With the continuous improvement of smartphone imaging capabilities in recent years, hardware including CMOS image sensor has undergone significant upgrades, among which the pixels of CMOS sensor have been improved from tens of millions to hundreds of millions of levels.
Recently, Samsung Semiconductor officially announced that the new 200 million pixel series sensor product ISOCELL HPX has officially arrived, continuing the smallest 0.56μm pixel of Samsung , bringing a thinner and smaller experience.
So how strong is this sensor and how will it improve the mobile phone image?
is smaller and thinner
Because ISOCELL HPX still continues the smallest single pixel size of 0.56 microns, it can reduce the camera module area by 20%, making the phone body thinner and smaller.
. Through the sixteen pixels integration, ISOCELL HPX can also automatically convert three lighting modes according to light conditions, which also enables it to achieve a better imaging experience under dark light conditions. In addition, ISOCELL HPX also supports faster and more accurate autofocus.
In addition, ISOCELL HPX can select 30fps to shoot 8K videos, supporting seamless dual HDR in 4K and FHD modes. Single-frame progressive HDR supported by intelligent ISO Pro technology can capture shadows and bright light in the scene in three different exposures, low, medium and high according to the shooting environment.
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three exposed photos are merged to present high-quality HDR pictures and videos. In addition, it can allow the sensor to present the picture in more than 4 trillion colors (14-bit color depth), which is 64 times the 68 billion colors (12-bit color depth) of Samsung's previous generation products, and its image strength has indeed been greatly improved.
has a size of 1/1.4, or it may become a mid-range hot commodity
Of course, the disadvantage of this sensor is also very obvious, that is, the size is too small. The size of the
HPX sensor is 1/1.4, which means it is not suitable for a sensor for imaging flagships. After all, the imx 707 of Sony next door is 1/1.28, and the 8-Series and 9-Series are nearly an inch. The saying that the bottom is bigger and the level is crushing people is quite reasonable.
Therefore, HPX 1/1.4 is more like the next generation upgrade of imx766 (1/56). After all, according to previous experience, the final imaging effect of Samsung's sensor will be slightly worse than that of Sony's products of the same level. The slightly larger bottom should still be the same level. Therefore, unless your product itself has a very awesome brand power or algorithm, it is obviously not qualified to use it as a flagship stack.
But such a sensor is excellent in the middle because it has a large foundation and a large number of pixels. It can save a special 2x secondary camera through cropping. With its small and light advantages, it does not require the mid-range machine to be raised, which can bring about thinner mid-to-high-end products.
Who will start?
I'll guess blindly. The Redmi Note12 series released at the end of this month is likely to be the first to release this sensor, for three reasons:
1. The first to release the large-sole high-pixel sensor for mid-range use. The Redmi Note series likes to do it. And according to the previous rules of even stack peripherals (image and appearance) and odd stack performance (SoC), Note12 will upgrade the sensor.
2.Redmi Note recently preheated and mentioned "two handsome new technologies are launched globally". One of them should be fast charging above 200w, and the other is due to the rumor that it would use a 200m pixel sensor, which is likely to be this sensor.
3. Previously, Xiaomi HMX, vivo GNV, Honor GNH, these previous naming methods, HPX X is likely to be customized by Xiaomi (Xiaomi). So I guess I'll see a thinner and higher pixel smartphone equipped with it soon.
