We still don’t know for sure what the new Galaxy S24 family will be like (although due to the scarcity of rumors it won’t be), and Samsung is already setting its sights on the next generation. If we knew a few hours ago that the Korean firm would use artificial intelligence to transcribe calls in real time, what are we talking about now? Integrating AI into the sensors of future mobile phones has one purpose: to photograph the unseen.

Towards humanoid sensors

This information comes from Business Korea and refers to Samsung Electronics and SK hynix’s collaboration on this project and their progress in this regard. Aim? Marketing ‘Humanoid sensors’ that can detect and replicate human senses It has functions such as capturing the invisible until 2027. But the pinnacle and other of these sensors is that we will see them in the Korean firm’s mobile portfolio later that year.

According to the news, SK hynix is ​​currently in the testing phase, and face and object recognition functions are also on the table. However, at ‘SK Tech Summit 2023’, the company explained its progress in the development of ‘Ten-sensor artificial intelligence’ technology. will allow an image sensor to be integrated into an artificial intelligence chipenables data processing on the unit itself. Thus, while sensors currently transmit image information to the CPU so that the relevant calculations can be made, with this progress, both processing time and energy consumption will be reduced.

Samsung, on the other hand, is working on the application of artificial intelligence in different areas of its business, and image sensors are no exception. Without going any further, this year the company introduced a 200-megapixel image sensor with advanced zoom functionality. Zoom Anywhere HE uses artificial intelligence for automatic object tracking during close-ups and we will predictably see this on the new Samsung Galaxy S24.

What are cameras that can capture the visible for?

This article does not explain in detail what information cannot be seen by the human eye can be captured, but looking back we can get the following idea: what can we expect.

Actually, It’s not the first time a mobile camera has made the invisible visible. So, recently we have seen terminals with FLIR thermal cameras capable of capturing thermal energy, Huawei P50 Pocket hyperspectral cameras with a special sensor for fluorescent photos or, from 2020, the OnePlus 8 Pro with a color filter camera. It provided x-ray images of the interior of objects.

Of course, as we explained at the beginning of the article, this does not mean that this sensor technology with artificial intelligence has reached mobile phones in the first place, or even that it has application scope, and that it can be launched in other segments. healthcare, industrial or automotive

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