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Samsung introduced a new photo sensor
Samsung has released a demonstration of its new ISOCELL Zoom Anyplace technology in action, which uses a high-resolution 200 MP (200 megapixel) sensor to perform some interesting video zoom tricks. The feature can “simultaneously capture the entire field of view and magnified parts of the video” and record and automatically track a moving subject within the frame.
Although the company declined to comment on which phones will be the first to feature the new Zoom Anyplace feature, it's more than obvious that it will be first built into the Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra phone, which is expected to launch early next year. The S24 Ultra is said to be equipped with the 200 MP sensor required for this function - a similar main sensor is also in this year's Galaxy S23 Ultra. Samsung's promotional video mentions that the feature is "accelerated by the Qualcomm AI Engine" while showing the logo for the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 processor that will surely power the latest Samsung flagships.
Samsung isn't the first company to come up with this kind of zoom feature. The Solo Cut Mode feature on the Honor 90 was similar. But while Honor's implementation of the feature was limited to the resolution of both videos at 1080p, Samsung says that its version will allow recording in 4K, even at 4x enlargements.
Zoom Anyplace will also allow you to zoom in while taking a shot, and Samsung claims that it should also work on subjects that will be on the edge of the frame or image. Last month, at the Samsung System LSI Tech Day 2023 event, Samsung introduced the feature with its 200MP ISOCELL HP2 sensor, which it announced in January 2023.
In addition to ISOCELL Zoom Anyplace, Samsung also details a feature it calls “End-to-End (E2E) AI Remosaic,” which it says will help cut processing times for 200MP images in half. The process adjusts image processing by performing “remosaicing” and performs all image signal processing processes in parallel rather than sequentially. The company says this should also reduce data loss due to latency, which in turn means we can expect photos with "richer detail and color."
Samsung's press release doesn't include any information on when the features will roll out in practice, but the company is said to be preparing to launch the Galaxy S24 line as early as next January. At the link https://youtu.be/qNVOysZsJfE you can watch a promotional clip of the new Samsung sensor.
