I truly don’t understand how in 2023 with all the digitalization we have cars with backup cameras from at best a 2015 mid range smartphone. What’s preventing a manufacturer like bmw for an example from putting a high end sony sensor like the one on the iPhone 15 into their camera modules?
I have a 108megapixel camera (along with 2 others) on my 500€ phone. And the camera price is probably less than 10% of the price
A 108 megapixel phone sensor in a backup cam probably would not look very good especially in low light. Your phone does a ton of post processing and binning to make the image look good. All of this is assuming the processor in the car infotainment keep up with a 108 megapixel stream. Which it probably can’t.
brah…I need more pixels so I can see the divorcee’s ass when I’m backing out and she’s bending over to get the mail across the street.
Henry Ford would do it!
A 108 megapixel phone sensor is not actually outputting anything close to a 108 megapixel stream (that would be 12000x9000 resolution, which is higher than 8K). It combines data from 9 different sensors to create 12 megapixel (4000 x 3000) images. One of it’s specialties is low light situations.
The real problem is that it’s not made to stand up to the use case of a car camera, and requires additional processing power to run which may not work with the zero-fault requirements of backup cameras (the reason the systems are almost always on separate inputs/wiring to the screen than the rest of the failure-prone infotainment).