TheiaCel™ OV50R40 CMOS Image Sensor Provides Ultra-High Dynamic Range for Smartphones and Action Cameras

The OV50R40 CMOS image sensor features ultra-high dynamic range (HDR) for video and preview with single exposure, excellent low-light performance, fast autofocus and high frame rates. The OV50R40, a 50‑megapixel (MP) sensor with a 1.2‑micron (µm) pixel, is designed for high-end consumer devices including smartphones, as well as action, vlog and pocket cameras.

The OV50R40 is designed for high-end main cameras in a 1/1.3‑inch optical format that supports 4‑cell binning for 12.5MP at 120 frames per second (fps) and 4K 60 fps with three-channel HDR with 4x sensitivity for excellent low-light performance. Compared with the previous-generation OV50K40, the new mobile TheiaCel™ sensor, OV50R40, delivers approximately 20% lower power consumption, enabling longer HDR video capture while maintaining system stability.

It offers premium-quality 8K video with dual analog gain (DAG) HDR and on‑sensor crop zoom. OMNIVISION’s second-generation TheiaCel™ technology further expands single exposure HDR to 110 decibels (dB). The sensor supports 100% coverage quad phase detection (QPD) for best-in-class autofocus performance. The OV50R40 is built on OMNIVISION’s PureCel®Plus‑S stacked-die technology.