'Binary Pixel' sensor tech for expanded dynamic range

Part of what they are describing is the now common method of high dynamic range imaging, it is called multislope exposure. The CMOSIS sensors that are out now have this capability, they can repeat the process twice, for 3 exposure slopes.
 
Sounds like what Pixim has been doing for a decade. Back then, I was first excited by the greater latitude, then dismayed by the aforementioned motion artifacts (and yes, I know it would show up just in extreme situations, but like rolling shutter, I just don't want to have to think about it, at least not on my workhorse camera).
 
If the reset happens "when a pixel has received a certain amount of light", it may not have the temporal issues of the cmosis system, which is reset always at the same time (configurable by the camera manufacturer) irrespective of how much light it has gathered by then
 
I wonder what the response time is? Perceivable or not? With modern tech it should be possible to employ this with a fast enough refresh rate to be totally imperceivable. We're only talking about 24-30fps here, which isn't that quick. If the pixels were capable of reacting 1000 a second for example, it would be wicked.
 
I noticed this comment to the article:

You cannot trust a company like Rambus. They have a terrible history. They are a patent troll of the highest order. Genuine companies should steer clear of them. They join technology consortiums, with the guise of cooperation and knowledge sharing, then they run off and patent these shared ideas or incorporate it in their patents. Then they mount a battery of lawsuits with companies that would rather give in than expose them. The worst was when Intel partnered with them in the famous RDRAM fiasco, after RDRAM failed they sued almost all the memory manufacturers, after joining JDEC and stealing their ideas and patenting them. This company needs to be put out to pasture. I wont doubt that any technology they are showing off is fluff only to get corporation.
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And then this further down...

On another note it is worth noting that RAMBUS makes its income by filing patents on ideas which borderline common knowledge and then sue chip makers to pay licenses to RAMBUS, making common products more expensive. Lets hope this is not the intention here that this patent is creating the foundation to make sensor more expensive in the future.
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Sounds like the idea is being hyped with the intention of getting a lot of developers to jump on the wagon and then sue their ass off.

Companies as well as people get desperate in desperate times.
 
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