Sony's New Slim Image Sensor for Next-Gen Cameras

Bangalore: Sony has unveiled its new back-illuminated CMOS image sensor which is made for next generation cameras, smartphones and other mobile devices to produce high-quality images. This new sensor comes in a slimmer and more efficient form than current CMOS image sensors in the market.

"The popularization of smartphones and other devices in recent years has been accompanied by an increasingly diverse use of camera functionality," Sony said in a statement Monday. "This has brought heightened demand for more sophisticated cameras, to ensure adaptability to a wider range of scenes, and Sony developed this stacked CMOS image sensor to meet such demand."

This new stacked CMOS image sensor features; Large-scale signal processing circuits required for higher image quality and better functionality are built-in, More compact image sensor chip size, Even higher image quality of the pixel section by adopting manufacturing processes specialized for superior image quality, Faster speeds and lower power consumption by adopting the leading process for the circuit section.

The new sensor has Sony’s RGBW Coding technology which gives lower noise and low-light image capture. It also has High Dynamic Range (HDR) Movie functionality to maintain color capture in bright lighting conditions. The samples of this new technology will start its shipment by March, said Sony.