Terry Relph-Knight of ZDNet recently noted that the successful design of very low-cost imaging sensors might perhaps be achieved by “doing away” with the conventional lens altogether.
Rambus joins MPEG LA’s DisplayPort patent pool
Rambus has confirmed its participation in MPEG LA’s DisplayPort patent pool, alongside founding licensors Hitachi Maxell, Philips, Sony and Lattice Semiconductor. By joining the pool, Rambus will be making part of its R+ Serial Link innovations more readily available for use in televisions, monitors, cameras, graphics cards and other devices packing DisplayPort interfaces.
Scare Of The Month: Whitebox Cryptography
A few years ago, something called White Box Cryptography (WBC) was developed. This is a rather novel approach that attempts to implement cryptography algorithms in software, rather than hardware.
WDLabs accelerates VIDITY deployment
WDLabs recently introduced a software platform designed to accelerate the creation and deployment of VIDITY™ enabled products and services. Essentially, VIDITY allows consumers to download, store and play 4K Ultra HD movies with high dynamic range (HDR) across a plethora of devices.
Smartphone camera performance: What does the sensor’s megapixel count really tell you?
Digital camera and smartphone marketing often highlights the number of pixels on the camera sensor on the basis that big numbers are good, and huge numbers are even better. The resolving power of the lens is never mentioned
LG Electronics licenses Rambus CryptoManager security platform
LG Electronics (LGE) has licensed Rambus’ CryptoManager security platform for its next generation of mobile devices. The versatile platform will provide LGE with a robust security solution, which includes a hardware-based root-of-trust for the provisioning of keys to manage sensitive data on mobile devices.
