Samsung's new camera sensor will save development time for smartphone makers

Last updated: May 3rd, 2018 at 09:48 UTC+01:00

Given that Samsung has already achieved a dominant position in the DRAM and NAND flash memory market, the company now wants to dominate the paradigm sensor market besides. Information technology was recently reported that Samsung is going to increase the production chapters of its image sensors as it wants to dethrone Sony every bit the global leader in the paradigm sensor market.

Samsung today announced the launch of a new prototype sensor which it says is going to salvage valuable evolution time for smartphone makers. The company's new xvi-megapixel ISOCELL Slim 3P9 sensor offers a "Plug & Play" solution which Samsung says can save upwards to iv months of development time for manufacturers. This gives smartphone manufacturers an incentive to opt for Samsung'due south sensors and thus aids the company in achieving its aim of dominating the prototype sensor market.

New sensor is readily available for smartphone manufacturers

Samsung's new 16-megapixel ISOCELL Slim 3P9 image sensor with Plug and Play solution is a pre-optimized turnkey camera module that will expedite time-to-market for clients. It'due south a 1.0μm with Tetracell applied science which will enable sleekly designed smartphones to accept brilliant and brilliant pictures.

Tetracell applied science merges four neighboring pixels thus enabling the module to effectively part as a 2.0μm image sensor for front-facing cameras that can accept brighter pictures in nighttime environments.

The sensor has an advanced phase detection auto-focus with doubled auto-focus amanuensis density for faster auto-focusing. It also has a gyro-synchronizer which stabilizes images and video by syncing the frame exposure time from the sensor with motility data from the device's gyroscope.

To reduce development time for manufacturers, Samsung offers them an ISOCELL Plug and Play solution for the sensor in a rear camera module forth with other components such every bit actuators and lenses from preferred partners. It does all of the optimization and reliability tests at the module-level so that manufacturers tin simply plug the camera into their devices and exist gear up to ship.

Smartphone manufacturers can source the new photographic camera sensor from Samsung right away.