Sony Announces a New Type 1/2.6 22.5 Megapixel Exmor RS, the Industrys First Stacked CMOS Image Sensor with Built-in Hybrid Autofocus and 3-Axis Electronic Image Stabilization

Sony Corporation ("Sony") is revealing the commercialization of a brand-new Exmor RS image sensor for mobile phones and other devices that need significantly better cams and thinner factors. The IMX318 is a type 1/2.6 stacked CMOS image sensor with 22.5 effective megapixels, and it boasts a more compact size, higher image quality, and higher performance. This new Exmor RS is the industry's first1 to be equipped with integrated high-speed hybrid autofocus ("AF"), as fast as 0.03 seconds, and built-in 3-axis electronic image stabilization technology for video. Sony aims to start shipments for this brand-new CMOS image sensor in May, 2016.

With this, the image sensing unit achieves a compact, type 1/2.6 size appropriate for inclusion into mobile phones, while still realizing a high resolution of 22.5 reliable megapixels, amongst the top in the industry. With this image sensor, the user can capture image stills of those decisive minutes reliably in high quality, as well as high resolution video without fear of blur.

Main Features

1. The market's tiniest system pixel size at 1.0 m, attaining compact size (type 1/2.6) while realizing 22.5 reliable megapixels high resolution

As smartphones grow ever thinner, so too are image sensing units growing increasingly more compact. In line with this trend, Sony has established a small 1.0 m pixel sensing unit that, regardless of its little size, realizes high image quality. To achieve this, Sony employed making innovation that improves light usage performance, in addition to circuit design innovation that eliminates noise, an origin of wear and tear in image quality. With this development, Sony has actually understood an image sensor that provides high quality images, while also boasting small optical size and a high resolution of 22.5 megapixels. Night shots have actually long been a powerlessness for the compact cams used in mobile phones, with the lack of light equating into extreme visual noise. The IMX318 addresses this weakness and realizes stunning photography in nighttime conditions.

2. The market's first1 image sensing unit with integrated hybrid AF, as quick as 0.03 seconds2, and 3-axis electronic image stabilization

Hybrid AF

Hybrid AF, which combines image airplane phase detection AF with contrast detection AF, has actually previously been understood through the mix of an image sensing unit and an application processor. With the IMX318, Sony has developed the industry's first1 stacked CMOS image sensor with hybrid AF constructed into the sensor's internal signal processor. The IMX318 leverages Sony's high-speed AF innovation that has been developed over several years, boasting an AF as fast as 0.03 seconds2 (and as fast as 0.017 seconds when shooting video at 60fps). With this power in hand, the user can catch those decisive moments dependably in focus, whether shooting stills or video

3-axis electronic image stabilization for video.

With the IMX318, Sony has likewise created the industry's first1 stacked CMOS image sensor with image stabilization functionality constructed into its internal signal processor. This sensing unit leverages the image stabilization innovation that Sony has actually cultivated over its years developing electronic cameras, realizing smooth 4K videos with little cam shake by making efficiently use of the signal output gotten from the external 3-axis (pitch, yaw, and roll) gyro sensor. Sony's unique image stabilization innovation included into the IMX318 corrects not only video camera shake, but likewise lens distortion, making for more beautiful videos. Because image stabilization is achieved by processing within the hardware of the image sensing unit, less power is utilized than when it is accomplished by software processing in the external application processor. Since it allows smooth video shooting, this image sensing unit is fit for incorporation into not just smartphones, however likewise a range of other items that have the tendency to generate substantial video camera shake, such as aerial drones utilized for image capture.

3 4K and high frame rate video recording, through high-speed communications leveraging the most recent MIPI specifications

Sony elected to adopt the MIPI (Mobile Industry Processor Interface) Alliance's newest C-PHY 1.0/ D-PHY 1.2 specs for this image sensing unit's user interface. Because the image sensing unit can transfer greater-than-4K resolution images for all pixels to the application processor, the user can capture 22.5 megapixel still images even while in the middle of taping video in 4K3 at 30fps.

*Exmor RS and are trademarks of Sony Corporation.