Samsung ISOCELL HP3 Details
The ISOCELL HP3 packs 200 million pixels in a 1/1.4” optical format and comes with the smallest pixels, allowing OEMs to keep their phones slim. The camera sensor’s diameter of the area enables a 20% smaller camera module surface area. That said, Omnivision has already unveiled a sensor with 0.56-micron pixels recently.
Besides the smallest pixel size, the ISOCELL HP3 comes with a few intriguing camera capabilities. The highlighting one is a Super QPD auto-focusing solution, which provides auto-focus powers to all of the sensor’s pixels. This functionality also uses a single lens instead of four-adjacent pixels for the detection of phase differences in both horizontal and vertical directions. This allows for more accurate and quicker auto-focusing.
For better low-light photography, the HP3 sensor comes with the Tetra pixel technology, which merges four pixels into one to convert the 0.56-micron 200MP sensor into the 1.12-micron 50MP sensor. It can also combine 16 pixels into one and convert it into a 2.24-micron 12.5MP sensor.
There’s also support for an improved Smart-ISO Pro for improved dynamic range. This feature supports triple ISO mode (low, mid, high) to widen the sensor’s dynamic range. It can also produce up to 4 trillion 14-bit colors. Additionally, the ISOCELL HP3 sensor comes with support for 8K at 30fps or 4K at 120fps.
The Samsung ISOCELL HP3 sensor will be mass-produced this year and we can expect it to ship with the Galaxy S23 series next year.
