We have seen it before, many of the innovations in photography like as Live Views, Face Detection, Eye AF, and so on have come from smartphones. And this is completely understandable considering the production cycle of these devices.

As we told you some days ago, the Huawei Pro 30 Pro rewrite the color sensing rule that debuts a completely new sensor design. Instead of the red, green, green, blue (RGGB) Bayer Pattern filter array that we usually see over almost every camera sensors, it uses a red, yellow, yellow, blue (RYYB) filter pattern.

Yellow filters transmit a wider spectrum of lights through to the photoreceptor, about 40% or even more, so this is why Leica and Huawei opted for this design.

This means that the P30 Pro’s sensor has a lot more information to work with. As a result, the camera has an astonishing low-light performance.

During an interview at the Huawei P30’s launch event, Angela Nicholson from Camerajabber asked Dr. Florian Weiler, Project Manager of Optical Design at Leica, if the RYYB sensor design might be used elsewhere, perhaps in interchangeable lens cameras.

And the answer was yes.

This doesn’t just mean better image quality in low-light situation, but also a major help for AF perfomance for every APS-C or Full Frame sensor.

Even more, since the partnerships with Leica, we can hope for AI in the next digital cameras? In fact this isn’t a real new one, since Sony uses artificial intelligence to help recognise subjects in Real Time Tracking, on the a6400.

Switching to an RYYB sensor necessitates a change in the processing to ensure that the image colours look right. The P30-series uses AI (artificial intelligence), which may help it understand the scene and deliver correct colours.

More info on Camerajabber.