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January 24, 2012 02:26 am GMT

Sony Claims New RGBW Sensors Improve Exposure, Low-Light Performance

stackedSony has announced a new line of image sensors that will, in all likelihood, end up in dozens of smartphone models. The improvement is not in megapixels, which have more or less hit a ceiling, but in the actual layout of the light-sensitive wells that make up the pixels in the image.The new sensors have, in addition to the usual red, green, and blue-filtered pixels, an unfiltered pixel element as well that will accept any wavelength of light. It can't be used to determine color, but it will add (they say) to both sensitivity and brightness. Essentially what they're doing is including a hard luminance-detecting element. This is good, much more accurate than taking the average from the RGB elements, and should in fact make low-light photography significantly better.

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