The Samsung ISOCELL HP1 offers industry-first 200MP phone
sensor with pixel binning trick that's perfect for shooting 8K. Samsung has
officially announced that it is producing a mobile phone sensor with a whopping
200 megapixels - setting a new record for cellphone camera resolution. The
Samsung Isocell HP1 uses photosites that measure just 0.64μm across - the same
size as found in Samsung's own JN1 50MP chip that was introduced earlier this
year.
The jump in pixel count is designed to use with Samsung's
improved pixel binning technology - that clusters photosites together to
increase image performance. The company says that its all-new ChameleonCell
technology deploys a pixel-binning algorithm that uses a two-by-two,
four-by-four or full pixel layout depending on the environment. Furthermore, in
lowlight, the HP1 transforms into a 12.5MP image sensor with large 2.56μm
pixels by merging 16 neighboring pixels.
The Isocell HP1 image sensor can shoot 8K videos at 30fps
with minimum loss in the field of view, the company says, by merging four
neighboring pixels to bring the resolution down to 50MP or 8,192 x 6,144 to
take 8K (7,680 x 4,320) videos without the need to crop or scale down the full
image resolution.
The new 200 megapixel sensor is already expected to be used
in Xiaomi's next flagship mobile phone, according to recent rumors. There has
also been speculation that Samsung may use this new sensor on the Samsung
Galaxy S22 Ultra, that industry pundits expect to be announced later this year
- but could well not actually be put into action by Samsung until 2022.
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