Samsung on Thursday unveiled a brand new 200MP telephoto picture sensor for smartphones with beefed-up gentle absorption functionality.
Isocell HP9 packs 200 million, 0.56 micrometer-sized pixels in a 1/1.4-inch optical format. Samsung mentioned it used a brand new materials to make the high-refractive microlens on the sensor that reinforces its light-gathering functionality by directing extra gentle exactly on the corresponding RGB colour filter. The sensor was developed alongside the development of premium smartphones utilizing bigger wide-angle optical codecs for the primary digicam, which suggests they’ve sufficient room to deal with bigger telephoto sensors, the corporate mentioned.
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The South Korean tech big mentioned this boosted gentle sensitivity by 12% and autofocus contract efficiency by 10% in comparison with its predecessors.
The sensor excels in low-light circumstances because of the corporate’s Tetrapixel expertise that teams 16 pixels into 12MP. 2.24 micrometer-sized sensors to soak up gentle higher for sharper portrait photographs and “dramatic” out-of-focus bokeh results, Samsung mentioned.
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The sensor additionally gives 12x optical zoom when its 4x in-sensor zoom modules are paired with the 3x telephoto zoom module, the corporate added.
In the meantime, Samsung additionally unveiled two new 50MP picture sensors, the Isocell GNJ and the Isocell JN5.
Based on the corporate, Isocell GNJ is a dual-pixel sensor with 50 million, 1 micrometer-sized pixels in a 1/1.57-inch optical format. It’s referred to as twin pixel as a result of every pixel homes two photodiodes for sooner and extra correct autofocus. It additionally makes use of Samsung’s new microlens for higher gentle absorption. Pixels are additionally higher remoted from one another to attenuate crosstalk, permitting for extra exact image-taking.
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Isocell JN5 has 50 million, 0.64 micrometer-sized pixels in a 1/2.76-inch optical format, Samsung mentioned. The sensor has a twin vertical switch gate expertise that will increase cost switch inside pixels to decrease noise and clearer photographs in low-light circumstances. It has the compulsory part detection expertise and enhanced excessive dynamic vary. It’s an all-rounder sensor that can be utilized in principal and sub cameras for wide-angle, ultra-wide-angle, and telephoto.
