Apparently, somebody in Sony’s camera-phone department didn’t get a megapixel memo. While pixel-counts in genuine cameras have been timorous in preference of bigger, improved, more supportive pixels, cellphone cams seems to be muscle action in some-more as well as tinier photo-sites.

The sensor is the 16.41 Megapixel Exmor R, a little back-illuminated CMOS sensor written to boost a spec-sheet of any phone it is pressed into. Exmor is Sony’s photo-processing engine, used in its cameras and seen here in a cellphone-cam for the initial time.

In better headlines, Sony has additionally come with a “industry’s smallest as well as thinnest” lens procedure, that could lead to improved camera in things similar to a iPod Touch. These modules have auto-focus and have been written for a brand-new Exmor sensors.

But behind to those pixels. Sony is actually unapproachable which it has the smallest pixels in the universe: 1.12μm, if you’re counting (and you have been. It has mitigated the light as well as color-bleeding problems of jamming so most little photodiodes so tighten together by inventing “a singular arrangement of print diodes optimally written for excellent pixel structure.” What this means is less sound as well as aloft sensitivity. Here’s the design:

That design is taken underneath undiluted lighting in the college of music. Don’t expect results similar to these in the streets during dusk.

I suspect I personally similar to these funny announcements. In squeezing ever some-more pixels into ever tinier spaces, Sony makes advances which will have correct cameras improved. And it’s not stopping, possibly. Sony charcoal only invested 40 billion Yen ($485 million) in a Kumamoto Technology Center to have some-more CMOS chips.

Sony commercializes world’s first 16.41 Megapixe sensors for mobile phones [Sony]