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OmniVision has introduced the main points of the OV40A, a 40-megapixel picture sensor designed to be paired with the following era of smartphones.
The 1/1.7” sensor is constructed on OmniVision’s PureCel Plus-S stacked die expertise, options 1.0 micron pixels and affords ‘tremendous excessive achieve and de-noise applied sciences for the best-in-class low gentle digicam efficiency’ for its measurement. OmniVision says the OV40A affords a number of excessive dynamic vary (HDR) choices for each stills and video, in addition to slow-motion video seize as much as 240 frames per second (fps) with part detection autofocus (PDAF).
Just like the 32MP sensor it launched earlier this week, the OV40A makes use of a 4-cell shade filter array and {hardware} remosaic. As well as capturing to 40MP stills at as much as 30 fps, the sensor also can use near-pixel binning to seize 10MP stills at 120 fps for improved low-light efficiency. On the video entrance, the OV40A can report 4K video at as much as 60 fps and 1080p video at as much as 240 fps, all with PDAF.
OmniVision explains, intimately, the high-gain and HDR options discovered within the OV40A:
‘It helps tremendous excessive achieve of as much as 256x, and is embedded with multi-sampling de-noise performance for enhanced low gentle efficiency. This sensor additionally affords glorious HDR by way of selective conversion achieve for the optimum stability between low-light picture high quality and HDR, together with 2- and 3-exposure staggered HDR timing.’
There’s no phrase on what smartphone producers may use OmniVision’s OV40A sensor. OmniVision sensors are usually utilized in mid-to-lower-range units, attributable to their decrease price in comparison with sensors from Sony and Samsung, however they’ve popped up in HTC and Motorola units previously.
