Samsung has been pushing the envelope of smartphone camera sensors, becoming among the first in the world to come out with a 108MP phone camera sensor. Not just resolution – some of the key advancements brought forth by the 108MP sensor include combining nine individual pixels to create one large pixel, and more importantly, a much larger sensor size that automatically adds better imaging capabilities to the smartphone camera. Continuing on this note, Samsung has seemingly shown off a purported schematic of a staggering 600MP ISOCELL sensor, which would be considerably larger than 1-inch camera sensors.
Before we get all excited, it is important to note that this isn’t quite a pre-production variant, or one that has already made it to assembly chains. The schematic was presented at the recent Samsung Investors Forum 2020, where a slide titled ‘ISOCELL as a solution’ seemingly showed the possibility of a 600MP smartphone camera sensor. The slide was shared by popular tipster Ice Universe on Twitter, and shows Samsung exploring the key benefits of such a high resolution sensor, as well as the difficulties of implementing it.
Samsung is really doing 600MP sensors! pic.twitter.com/vGgsfxsGGh
— Ice universe (@UniverseIce) December 5, 2020
In terms of advantages, such a massive sensor will offer a much larger sensor surface area, which will significantly improve a smartphone camera’s low light capabilities, as well as the overall ability to capture raw details without relying on software driven computational photography. The sensor size will further allow the camera firmware to crop into it, therefore increasing the overall fidelity of zoom on smartphone cameras, as well as enable it to produce professional grade 4K and 8K videos. Issues such as moire and aliasing, which are more persistent with smaller cameras, can be potentially solved with such a massive sensor here. Furthermore, having a 600MP sensor may allow for higher grades of pixel binning, hence further adding to HDR (high dynamic range) photography, HDR videography and other advanced aspects such as sports photography-grade burst shots.
However, Samsung also states in the slide that if a 600MP sensor was made today with 0.8um pixel size, the resultant camera bump from the sensor alone would increase a phone’s width to 22mm. For reference, the average width of a smartphone today is around 9.5mm, with the thinnest phones around measuring just above 7mm and the thicker ones not going beyond 10.5-11mm. A 600MP sensor on a phone would also take up as much as 12 percent of the smartphone’s entire area, which would be a roadblock in terms of ergonomics, fitting everything in the motherboard, and more.
While all of this sounds rather theoretical, Samsung also states in its slide that “ISOCELL will evolve to solve the problem of the camera bump”. This largely suggests that Samsung might indeed be working on such smartphone camera technology in its R&D labs right now, and even though a potential product launch with a 600MP camera on it may be far away in the distant future, one can never be too sure that the idea of such massively high resolution sensors is entirely experimental, and unusable in production.
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