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Distinguished Scientist Dr. David Stork to Present on Computational Imaging and Sensing at SENSORCOMM 2013

SUNNYVALE, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES – 08/23/2013

 

Who: Rambus Inc. (NASDAQ:RMBS)
Where: SENSORCOMM 2013
Novotel Barcelona Sant Joan Despi
Carrer de la TV3, 2
Barcelona, Spain
When: August 25-31, 2013

 

Dr. David Stork, Distinguished Research Scientist at Rambus, will deliver the plenary keynote at SENSORCOMM 2013. In his keynote speech, Dr. Stork will discuss Rambus’ findings on ultra-miniature lensless CMOS computational imagers and sensors.

SENSORCOMM 2013 serves as a forum for researchers from academia and industry, professionals, standard developers, policy makers and practitioners to exchange ideas on techniques and applications, best practices, awareness and experiences as well as future trends and needs, both in research and practices, related to all aspects of information security, security systems and technologies.

Presentation Details:

Monday, August 26, 2013

Title: Ultra-miniature Lensless CMOS Computational Imagers and Sensors
9:15 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. CET
Keynote Session

For additional details, visit: www.rambus.com

Rambus to Present Digital Camera Sensor Technology at OSA Optical Sensors Congress

SUNNYVALE, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES – 07/15/2013

Who: Rambus Inc. (NASDAQ: RMBS)
Where: OSA Optical Sensors Congress
Rio Mar Beach Resort
6000 Rio Mar Boulevard
Rio Grande, Puerto Rico 00745
When: July 16 at 12:00 p.m. AST

Rambus scientists Dr. Patrick Gill and Dr. David Stork will highlight their research on digital sensors and novel odd-symmetry phase gratings, outlining how severely blurred sensed image can be inverted computationally to refocus and estimate target distances.

Demonstration Session Details:

Title: Digital camera with spiral odd-symmetry phase grating supports full-resolution computational refocusing
12:30 p.m. – 12:30 p.m. AST

For additional details, visit: www.rambus.com.

Rambus Engineers and Inventors to Present at the 2013 Computational Sensing and Imaging Meeting

SUNNYVALE, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES and ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA, – 06/25/2013

Who: Rambus Inc. (NASDAQ: RMBS)
Where: Computational Sensing and Imaging 2013
Renaissance Arlington Capital View
Arlington, VA, USA
When: June 23-27, 2013

Rambus inventors will present at the 2013 Computation Sensing and Imaging meeting. Presentations include exploring the theoretical and experimental progress in Computational Optical Sensing and Imaging research. These talks span the fundamental physics, hardware implementation, and the numerical and analytical techniques that are leading to significant improvements in imaging and sensing across various fields, such as medicine, defense, and homeland security, as well as in industrial inspection and testing.

Wednesday, June 26, 2013

Title: “Lensless Ultra-Miniature Imagers Using Odd-Symmetry Spiral Phase Gratings”
6:20 p.m.
Patrick R. Gill, David G. Stork, Rambus

Drs. Gill and Stork introduce a new type of diffractive element based on odd-symmetry phase gratings. Spiral arrangements of these gratings over photo sensors constitute a new class of unprecedentedly small computational camera.

Thursday, June 27, 2013

Title: “Transmissive Structured Illumination Reveals Target Depth and Cast Shadow Details Obscured by Scattering Media”
9:20 a.m.
Avinash Kumar, Patrick R. Gill, Thomas Vogelsang, David G. Stork, Rambus

During this presentation, Rambus engineers will describe novel methods of computing sharp shadows and depth estimates of objects immersed in highly scattering media using multi-scale structured transmissive illumination, such as modified Hadamard tiles.

About Rambus Inc.
Rambus is the innovative technology solutions company that brings invention to market. Unleashing the intellectual power of our world-class engineers and scientists in a collaborative and synergistic way, Rambus invents, licenses and develops solutions that challenge and enable our customers to create the future. While best known for creating unsurpassed semiconductor memory architectures, Rambus is also developing world-changing products and services in security, advanced LED lighting and displays, and immersive mobile media.

Dr. Thomas Vogelsang of Rambus to Present at the International Image Sensor Workshop 2013

SUNNYVALE, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES – 06/13/2013

Who: Rambus Inc. (NASDAQ: RMBS)
Where: IISW 2013
Snowbird, Utah
When: June 12 – 16, 2013

Sunday, June 16, 2013

Title: “Overcoming the Full-Well Capacity Limit: High Dynamic Range Imaging Using Multi-Bit Temporal Oversampling and Conditional Reset”
2:20 p.m.
Thomas Vogelsang, Michael Guidash, Song Xue, Rambus

The dynamic range of current CMOS image sensors are limited by each pixel’s “full-well” capacity, which is the ability of the pixel to collect photo-electrons into a quantum well bucket during the exposure period. Binary pixels employ advanced oversampling methods where each pixel has an order of magnitude higher effective full-well capacity compared to conventional CMOS active pixels, resulting in images with a corresponding improvement in dynamic range.

During this presentation, Dr. Vogelsang will discuss the system design of the Rambus Binary Pixel technology, introduced earlier this year. Specifically, he will describe how the high dynamic range image sensor oversamples the incident light by using the ADC output at each sampling and resetting the pixel only if a threshold has been exceeded. Dr. Vogelsang will present results from an image sensor test-chip that demonstrates dynamic range extension by a factor of 14 compared to a conventional sensor in the same technology.

About Rambus Inc.
Rambus is the innovative technology solutions company that brings invention to market. Unleashing the intellectual power of our world-class engineers and scientists in a collaborative and synergistic way, Rambus invents, licenses and develops solutions that challenge and enable our customers to create the future. While best known for creating unsurpassed semiconductor memory architectures, Rambus is also developing world-changing products and services in security, advanced LED lighting and displays, and immersive mobile media.

Rambus Unveils Binary Pixel Technology that Dramatically Improves Photo Quality in Mobile Devices

Breakthrough technology Provides Single-Shot High Dynamic Range and Improved Low-Light Sensitivity in a Single Exposure

SUNNYVALE, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES and BARCELONA, SPAIN – 02/25/2013 – Rambus Inc. (NASDAQ: RMBS), the innovative technology solutions company that brings invention to market, today unveiled breakthrough binary pixel technology that dramatically improves the quality of photos taken from mobile devices. The Rambus binary pixel technology includes image sensor and image processing architectures with single-shot high dynamic range (HDR) and improved low-light sensitivity for better videos and photos in any lighting condition.

“Today’s compact mainstream sensors are only able to capture a fraction of what the human eye can see,” said Dr. Martin Scott, chief technology officer at Rambus. “Our breakthrough binary pixel technology enables a tremendous performance improvement for compact imagers capable of ultra high-quality photos and videos from mobile devices.”

As improvements are made in resolution and responsiveness, more and more consumers are using the camera functionality on their smart phone as the primary method for taking photos and capturing memories. However, high contrast scenes typical in daily life, such as bright landscapes, sunset portraits, and scenes with both sunlight and shadow, are difficult to capture with today’s compact mobile sensors – the range of bright and dark details in these scenes simply exceeds the limited dynamic range of mainstream CMOS imagers.

This binary pixel technology is optimized at the pixel level to sense light similar to the human eye while maintaining comparable form factor, cost and power of today’s mobile and consumer imagers. The results are professional-quality images and videos from mobile devices that capture the full gamut of details in dark and bright intensities.

Benefits of binary pixel technology:

  • Improved image quality optimized at the pixel level
  • Single-shot HDR photo and video capture operates at high-speed frame-rates
  • Improved signal-to-noise performance in low-light conditions
  • Extended dynamic range through variable temporal and spatial oversampling
  • Silicon-proven technology for mobile form factors
  • Easily integratable into existing SoC architectures
  • Compatible with current CMOS image sensor process technology

The Rambus binary pixel has been demonstrated in a proof-of-concept test-chip and the technology is currently available for integration into future mobile and consumer image sensors. For additional information visit www.rambus.com/binarypixel.

About Rambus Inc.
Rambus is the innovative technology solutions company that brings invention to market. Unleashing the intellectual power of our world-class engineers and scientists in a collaborative and synergistic way, Rambus invents, licenses and develops solutions that challenge and enable our customers to create the future. While best known for creating unsurpassed semiconductor memory architectures, Rambus is also developing world-changing products and services in security, advanced LED lighting and displays, and immersive mobile media.

Imaging and Optics Expert Dr. David G. Stork Joins Rambus

Industry luminary to lead Rambus Labs initiative in Computational Sensing and Imaging

SUNNYVALE, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES – 08/04/2011 – Rambus Inc. (NASDAQ:RMBS), one of the world’s premier technology licensing companies, today announced the appointment of David G. Stork, Ph.D., to Rambus Labs where he’ll spearhead the development of the company’s computational sensing and imaging initiative. Dr. Stork is a renowned industry expert in optics and the development of algorithms that enable novel sensing, imaging and image analysis techniques. His honors include being named a Fellow from the International Association for Pattern Recognition.

“With a strong heritage in innovation, Rambus continually strives to develop compelling solutions to important problems,” said Dr. Gary Bronner, vice president of Rambus Labs. “Dr. Stork’s expertise in optics and computational sensing, imaging and pattern recognition makes him an ideal leader for our long term research efforts in imaging systems.”

Over the course of his career, Dr. Stork has held many corporate research and academic positions, resulting in 40 patented inventions and numerous books, journal papers, invited papers and plenary talks in leading journals and conferences. Dr. Stork has also held faculty positions as well as visiting professor and lecturer positions at Boston University, Clark University, Stanford University and Swarthmore College.

Dr. Stork holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in Physics from the University of Maryland and a B.S. in Physics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is also a senior member of the IEEE.

About Rambus Inc.

Rambus is one of the world’s premier technology licensing companies. As a company of inventors, Rambus focuses on the development of technologies that enrich the end-user experience of electronic systems. Its breakthrough innovations and solutions in semiconductors, lighting and display, and security help industry-leading companies bring superior products to market. Rambus licenses both its world-class patent portfolio, as well as its family of leadership and industry-standard solutions. Founded in 1990, Rambus has offices in California, North Carolina, Ohio, India, Germany, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan. Additional information is available at www.rambus.com.

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