Oppo has announced the LUMO Image Engine, its new imaging platform that will debut with the Oppo Find X9 Series, launching in India on November 18. The system integrates optics, colour science, sensor control, and computational processing to capture images that reflect reality more naturally, eliminating artificial tones and over-processed effects.
What is the LUMO Image Engine?
LUMO is Oppo’s proprietary imaging system built around a human-centred imaging approach. It’s designed to replicate how the human eye perceives light and colour, focusing on tonal balance, depth, and spatial realism. The system works on a foundational level, ensuring skin tones appear natural, transitions between light and shadow are smooth, and subjects separate from backgrounds without artificial blur.
How it works
The LUMO Image Engine functions through three major systems—Ultra-sensing computational optical system, Ultra-perceptive digital imaging engine, and End-to-End ProXDR.
The Ultra-sensing system enhances optical performance across all focal lengths using the Golden Portrait Full-Focal Length System. It employs large-aperture lenses and the industry’s first ultra-crystal blue glass, improving infrared filtering and light transmission. With focal lengths spanning 15mm to 135mm, users can shoot everything from landscapes to portraits with consistent clarity.
Its Ultra-Fast Focusing System offers 30% faster autofocus, while the Multimodal Colour Sensing System enables zone-based colour correction. This ensures different areas of an image, such as a backlit face and a cool-toned background, are processed individually for accurate colour rendering.
The Ultra-perceptive engine includes four computational subsystems: True Colour Engine, Computational Optical Bokeh Engine, HyperTone Image Engine, and Lightning Snap Engine. Together, these deliver precise colour calibration, realistic bokeh, balanced tones, and motion-freezing clarity.
The End-to-End ProXDR component, powered by RGB 3D Photon Matrix Computation, maintains 16-bit colour accuracy from capture to social sharing. It ensures every highlight, shadow, and colour gradient remains intact across different platforms, thanks to Oppo’s collaboration with Google on the True Colour ProXDR standard for motion photos.
Hardware and availability
The LUMO Image Engine runs on the MediaTek Dimensity 9500 chipset, using its Imagiq NPU and ISP for real-time image analysis and power-efficient 4K recording. Oppo’s Find X9 Series featuring LUMO will launch in India on November 18, marking the next phase of Oppo’s imaging evolution.
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