Sony unveils Lytia 901, a 200MP 1/1.12″ type smartphone camera sensor | Infinium-tech

Sony’s long-awaited entry into the 200MP smartphone camera game is finally here. The new LiTea 901 sensor has been made official today, and it will compete with Samsung’s 200MP offering.

Sony’s sensor is of the 1/1.12″ type, with a 14.287 mm diagonal. It is tuned to achieve “high-definition image quality” even with 4x in-sensor zoom. Its pixel size is 0.7 μm. It employs a quad-quad Bayer coding (QQBC) array in which 4×4 adjacent pixels are clustered with filters of the same color. A signal pixel of 16 Processed as a single unit shooting at 12.5MP.

With in-sensor zoom, remosaic turns the clustered pixels into a normal array. It is AI-enhanced by a special processing circuit inside the sensor, which is a first in the industry. Sony promises “improved reproduction of details such as fine patterns and letters”, as well as “high-speed processing and high-quality video capture at up to 30fps when shooting in 4K with 4x zoom.”

You also get high dynamic range and tonal expression up to 4x across the entire zoom range thanks to DCG-HDR and Fine12bit ADC technology, the latter improving quantization bit depth from the traditional 10 bits to 12. And with Hybrid Frame HDR (HF-HDR), you get over 100dB higher dynamic range performance in QQBC mode. Expect significantly suppressed highlight blowouts in bright areas, as well as blackouts in dark areas, for images that “more closely resemble what the human eye actually sees”.

The sensor supports video capture at 8K30fps and 4K120fps, as well as 60fps burst shooting at 12.5MP, 30fps at 50MP, and 200fps at 10MP. According to previous rumors, the Lithium 901 will be adopted by Oppo for the Find X9 Ultra and by Vivo for the X300 Ultra, and we are sure that other manufacturers will also use it. The sensors are being shipped to device manufacturers this month.

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