OmniVision unveiled a large 1/1.3″ sensor for flagship smartphone cameras. The OV48C is the same size as Samsung’s 108MP sensor, but keeps the resolution at 48MP – this makes for large 1.2µm pixels, compared to the 0.8µm pixels of the Samsung sensor.
The OmniVision sensor has a 4-cell color filter (i.e. Quad Bayer) and hardware remosaicing, which can either output full resolution 48MP images or a use pixel binning for 12MP images with effective 2.4µm pixels.
Video modes include 8K output without binning and 4K/60fps video with binning. Slow motion modes are supported too, 240fps at…
