Terushi Shimizu, Sony Semiconductor Solutions CEO has made the exceedingly bold and unexpected statement.
Sony recently made some interesting and slightly out-there forward-looking statements concerning the future of the camera phone market, specifically that by 2024 – in just two years’ time – the image quality of a smartphone will exceed that of a single-lens reflex camera…
“We expect that still images will exceed the image quality of single-lens reflex cameras within the next few years,” said Terushi Shimizu, Sony Semiconductor Solutions CEO, via SonyAddict(opens in new tab).
A giant leap for smartphones
We’d love a detailed account of how Sony is confident it will make the giant leap of making smartphone sensors (obviously significantly smaller than that in single-lens reflex cameras) outperform those in interchangeable lens cameras.
“In the future, in addition to increasing the diameter, by combining the new pixel structure “two-layer transistor pixel” technology and artificial intelligence (AI) processing technology that can double the shooting performance of bright places, for still images, a single-lens camera The image quality can be exceeded.
Furthermore, it is said that background blurring using 8K video shooting / high-speed readout and ToF (distance measuring sensor) will be realized toward 30 years.” This is an English translation of the Nikkei article, originally in Japanese(opens in new tab).
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