Samsung is one of the leading sensor developers in the mobile market. The South Korean stands out for offering striking solutions that increasingly seek to push the limits of size by optimizing the light that reaches the sensor. This time Samsung wants to show that it can beat its own record and introduces a new 200 MP mobile sensor.
The new ISOCELL HP1 sensor was developed to include the most striking technologies that the company has incorporated lately. Among these, the ISOCELL 2.0 technology that the company explained at the beginning of the year is the key to this advance. As we mentioned in March, this technology has a new encapsulation process of the pixels in the sensor which allows a better capture of light and which, in turn, allows each pixel to be separated in order to obtain a higher resolution in MP without losing overall image quality. This technology provides benefits in phase detection autofocus systems and light harvesting.
Likewise, the sensor has an image coupling technology that varies between 2×2 or 4×4 coupling readings. This means that the sensor captures the light in maximum resolution, but as the scene darkens, the resolution drops to a quarter resolution (50 MP) in 2×2 coupling; and finally to one sixteenth of the total resolution (12.5 MP) with the 4×4 pixel coupling. Thanks to this, low light conditions are compensated for a well-exposed, digital noise-free image.
The amount of 200 MP is the most striking thing about the sensor. While a higher number of megapixels does not mean higher image quality, if you can take advantage of high resolutions to obtain specific images. Cutouts can be made over sections of the image to replace the telephoto lens. Compression techniques can also be used to obtain images with greater perception of sharpness. Everything will depend on the optical system that accompanies the sensor.
As Engadget reports, it is difficult to know if we will see the new sensor applied in an upcoming smartphone model. However, there is hope that it will make its appearance in the next flagship, as the company’s Exynos 2100 processor has the capacity to support it.
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