Samsung recently held its annual investors forum in which he presented his latest work. The technology was part BRITECELL. This is a new sensor and certainly the one we find on board of Samsung’s flagships in 2016, Galaxy S7 in mind.
Samsung could integrate a new type of image sensor S7 Galaxy. The name BRITECELL was recorded earlier this month. It remains now to know what it actually returns because if the name suggests that the gain will be sought in the management of brightness, it tells us no more about the mechanisms used and the properties of the sensor. Several assumptions were made based on rumors circulating on the flagship but we expected the explanation Korean to sort. There it is.
A private presentation, initially at least
It is in the context of its annual Investor Forum that he data. In other words, it was not for us but, as so often, information filtered. In fact, it is even the whole presentation that was filtered through Teletogether , the teleconference operator called up by Samsung for the occasion. On its site are available the different slides past during the event and a recording and a transcript of everything that was said.
ISOCELL BRITECELL = + RWB filter
So what BRITECELL? This is in fact an improved version of the ISOCELL. The separations between each pixel, to avoid the “blunders” , are present here too, like phase-detection autofocus. The difference is that the color filters are changed. The layout leaves room for traditional RGB RWB: red, white and blue. More green, so. He was replaced by white in order to allow in more light. A first. We are more used to seeing white in addition to other (RGBW) rather than their place, such as Huawei
So and Samsung intends to improve sensitivity to light and not by reducing the resolution increase the size of the pixels. Moreover, the sensor BRITECELL spoke at the forum has 20 million pixels with a size of 1 micron, against 16 million pixels of 1.12 microns for ISOCELL sensor S6 and the Galaxy Note 5. It is therefore even just the opposite. Hopefully this new filter will actually be compensated, and even improve, sensitivity, without deteriorating the color reproduction despite the loss of the green filter. Note that it is also accompanied by an enhanced HDR mode and baptized WDR.
The examples give Samsung a clear advantage in the face of conventional sensors BRITECELL but we are still suspicious of the images of the manufacturers. Better to wait until the first smartphone equipped to judge. This will certainly be the Galaxy S7.
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