Samsung ISOCELL delivers image quality that is on par with 1.12μm-pixel image sensors.
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The ISOCELL technology strikingly reduces unwanted color transfer of neighboring pixels by adding physical obstacle between each pixel. The smaller pixel size will help mobile devices to be slimmer than they have been in the past, as cameras with larger sensors are often the reason behind smartphones being bulkier than they otherwise would have been.
Samsung has skilled the trial by useful a different, amazingly smallish 16-megapixel photograph sensing unit.
Announced this morning, Samsung has begun mass production of the industry’s first mobile image sensor using 1.0μm pixels.
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (LON:BC94) has revealed the world’s first 1.0 micrometer 16 megapixel CMOS image sensor, which is a significant advance in the field and could be used on the company’s new Galaxy S7 smartphone. This ultimately means you can have a superior camera sensor, even in a very thin device.
Samsung also mentions that the new, slimmer camera module (it’s just 5mm tall) could lead to different design options for manufacturers.
The new sensor (pictured left), named the S5K3P3, uses Samsung’s ISOCELL technology to enable the use of such tiny pixels, reducing the overall size and height of the image sensor module found in a device’s camera by as much as 20 percent.
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As a result, Samsung’s smartphone cameras won’t need to protrude so severely in future. This results in higher color fidelity even in dimly-lit conditions, as it essentially increases light sensitivity and explicitly controls the collection of photons. We employ 319,000 people across 84 countries with annual sales of US $196 billion.
