Last September, Samsung announced the ISOCELL HP1 mobile image sensor for smartphone cameras. Its resolution sets ISOCELL HP1 apart from Samsung’s other impressive image sensors. The sensor has a 200MP resolution, which is the highest on a smartphone. Samsung’s current flagship smartphones include a 100MP image sensor, which is still extremely high for a smartphone and far more than the 12MP sensors found in Apple’s popular iPhone lineup.
To display its ISOCELL HP1 image sensor, Samsung has printed Picture a huge 616 square meters (2,021 square feet). The image is 28 meters wide and 22 meters high, which is about one and a half times the size of a basketball court.
“I’ve always wondered how big you can be when it comes to printing 200MP images,” said Minhuk Lee, an engineer with the sensor solutions team at Samsung’s LSI Business Systems. “As exciting as it was, the challenge was a contender, because it was our first time to demonstrate the quality of an image sensor that has not yet been adopted on smartphones.”
The 200MP image sensor is still under development and has not found its way into Samsung’s consumer products. The team chose to photograph a cat because the team wanted to test the image sensor with an ongoing subject, and they decided that a cat would allow them to show a lot of detail. Also, it is a ‘popular photography subject.’ Win around.
Pictures were captured using a test board. Once the composition is aligned, the engineers change the settings for focus and exposure and then capture multiple photos. Photographer Hyun Jung Kim said: ‘I couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw the raw image 100% enlarged. I was really amazed by the degree of detail. At the time, I knew that any preconceived notions about smartphone photography had been disproved. ‘
The 200MP image sensor will provide benefits outside of pure resolution. By capturing an image with many pixels, users have a lot of flexibility for cropping and digital zoom without sacrificing image quality. 200MP is also enough for versatile 8K video recording, of course.
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The ISOCELL HP1 can record full-resolution 16,384 x 12,288 pictures up to 7.5 frames per second. If you need more speed, the sensor can capture 50MP images up to 30fps and 12.5MP images at 120fps. The image sensor includes Samsung’s proprietary Chameleonsell technology that allows for a variety of pixel binding methods, including 4-to-1 and 16-to-1 for improved low-light performance at a cost of megapixels. In our original coverage, we wrote, ‘The HP1 sensor uses a color filter array where each primary color covers 4 x 4 group photodiodes (effectively a 12MP bare pattern). The camera then interpolates missing R, G or B values in this 4×4 region in its high-resolution mode, which is called Samsung’s ‘re-mosaicing’ algorithm. This algorithm has been trained to use machine learning to produce more logical results than simple mathematical interpolation.
ISOCELL HP1 may soon find its way to smartphones. Last week, Motorola teased a new smartphone with a 200MP camera Despite the lack of details before the July announcement, Motorola will likely adopt ISOCELL HP1 for its 200MP smartphone. Click here for more information on upcoming Motorola smartphones and Samsung’s 200MP image sensor.
