Highest dynamic range image sensor for mobile phones
OMNIVISION has introduced its OV50X CMOS image sensor, providing the mobile phone industry with the highest dynamic range for movie-grade video capture. The sensor incorporates the company’s TheiaCel™ technology to deliver best-in-class photos and videos in all lighting conditions, both day and night.
The OV50X is a 50-megapixel (MP) image sensor with a 1.6 µm pixel size in a 1-inch optical format. It is designed for flagship smartphones that require high-dynamic-range (HDR) video and preview with a single exposure, excellent low-light performance, fast autofocus, and high frame rates.
The OV50X supports 4-cell binning for 12.5MP at 180 frames per second (fps) and 60 fps with three-channel HDR. It offers premium-quality 8K video with dual analogue gain (DAG) HDR and on-sensor crop zoom. TheiaCel™ technology further expands single exposure HDR close to 110 dB — the highest range possible in smartphones. The sensor also supports 100% coverage quad phase detection (QPD) for best-in-class autofocus performance. The OV50X is built on PureCel®Plus-S stacked-die technology, enabling excellent low-light performance.
“Smartphones are used in the majority of video and photo capture today, and cinematic-quality video recording has become a highly demanded feature among consumers for flagship mobile phones,” said Takuritsu Li, Marketing Manager at OMNIVISION. “Our OV50X image sensor was designed with the professional videographer and photographer in mind, featuring a large 1-inch optical format image sensor that provides close to 110 dB single-exposure HDR. Consumers can now own a smartphone capable of superior video and photo capture around the clock, even in challenging capture conditions such as sunrise, sunset, nighttime with bright lights, or overcast days.”
The OV50X image sensor is sampling now and will be in mass production in Q3 2025.
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