Samsung has unveiled a powerful new smartphone camera sensor with new technology and an incredibly high image resolution, but you won’t soon see it on a Galaxy smartphone.
Combined with Samsung’s existing high-resolution champ, the Isosel HP1’s huge 200-megapixel, the new Isosel HP3 delivers the same pixel resolution in 20% smaller packages. This has been achieved by shrinking the already small 0.64μm pixels of the Isocell HP1 to just 0.56μm – the smallest in the industry, according to Samsung.
This may come as a surprise to many because smaller sensors usually provide worse quality than larger ones However, Samsung has packed in some new technology that it hopes will deliver higher quality despite its reduced size.
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Note that the Ice Universe refers to a second-gen Isocell HP2 sensor, Samsung does not list such sensors in its product list. The tweet is probably referring to the original isocell HP1.
A 200-megapixel camera is a radical proposition for a smartphone, even the 108-megapixel camera of the Galaxy S22 Ultra already seems mind-bogglingly high-resolution for a smartphone. Perhaps this is why Isocell HP1 or Isocell HP3 has not yet appeared on any smartphone camera, although the original Isocell HP1 is expected to debut on a Motorola handset this year.
As is the case with ultra-high-resolution components such as Isocell HP3, the sensor will not be used to produce large 200-megapixel huge photos on a regular basis. The camera will instead use an advanced form of “pixel binning” that combines groups of adjacent pixels to form much larger superpixels.
This technique allows the sensor to combine groups of four pixels to achieve groups of 16 pixels to shoot in a 50-megapixel mode or 12.5-megapixel.
The small size of the Isocell HP3 actually makes it a disadvantage compared to the larger HP1 because its lower surface area reduces the amount of light it can capture. Enables taking pictures in sensitivity settings. According to Samsung, it enables the Isocell HP3 to capture 4 trillion colors (64 times more than its predecessor) while capturing a wider range of motion for HDR images.
The Isocell HP3 also comes with an all-pixel autofocus system called the “Super QPD” from Samsung. While each pixel is capable of assisting in autofocus, no dedicated focus pixel is required and such a system will help avoid autofocus problems such as plaguing the Galaxy S20 Ultra. Super QPD places a single lens on each block of four adjacent pixels using the phase difference between the individual pixel outputs to calculate the focus. Having such a large number of pixels to get started will also help in this case.
The key camera technology for the Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra is probably more exciting than the Isocell HP3. If not the Isocell HP3, Samsung fans could be forgiven for expecting something better from next year’s flagship. Only time will tell.
The Isocell HP3 goes into mass production this year, and read Samsung’s full description Newsroom.
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