu looked at everyone.
Everyone was silent, and Chief Engineer Yang's head was about to be buried in his pants.
"What if I don't care about the cost?" Feng Yu continued to ask.
"General Manager Feng, that's not possible. Other countries' digital camera and video camera technologies are way ahead of us. Also, there must be many patents involved. Even if we spend money to develop these technologies, we cannot use them for profits because of the patents. "Jiang Wanmeng reminded Feng Yu.
Feng Yu had bought a digital camera not long ago, and he had the idea of letting Wind & Rain Electronics develop this technology. But later, he realized that this technology is too complicated. It involves optics, machinery, electronics, and the conversion, storage, and transmission of video information.
Wind & Rain Electronics does have video information related technologies. When they were making VCD and DVD players, they had researched these technologies. They can try their best in the mechanical aspect, but they have no experience in optics.
This is an unfamiliar field, and there are many patents blocking their way. It will be difficult to develop these technologies.
Feng Yu gritted his teeth and felt a headache. He had never thought about the problem that Jiang Wanmeng was talking about. It's just like VCD and DVD. It's not because the technologies are difficult. It's because Wind & Rain Electronics owns the core patents. If other companies want to produce, they cannot bypass this technology. This is how Wind & Rain Electronics's products sell well.
There are many digital camera and video camera companies. There are Korean and Japanese companies nearby, and there are also companies in the US and Europe. The related patents must have been applied for by other companies.
Even if these companies spend money to develop these technologies, they cannot use these technologies on their products. If not, it will be considered copyright infringement. Not only the company will have to compensate other companies, but the brand will also be affected.
"General Manager Feng, why don't we visit some camera companies and buy the related technologies from them?" Chief Engineer Yang suggested.
Buy with money? Feng Yu's eyes brighten up. He suddenly thought of a company. This company had produced the world's first digital camera. In 1991, this company had produced a 1.3 megapixel digital camera. This company is the pioneer in the digital camera industry.
But this company is the world's leader in traditional film cameras, and their profits are higher. They did not focus on the digital camera market. After film cameras are withdrawn from the market, they focus on digital cameras. But they realized they could not catch up with other companies. In Feng Yu's previous life, this company had filed for bankruptcy.
Feng Yu does not know how good this company's digital camera technologies are now, but it should be the world's leading digital camera technology. But this company's annual turnover is close to 10 billion USD, and they are still the leader in the digital camera industry. It will be a sky-high price to buy their technologies and patents!
Should Feng Yu talk to this company and buy the authorization for the related patents? This would definitely be much cheaper, but there was also a serious drawback. That was, in the future, he would have to rely on this company. He might even be suppressed by the other party, which would affect his future development.
Feng Yu thought for a while and decided to approach this company first. If the patents are cheap, he will buy it. Since this company does not care about the patents, they might want to sell it for money.
"Alright, I'll contact a foreign company and see if I can buy their patented technology. My next priority is to combine digital cameras and mobile phones to produce a mobile phone with camera functions! "
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