By Michael Tusch Founder and CEO Apical Limited At the late-March 2012 Embedded Vision Alliance Summit, Eric Gregori and Shehrzad Qureshi from BDTI presented a helpful overview of CCD and CMOS image sensor technology. I thought it might be interesting to extend this topic to cover so-called HDR (High Dynamic Range) / WDR (Wide Dynamic […]
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By Dong-Ik Ko (Lead Engineer, Gesture Recognition and Depth-Sensing) and Gaurav Agarwal (Manager, Gesture Recognition and Depth-Sensing) Texas Instruments This is a reprint of a Texas Instruments-published white paper, which is also available here (2.6 MB PDF). Introduction Over the past few years, gesture recognition has made its debut in entertainment and gaming markets. Now,
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Facial recognition software developer Face.com has been in the news quite a lot in recent months. Back in late January, for example, the company launched a free iOS-based app called KLIK which "uses face recognition to let you quickly tag your friends in real-time. Fire up KLIK and watch as your friends' names instantly appear
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Remember my writeup of a few weeks ago, wherein I noted that the Terms of Service in Samsung's new TVs (containing image sensors, microphones, and networking transceivers) included a clause allowing third-party apps to make use of the monitoring system, and use the data gathered for their own purposes? Well, thanks to another Slashdot post,
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Brian Dipert, Editor-In-Chief of the Embedded Vision Alliance, interviews Colin Duggan, Analog Devices Director of Marketing. Brian and Colin discuss Analog Devices' newly announced and embedded vision-optimized Blackfin SoCs and the company's recent Embedded Vision Alliance membership upgrade to the Platinum tier. More generally, Brian and Colin talk about Analog Devices' perspectives on, and plans
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Wellingborough, UK (11 April 2012) – IMS Research, recently acquired by IHS Inc. (NYSE: IHS), announced today that it is a partner in the PSA Business Solutions program, a suite of value-added resources for security professionals. PSA Security Network owners and customers can now receive discounts on IMS Research’s Security Executive Insights reports. These reports
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Poor posture is a topic that my poor mother constantly harped on me about as a child. And considering how poorly I'm sitting as I type these words, her efforts were largely for naught. Nonetheless, her spirit lives on in Philips' 24-inch ErgoSensor Monitor, which leverages a built-in front-facing image sensor and software developed by
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Wellingborough, UK (10 April 2012) – In a recently published market report “The Indian Market for CCTV and Video Surveillance Equipment,” IMS Research, recently acquired by IHS Inc. (NYSE: IHS), forecasts that city surveillance will be the fastest growing vertical market in the country over the next five years. Such city surveillance projects have received
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If you're not into videoconferencing but you're into gaming, researchers have come up with a clever alternative use for your smartphone's front-mounted camera. A rubberized accessory device mounted ahead of it, containing a patterned grid and able to let in sufficient light even with your finger on top of it, transforms the image sensor into
The Analog Joystick: An Image Sensor-Plus-Accessory Combo Creates One That’s Slick Read More +
Remember Google's augmented reality glasses, the rumors of which I mentioned back in late February? Well, they're real, as it turns out, at least in prototype form. They're under development by the same 'Google X Lab' that is working on the company's autonomous automobile…and it's not April 1st, so I'm not fooling (although that's not
Google’s Project Glass(es): A Further Loss Of Privacy With A Touch Of Class Read More +
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