Year: 2011

Back in late July, I wrote about Azumio's Instant Heart Rate, an application which uses an Apple iOS- or Google Android-based mobile device's built-in camera and flash illumination subsystems to assess pulse rate in an impressively accurate manner. Yesterday, I learned about a conceptually similar app from Philips called Vital Signs Camera, although the implementation […]

Embedded Vision Alliance Founder Jeff Bier was at the VISION 2011 Conference in Stuttgart, Germany last week, and earlier this week I got a data download on his impressions of the show, its exhibitors and its attendees. Keep an eye out for a full conference report to come in the near future; for now, I'll

NVIDIA definitively unveiled its Tegra 3 ARM Cortex-A9-based SoC yesterday, following up on the initial disclosure at February's Mobile World Congress show (when it was known by its "Kal-El" project code name) and a subsequent release (PDF) of two architectural white papers (PDF) in late September. Those of you who have already read my technical

Thanks to both Steve Leibson's EDA360 Insider blog and Digital Photography Review for alerting me to today's primary post topic. Yale University recently posted a one-hour talk by CMOS image sensor inventor (and Photobit co-founder, with his wife) Eric Fossum, which I commend to your attention. It's the second annual Victor M. Tyler Distinguished Lectureship