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Sony has announced a new mobile camera sensor designed to improve smartphone photography and video recording. The latest addition to its LYTIA lineup focuses on image quality across challenging lighting conditions. It also introduces improvements aimed at making high-resolution video capture more practical.
Sony LYTIA 720 specifications and features
The Sony LYTIA 720 is a stacked CMOS image sensor with approximately 50 effective megapixels and a 1/1.56-inch optical format. It uses 1.0μm pixels and a Quad Bayer color filter. Designed primarily for smartphone main cameras, the sensor inherits imaging technologies from Sony’s higher-end LYTIA products.
Low-light photography is a key focus of the new sensor. Its Ultra High Conversion Gain (UHCG) circuitry improves charge-to-voltage conversion efficiency, helping suppress image noise in dark environments. Sony claims the LYTIA 720 reduces random noise by approximately 50% compared with the LYTIA 700, its previous sensor of the same size. This should help cameras capture brighter images without a corresponding increase in visible grain.
The sensor also supports a dynamic range of up to 100dB through Hybrid Frame-HDR technology. This approach combines Dual Conversion Gain-HDR data with short-exposure frames to preserve details in shadows and bright areas. For video recording, the LYTIA 720 supports 4K at 60fps with HDR and all-pixel autofocus, while its optimized conversion circuitry helps reduce power consumption. It can also record 4K video at up to 120fps without HDR and capture 50-megapixel images at 30fps.
Sony LYTIA 720 availability
Sony has not announced which smartphones will feature the LYT-720 or when the first commercial devices will arrive. According to Sony’s official announcement, mass-production shipments are scheduled to begin in early November 2026.
The upcoming sensor follows other recent developments in Sony’s mobile imaging portfolio, including the LYTIA L910 and LYTIA 610.
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