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
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RIoT @ MWC: The hardware roundup
Imagination Technologies, a veteran GPU designer and the new owner of the low-power processor architecture MIPS, launched the G6020 at MWC – a GPU that is intended to serve the low-power requirements needed for devices in the wearables and IoT markets.
Rambus Lensless Smart Sensor: A Tiny Image Sensor Designed For IoT
Remember Rambus? The company that developed RDRAM (Rambus DRAM). No? That’s not surprising; we haven’t heard much from them in the past decade since RDRAM stopped being Intel’s standard for memory. Well, apparently the company has been quite busy over the years, with RDRAM and its successor XDR DRAM, currently being used in PlayStation 2 and 3.
Tiny Rambus Lensless Camera Could be Added to Any Electronic Device
Rambus has developed a diffraction-based lensless imaging system that could be used in tiny sensors for the “Internet of Things”. Extremely small, thin and solid state, their Lensless Smart Sensor shifts the optics to occur through computational processing rather than relying on a lens and housing, dramatically reducing size and cost of the overall system.
Lensless, Pinpoint-Sized Camera Could Add Sight to Any Device
With no lens and capturing only a blur of light, a new type of camera developed by Rambus barely meets the definition of the word. But it’s so small and cheap to make that it could be included in just about any device.
A Microscopic Lens-Free Image Sensor Could Turn Anything Into a Camera
This tiny piece of glass may not look like much, but in fact its surface is cleverly etched to capture light, and it contains a small chip to process the incident light. Yep, it’s a tiny camera that could provide any object—however small—with the means of capturing images.