Samsung’s most versatile picture sensor gives 50Mp choices for each entrance and rear-facing cameras
Combined pixel know-how developments scale back chip measurement whereas enhancing mild sensitivity and section detection capabilities
Samsung Electronics, a world chief in superior semiconductor know-how, immediately launched the business’s first 0.64-micrometer (μm)-pixel picture sensor, the 50-megapixel (Mp) Samsung ISOCELL JN1. Equipped with the most recent pixel applied sciences resembling enhanced ISOCELL 2.0, Smart-ISO and Double Super PDAF, the JN1 can seize extra vivid photographs on the business’s smallest 50Mp cellular sensor.
“Samsung’s advanced pixel technologies have once again pushed boundaries with the utmost precision to develop an image sensor with the industry’s smallest pixel size, yet with powerful performance. The new ISOCELL JN1 at 0.64μm will be able to equip tomorrow’s sleekest smartphones with ultra-high resolution mobile photographs,” mentioned Duckhyun Chang, govt vice chairman of the sensor enterprise at Samsung Electronics. “As we drive our commitment to innovation in pixel technologies, we will continue to bring a wide range of mobile image sensor offerings to the market.”
A brand new addition to Samsung’s high-resolution picture sensor lineup, the JN1 employs ISOCELL 2.Zero know-how with added enhancements that enhance mild sensitivity by round 16-percent. For low-light environments, the sensor makes use of Samsung’s four-to-one pixel binning know-how, Tetrapixel, which merges 4 adjoining 0.64μm-pixels into one massive 1.28μm-pixel to quadruple mild sensitivity for brighter 12.5Mp pictures.
With such superior applied sciences all embedded in a small half.76-inch optical format, the ISOCELL JN1 is essentially the most versatile picture sensor but from Samsung. Through shut collaboration with ecosystem companions, the JN1 is appropriate with current half.8-inch merchandise, permitting the sensor for use for front-facing, ultra-wide or telephoto cameras, along with commonplace extensive digicam choices. This implies that customers can take extremely detailed selfies or group photos in a tremendous 50Mp decision, in addition to high-resolution video at as much as 4K and high-zoom ratios. The smaller sensor may also scale back the peak of the digicam module by round 10-percent, minimizing the digicam bulge for slimmer and extra streamlined designs in next-generation smartphones.
For enhanced dynamic vary, the ISOCELL JN1 comes with Smart-ISO, a know-how that adjustments the conversion acquire based mostly on the surroundings’s illumination stage. Smart-ISO makes use of Low ISO mode in shiny settings to retain element within the highlights, and High ISO in low-lit environments to cut back readout noise and generate glorious low-light efficiency. Using Smart-ISO, the JN1 additionally gives inter-scene HDR in mixed-light settings for optimum publicity ranges derived from two separate readouts, from Low and High ISOs, which are merged to create a last picture.
For sooner auto-focus, the ISOCELL JN1 integrates improved Double Super PD. The earlier Super PD know-how used specifically designed oval-shaped micro-lenses over two adjoining pixels organized aspect by aspect to detect phases. Double Super PD options twice the density of pixels (1/16) used for section detection than Super PD (1/32), enabling the identical auto-focus efficiency even in environments with about 60-percent much less illumination ranges. For clean crystal-clear movies, the picture sensor helps as much as 4K decision video recording at 60 frames-per-second (fps) or full HD at 240fps.
The Samsung ISOCELL JN1 is at the moment in mass manufacturing.
* Editor’s Note: Actual efficiency could fluctuate relying on gadget and person surroundings.
* Samsung first introduced its ISOCELL know-how in 2013, which reduces shade crosstalk between pixels by inserting a bodily barrier, permitting small-sized pixels to attain greater shade…
