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| Sony is developing a new image sensor |
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| Sony is developing a new image sensor |
Sony today announced a new smartphone camera sensor technology that has been developed for Oppo X2 and will be launched in March. It will be a competitor for the next Samsung Galaxy S11.
After the U.S. imposed restrictions on Google's export of Android to Huawei, companies such as OnePlus, Oppo, Vivo, and Xiaomi made progress and worked hard to tap the market to take advantage of the market vacuum to introduce new technology and to attract troop design.
Sony calls the sensor a 2 x 2 chip lens, which will be used with phones (OPPO X2) and can be used with another phone next year. It brings PDAF with unidirectional pixel autofocus technology to cell phones, a new way to instantly focus and refocus technology even in low light conditions.
The sensor itself cannot function in HD like the Samsung Tetracell series, which reaches 64MP and 108MP. Instead, Sony made it clear that the new CMOS-PDAF image sensor is the first to use a 2 x 2-chip lens architecture with a 48-megapixel sensor.
The new sensor uses the Quad Bayer filter matrix, in which high-resolution images are captured by pixel merging. By changing from a single-pixel matrix per pixel to a multi-pixel lens matrix at the same time, Sony managed to eliminate slight differences in light sensitivity between individual pixels, where HDR settings and performance reduce the possibility of noise in some cases.