Samsung has registered a new trademark, which has had the effect of speculating whether the company is working on a 450 megapixel camera sensor.
A bit of backstory is that the existing sensor ISOCELL HP1 can switch between 50MP and 200MP through something called binning which is about combining multiple pixels into one pixel. In the 50MP mode, 4 pixels (2×2 pixels) are combined and in 200MP, 16 pixels (4×4 pixels) are combined, with the latter named Tetra2Pixel after the Greek counting word for four.
The trademark that Samsung has registered is Hexa2pixel, which according to the same scheme should mean combining 32 pixels (6×6 pixel binning), which means that such a sensor would end up at 450MP. As you know, hexa is the Greek counting word for six.
So far, however, it’s all about speculation, because even if the brand is genuine, it doesn’t say anything about what it actually entails.
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