According to Japanese news, Sony Semiconductor announced today that its LYTIA image sensor brand has cooperated with OPPO and combined with OPPO’s super light and shadow image engine to jointly launch the LYTIA image sensor with double-layer transistor pixel technology.
Sony Semiconductor claims that it is “defining the next generation of sensors with computational light and shadow,” and OPPO claims that it is “the next era of computational photography.
This “double-layer transistor pixel” is not something new, Sony Semiconductor as early as 2021 announced the debut of this technology, and this year successfully used in the Sony Xperia 1 V flagship phone.
“Dual-layer transistor pixels” have a photodiode in the first layer and a pixel transistor in the second layer, which together capture more light and reduce image noise, avoiding underexposure and overexposure in environments with a combination of bright and dim lighting (e.g., backlit environments), and even in low-light (e.g., indoors, at night) environments. Even in low-light (e.g., indoors, at night) environments, high-quality, low-noise images can be obtained.
The cooperation between OPPO and Sony means that OPPO’s new phone is also expected to usher in the “double transistor pixel” main camera and we can look forward to the results of the image.
It is worth mentioning that OPPO previously developed its own image-specific NPU chip called Mariana X, but with the termination of Tetsuku’s self-developed chip business, OPPO’s choice to cooperate with other manufacturers seems to be a better choice.
Blogger @WHYLAB said OPPO Find N3 main camera will debut this LYTIA image sensor LYT800, 1/1.43″, 53MP, parameters and IMX888 similar to the back of the vivo X100 series also previewed will use this new Sensor.
