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 June 11, 2008 - Sony today announced a backside-illuminated (BSI) CMOS sensor promising nearly double the sensitivity and lower noise in images. Traditionally, front-illumination has been used. According to Sony, the new technology can be used in CMOS sensors for both digital cameras and camcorders. It follows the BSI technology announced by Omnivision last month for cell phone image sensors.
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Added on: Jun 11, 2008
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 August 3, 2007 – Today’s consumers are plagued with having to remember to charge their cell phones, plug in their laptops, and, for photographers, recharge their camera batteries. But researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have made a breakthrough in what scientists call “WiTricity,” or wireless electricity. MIT researchers last month announced they successfully lit a 60-watt light bulb from a power source two meters away without a wired connection, signaling that some day consumers may be able to power electronics without cords.
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Added on: Aug 03, 2007
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 March 14, 2007 – “Imagine combining your love for bouncing balls and your obsession with taking pictures into one,” states design website SatuGo.com. Two designers in Denmark have designed a SatuGo rubber ball camera that users can throw for image capture. Although a prototype has not yet been developed, the designers are currently in negotiations to have the throw-able camera commercialized for the market, said SatuGo Interactive Designer Mads Ny Larsen in a statement to DigitalCameraInfo.com.
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Added on: Mar 14, 2007
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 August 30, 2006 - Following this month’s 33rd Annual Siggraph Conference in Boston, MA, a research team at Mitsubishi Electric is catching the attention of camera manufacturers for their photo motion deblurring technology, called a flutter shutter camera.
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Added on: Aug 30, 2006
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 August 14, 2006 – Last week, scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison announced the development of the first autonomous micro liquid lens, according to the university’s website. The “smart liquid lens,” as it is called, can detect chemicals in other liquid-based environments, without external control.
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Added on: Aug 14, 2006
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 August 2, 2006 – A Massachusetts Institute of Technology and University of Toronto research team debuted photo-deblurring technology at yesterday’s 33rd Annual Siggraph Conference in Boston, MA.
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Added on: Aug 02, 2006
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 July 24, 2006 – Last week, UK scientists at the University of Glasgow released new research information on a potential cure for blindness, using a retina implant prototype modeled after digital camera technology.
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Added on: Jul 24, 2006
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 July 19, 2006 – Biometric Intelligence & Identification Technologies (BI(2) Technologies) announced on Monday the launch of the first U.S. sex offender database using iris biometric technology.
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Added on: Jul 19, 2006
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 July 18, 2006 – Hewlett-Packard Co. announced yesterday their latest invention, a grain-sized data chip that can be attached to most anything.
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Added on: Jul 18, 2006
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 July 13, 2006 – Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology developed photo-detecting fibers, according to a MIT press release last week. Unlike lens-based optical systems, found in cameras, the light-detecting fibers can measure light direction and intensity without lenses or filters.
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Added on: Jul 13, 2006
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 June 20, 2006 – Iridian Technologies awarded yesterday their Proof Positive certification to the IRISPASS-M Two-Eye Iris Recognition Camera made by Oki Electric Industry Company, Ltd. Passing a series of audits and evaluations, the software company Iridian granted their certification to camera, thus meeting Iridian standards for iris recognition.
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Added on: Jun 20, 2006
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 June 19th, 2006 - DALSA Semiconductor, a division of DALSA Corporation, has just announced the successful production and delivery of a new 111 MP CCD (10,650 pixels x 10,560 pixels). This new CCD device is the first imager to break the 100 million pixel mark. The sensor was manufactured at DALSA Semiconductor’s wafer fabrication facility in Bromont, Quebec.
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Added on: Jun 19, 2006
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 May 19, 2006 – Electronics and semiconductor company Dalsa Corporation announced yesterday that it inked a deal with a “valued customer” worth $1.9 million. As part of the deal, Dalsa will manufacture high-resolution image sensors for the customer’s photogrammetry system that uses aerial photographs to make measurements of topographical features.
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Added on: May 19, 2006
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 May 18th, 2006 - Micron Technology, Inc. has just announced the completion of the world’s smallest 8-megapixel CMOS sensor, which will be capable of capturing fast, high-resolution photographs and entry-level HD video content. This sensor will be able to take 10 pictures per second at the full 8-megapixel resolution or 30 pictures per second at a reduced resolution of 2-megapixels.
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Added on: May 18, 2006
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 May 17, 2006 – Fujifilm’s researchers have been hard at work. Yesterday IBM announced that the two companies collaborated to create a data storage system that can hold the equivalent of text from 8 million books in a cartridge half the size of a VHS videocassette. Fujifilm helped create the magnetic tape inside the tiny cartridge.
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Added on: May 17, 2006
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 May 9, 2006 – As part of the International Congress of Imaging Science, a few Xerox scientists presented their vision of “ubiquitous imaging” this week. The term is used to describe “a time when information and images are totally merged, and imaging is everywhere yet unobtrusive,” stated yesterday’s press release. The release used an example of an image of a bird that contained data to produce the bird’s song, preferred habitat, and feeding behaviors.
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Added on: May 09, 2006
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 May 2, 2006 – If you can’t buy an iPod this year, you can make one out of your digital camera. While this may sound like a really advanced science fair project, it’s actually the newest edge of a growing trend: expansions and accessories designed to target consumers who’ve already bought the cameras themselves.
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Added on: May 02, 2006
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 April 27, 2006 – Red-eye in digital images has always been something to avoid, but researchers at Kodak have recently found a use for it: determining subjects’ ages. The company was recently granted a patent for technology that would determine the age of subjects by the size of the red-eye defects—as people age, their pupils don’t expand as much, leading to less red-eye—and the distance between the two eyes.
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Added on: Apr 27, 2006
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 April 24, 2006 – The random noise in digital images may not be so random after all. Researchers from Binghamton University in New York have found a way to link images with the digital cameras that took them using the noise. The researchers applied for two patents this month and hope the technology will help prosecute child pornographers.
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Added on: Apr 24, 2006
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 April 21, 2006 - This week Sony announced plans to develop a CMOS chip capable of capturing images from all pixels at 60 fps. Also in the works is a digital signal processor, which combined with the CMOS chip, is expected to further break down the divide between still images and video.
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Added on: Apr 21, 2006
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