TL; DR
- Sony has announced the LYTIA 610, a 64MP sensor with a new RB2x2 OCL structure.
- It delivers over 20 percent higher spatial resolution and supports 4K video at 120 fps.
- OEM shipments begin in June 2026, with the vivo X500 Pro likely to be among the first adopters.
Sony has announced the LYTIA 610, a new 64MP image sensor for mobile cameras. Shipments to device manufacturers start at the end of June 2026. It is the first sensor in the industry to bring an RB2x2 On-Chip Lens pixel structure into mass production. It primarily targets telephoto and secondary cameras rather than a phone’s primary sensor.
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What Makes The LYTIA 610 Different
The central innovation of the new Sony sensor is in the pixel architecture. Within a standard Quad Bayer layout, green pixels use a 1×1 OCL structure to maximize sharpness. Red and blue pixels, on the other hand, use a 2×2 OCL structure, in which four pixels share a single lens.
This allows more pixels to double as phase-detection points, resulting in faster autofocus without sacrificing resolution, and a dedicated remosaicing algorithm ties both structures together. Sony also claims over 20% higher spatial resolution than its conventional sensors with the same pixel size.
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Video Capabilities And Real-World Context
The LYTIA 610 also doubles the readout speed of Sony’s previous 1/2-type sensors, thanks to upgraded logic circuits and a parallelized analog-to-digital converter. This unlocks 4K video at 120 fps, which, in retrospect, no other Sony sensor at its size has achieved before. It also provides 4K 60 fps DAG-HDR for high-contrast scenes.
The practical goal is to narrow the quality gap between a phone’s main and secondary cameras, which are usually characterized by differences in color, tuning, and overall quality. If you’ve been following developments related to the X500 Pro, the purported phone is said to adopt a 64MP Sony periscope telephoto sensor.
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There’s strong speculation that the smartphone could use this sensor, but Sony hasn’t confirmed anything yet.
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