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Samsung's 46-inch LCD panel adds new dimension in outdoor digital signage.(Industry News)

Jun 01, 2008 ... Intent on producing the most innovative technology for digital information displays (DIDs), Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., (San Jose, Calif.), the world's largest provider of thin-film transistor, liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) panels, has begun mass-producing a 46-inch "high bright" ...

Tessera brings innovative optical zoom to camera phones.(Industry News)

Jun 01, 2008 ... Tessera Technologies, Inc. (San Jose, Calif.), a leading provider of miniaturization technologies for the electronics industry, announced in April that its OptiML[TM] Zoom solution is available for licensing. This innovative image-enhancement solution combines unique lens design with ...

Allied Vision Technologies joins JIIA as associate member.(Industry News)

Jun 01, 2008 ... Allied Vision Technologies, a leading producer of digital cameras for industrial image processing, is seeking to expand its presence in Asia. To help strengthen its position, AVT has become an associate member of the Japan Industrial Imaging Association (JIIA). "The Asian market for ...

Northwire introduces e-commerce.(Industry News)

Jun 01, 2008 ... Northwire, Inc. (Osceola, Wis.) has introduced NorthwireDirect, an e-commerce website for ordering off-the-shelf, factory-direct cable. Initially, more than 100 products or part numbers are available, including: CAN-Bus Cable--DataCELL[R] 1939 (SAE J1939) and ODVA[TM] DeviceNet[TM] cables; ...

From here to infinity: liquid lens gives color machine vision camera an extra edge.

Jun 01, 2008; Hochfelder, Barry ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] * Machine vision * Liquid lenses * USB * Ethernet The latest advance in color machine vision is the use of liquid lenses, which make focusing automatic from just inches to infinity. IVA Corp ....

Hitachi delivers three cameras for Springsteen concerts.(Application Notes)

Jun 01, 2008 ... Hitachi Kokusai Electric America, Ltd., (Woodbury, N.Y.) has delivered two Hitachi DK-H32 HDTV remote observation compact cameras and one Hitachi SK-3020P handheld production HDTV camera to Pete's Big TVs (New Castle, Del.). Pete's is a production company specializing in large-screen ...

What's in that medicine? Exploiting the wavelength interval between the visible and thermal infrared for chemical imaging in pharmaceutical sciences.(MICROSCOPY SPECIAL EDITION)

Jun 01, 2008; Dubois, Janie ... [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] * Spectroscopy * NIR chemical imaging * Pharmaceuticals * Thermal imaging Digital imaging in the visible (400 to 700 nm) spectral region now is commonplace with the availability of low-cost CCD and CMOS cameras ...

Optimizing performance: getting the most out of your multi-core CPU or GPU requires the right software.(COMPONENT INTEGRATION)

Jun 01, 2008; Sookman, Sarah ... [GRAPHIC OMITTED] * Multi-core CPUs * Multi-core GPUs * FPGAs * Software * Algorithms Your tried-and-true machine vision application works well on the "old" single-core machine. But with the deluge of affordable ...

Illumination is a vital component to many dynamic applications.(CORE TECHNOLOGY)

Jun 01, 2008; Meacham, Stacey ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Market analysts predict the overall LED market will reach $11.4 billion by 2012. Machine vision lighting is a major portion of this market. Life span, durability and cost must all be considered when choosing lighting for a machine vision system. ...

16 megapixel camera with gige interface now available from SVS-VISTEK.(New Products)

Jun 01, 2008 ... SVS-VISTEK GmbH (Seefeld, Germany) presents the newly developed ultra high-speed version of its 16 megapixel camera svs16000 with Gigabit Ethernet interface. The svs16000-U extends the product line of Gigabit Ethernet digital cameras with another high-resolution camera. The ...

Imperx's new bobcat series: compact, feature-rich digital cameras for machine vision.(New Products)

Jun 01, 2008 ... Imperx Inc. (Boca Raton, Fla.) introduces its new BOBCAT series of cameras. BOBCAT is a new line of compact (45mm x 45mm x 39mm), feature-rich CameraLink cameras designed to address the needs of a wide range of machine vision applications. The BOBCAT series offers a common platform for all ...

Point Grey Research announces 200 fps addition to the Grasshopper[R] family.(New Products)

Jun 01, 2008 ... Point Grey Research Inc. (Vancouver, BC, Canada), announces the addition of two new models to its line of popular Grasshopper IEEE-1394b (FireWire) 800Mbit/s digital cameras. The new models are based on the addition of monochrome and color Kodak KAI-0340 640x480 1/3-inch CCDs to the ...