Samsung has been one of the industry’s leaders when it comes to smartphone camera hardware. The South Korean tech giant has set several standards in smartphone category with its camera snappers that sport massive pixels. Look at the 64MP and 108MP sensor, for example.
The company is scaling back to iron out on a few issues with smartphone cameras. On Tuesday, Samsung announced the industry’s first 0.7-micrometer (μm)-pixel image sensor – the smallest pixel size ever seen in the smartphone world. The sensor is termed as the 43.7MP ISOCELL GH1 sensor.
Samsung says the new sensor is ideally made for slim full-display devices. For the record, Samsung was also launched the industry’s first 1.0μm-pixel image sensor, and the most recently, 0.8μm ultra-high-resolution image sensor stack in the 64MP and 108MP ISOCELL snappers.
“We are pleased to deliver yet another breakthrough with the industry’s first 0.7μm pixel image sensor, the ISOCELL Slim GH1 that will enable sleeker and more streamlined designs as well as excellent imaging experiences in tomorrow’s smartphones,” said Yongin Park, executive vice president of the sensor business at Samsung Electronics.
The company says the new ISOCELL Plus technology was highly leveraged which cuts much of the color cross-talk and optical loss. Plus, pairing this with the smallest pixel size, ensures sufficient light is absorbed to produce amazing photos that are “bright and vivid.”
In low light conditions, GH1 has been backed with a pixel-merging Tetracell technology for higher light sensitivity that is equivalent to that of a 1.4μm-pixel image sensor.
Samsung’s ISOCELL Slim GH1 has a high res of 7,968×5,480 and can shoot 4K videos with minimum loss in field of view (FoV). The sensor is also equipped with gyro-based electronic image stabilization (EIS) and auto-focus technology.
Samsung says their new sensor is expected to be mass-produced by the end of 2019.
