Does camera merge images from multiple sensors?

[Eli_C]

I can't find an answer to this anywhere.

Do the new Samsung cameras merge the images from the multiple sensors to improve the images?

 

[SpookDroid]

Yes and no. It doesn't use all sensors, but it does use the ToF one for depth of field and improved post-processing focus effects, and the Ultra uses pixel binning, which basically takes all pixels in the massive 108MP sensor and divides it into a 12MP 'grid', bundling all those pixels inside each grid square and processing them into one giant pixel (which is how you get the thirty-something MP images out of that bigger sensor).

 

[Eli_C]

If that is all it does (add depth from the depth sensor) I would say no. I would hope that companies would use all of these sensors and merge the images in the way the Light camera does.

In fact, I think the companies are missing the chance to use the ToF sensor (which is really an infra-red camera I believe) to improve low light performance by putting a good sensor there and merging the infra-red image in low light situation.