We still don’t know for sure what the new Galaxy S24 family will look like (although, due to lack of rumors, it won’t) and Samsung is already targeting the next generations. If a few hours ago we knew that the Korean firm was going to use artificial intelligence to transcribe calls in real time, now we are talking about integration of AI into the sensors of their future mobile phones with a single objective: photographing the invisible.
Towards humanoid sensors
This information comes from Business Korea and refers to the collaboration of Samsung Electronics and SK hynix in this project and their respective progress in this area. The objective? The marketing of “humanoid sensors” capable of detecting and reproducing human senses with functions such as capturing the invisible by 2027. But one thing is the highlight of these sensors and another is that we will see them in the mobile portfolio of the Korean firm that year.
According to the news, SK hynix is currently in the testing phase, with facial and object recognition functions on the table. However, at the “SK Tech Summit 2023”, the company recounted its progress in developing “On sensor AI” technology, which would make it possible to integrate an image sensor into an artificial intelligence chip, allowing data processing within the unit itself. So, while currently sensors transmit image information to the CPU to perform relevant calculations, this advancement would reduce both processing time and power consumption.
Samsung, on its part, is working on implementing AI in different areas of its business and image sensors are no exception. Without going any further, the company this year introduced a 200-megapixel image sensor with an advanced zoom feature called Zoom anywhere What uses artificial intelligence for automatic object tracking during close-ups and which we will probably see in the new Samsung Galaxy S24.
Cameras capable of capturing the invisible, what for?
The article does not detail what information not visible to the human eye could be captured, but in hindsight we can get the idea of what can we expect.
Actually, This is not the first time that a mobile camera has made the invisible visible. So, in recent times we have seen terminals equipped with FLIR thermal cameras capable of capturing thermal energy, the hyperspectral cameras of the Huawei P50 Pocket with a sensor dedicated to fluorescent photographs or the OnePlus 8 Pro of 2020, with a camera with a color filter which made it possible to obtain an X-ray view of the interior of objects.
Of course, as we explained at the beginning of the article, this does not imply that this sensor technology with artificial intelligence arrives first on mobile phones or even that it constitutes its scope of application , and could be launched in other segments such as health, industrial or automotive
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