AI is a rapidly evolving space. With the meteoric rise of generative AI applications in the past year, we are now firmly in the era of AI 2.0. This is characterized by large language models that place AI into the hands of millions of consumers and enterprises offering limitless possibilities for creativity and innovation. We recently interviewed Dr. Steven Woo, fellow and distinguished inventor at Rambus Labs, to find out more about AI 2.0 and the key technologies that will shape it going forward.
Emerging Solutions
Augmented Reality Enabled by LSS
Rambus Lensless Smart Sensors (LSS) take a novel approach to sensing by combining ultra-small diffractive gratings with standard image sensors to deliver advanced capabilities in a form factor ideal for AR and VR devices. Light passes through the diffractive grating and is spread in the image sensor below to show an information rich blob that contains all the pertinent data about a user’s gaze.
With it’s small size, LSS can be hidden in the frames of everyday eyewear, making eye tracking hardware invisible to the outside world and enabling users to experience AR without compromising style, design or comfort.
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Lensless Smart Sensors POD 2.0
Lensless Smart Sensor (LSS) technology is helping to enable a new generation of low-power sensing by capturing information-rich images with a low-cost phase grating, standard image sensors and sophisticated computational algorithms. To accelerate LSS adoption and further explore additional use cases, Rambus has released its POD 2.0 evaluation system for LSS technology. The POD 2.0 is designed to allow OEMs and system designers an easy way to assess LSS fitness for their applications.
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Smart Building Sensors
Lensless Smart Sensor technology takes a novel approach to sensing by combining ultra-small diffractive gratings with standard image sensors. Light passing through the diffractive grating is intelligently spread onto the image sensor below to form an unrecognizable, but information-rich blob that contains all of the pertinent data from the scene. This information is combined with application-specific algorithms that can either visually reconstruct a scene, or extract relevant data, like the number and position of occupants directly from the blob. LSS uses the processed metadata to detect and interpret activity within a space at a size and performance previously unattainable with existing building sensing technologies, all without compromising privacy.
Through the use of diffractive optics, LSS captures information about a building’s occupants while fully preserving their privacy. The presence of someone, the number of people, and general activity can be passively detected, and used to trigger other systems and functions in the building.
LSS can also be deployed with thermal capabilities, so rooms can adjust automatically to the comfort level of occupants. Heating, cooling and lighting can be directed appropriately, and energy can be used only where needed. By rethinking the way digital systems see, LSS creates and intelligent infrastructure that can adapt to the ever-changing needs of a building’s occupants.
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Rambus LSS Partners in Open Development Program
Rambus has partnered with design firms frog and IXDS to highlight the potential of our lensless smart sensor (LSS) technology.
Rambus Lensless Smart Sensors
The Rambus LSS technology delivers high fidelity output for greater accuracy and more sophisticated capabilities in the areas of gesture recognition, depth and range tracking, point finding, and advanced object recognition.
