News tagged with video images

New surveillance camera system provides text feed

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) have developed a prototype surveillance camera and computer system to analyze the camera images and deliver a text feed describing ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jun 03, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 5 | with audio podcast report

Samsung's New CMOS Imagers Offer High-Performance, HD Capable Solutions for Mobile Phones

Samsung Electronics today announced that it has developed two new CMOS image sensors - the S5K4E2 and the S5K5CA - for the mobile phone market. Designers and manufacturers of high-end smart phones and slim mobile handsets ...

Electronics / Hardware

created Feb 22, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New search technique for images and videos has broad applications

(PhysOrg.com) -- Engineers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have developed a powerful new approach to a fundamental problem in computer vision: how to program a computer to recognize or categorize ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 5

Seeing things: Researchers teach computers to recognize objects

(PhysOrg.com) -- If computers could recognize objects, they could automatically search through hours of video footage for a particular two-minute scene. A tourist strolling down a street in a strange city ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Oct 13, 2009 | popularity 3.2 / 5 (6) | comments 1

Leading Companies Form Mobile HD Interface Working Group to Drive Industry Standard

Nokia, Samsung Electronics, Silicon Image, Sony and Toshiba today announced the formation of a Mobile High-Definition Interface Working Group that intends to create an industry standard for an audio/video interface to connect ...

Technology / Other

created Sep 29, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New 3-D sensors coming soon to computers, cameras, other gadgets

In the science fiction movie "Minority Report," set 50 years in the future, Tom Cruise's character interacts with a computer display by moving his hands in front of it.

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Jul 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 1

Sound imaging: clever acoustics help blind people see the world (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Video from portable cameras is analysed to calculate the distance of obstacles and predict the movements of people and cars. This information is then transformed and relayed to a blind person ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jul 02, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Zooming in to catch the bad guys

It's a frequent scene in television crime dramas: Clever police technicians zoom in on a security camera video to read a license plate or capture the face of a hold-up artist. But in real life, enhancing this low-quality ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jun 30, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (7) | comments 4

Biology knows best -- human-like vision lets robots navigate naturally

(PhysOrg.com) -- A robotic vision system that mimics key visual functions of the human brain promises to let robots manoeuvre quickly and safely through cluttered environments, and to help guide the visually impaired.

Electronics / Robotics

created Jun 30, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

No more geeky glasses to watch 3D (w/Video)

Most people’s experience with 3D involves wearing tinted glasses in a cinema. But a new technology, which does not require glasses and may enable 3DTV, is being developed by European researchers.

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Jun 10, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (6) | comments 7

Microsoft adds touch screen, Web browser to Zune

(AP) -- The next generation of Microsoft's Zune music player, due in the fall, will have a touch screen, Web browser and an HD Radio receiver.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created May 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Conn. pols weigh updates to reflect GPS advances

(AP) -- Addicted to that GPS navigation system? On Connecticut roads, that might make you a lawbreaker.

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Apr 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

HoloTV Images Jump off the Screen, into Tomorrow's Homes (w/Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Unlike today’s biggest and most realistic LCD and plasma TVs, 3D TV screens can project images that seem to float in mid-air beyond the screen. That means, for instance, that viewers could ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Mar 12, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (19) | comments 10 feature

Flickr lets all users upload video snippets

Flickr on Monday began letting users of its free online photo-sharing service upload snippets of video to the website in a budding challenge to Google-owned YouTube.

Technology / Internet

created Mar 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Samsung Introduces Pair of 12 Mega-Pixel, 24mm Ultra-Wide Angle Compact Digital Cameras

Samsung Electronics today unveiled two new 12 mega-pixel compact digital cameras boasting 24mm ultra-wide angle Schneider lenses. Samsung’s new TL320 raises the bar for innovation in the digital imaging industry ...

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Feb 24, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1