Traditionally, endoscopic vision systems have required standalone video processor units to capture and display image data. As images from a fiberscope are captured, the interstitial...
Traditionally, electric power has been transmitted over copper wires that are expensive to install, require significant installation time, and are subject to intermittent failure...
Conventional parts manufacturing methods such as machining, casting, and forging have existed for centuries, but the process of selective laser melting (SLM) is still in its infancy...
A team from Scotland is planning to travel to China in 2012 to provide 3-D scans of one of that country's most important heritage sites—the Eastern Qing tombs. In use from 1666...
Students at Rice University (Houston, TX, USA) have developed a vision-based tool that can be used for the qualitative analysis of a baseball pitcher's grip.
A multispectral scanner the size of a desktop scanner has been developed at the University of Oxford's (Oxford, UK) Faculty of Classics. It is now being commercialized by a new...
By combining a novel sensor with a computer-vision system, researchers in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT's) Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences (Cambridge...
The simple concept, which saw Microscan rewarded with a US patent (7,976,184) in July 2011, allows the top diffuser plates of Microscan's Edge-to-Edge Backlights to be interchangeable...
To evaluate the performance of imaging devices used in cameras, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST; Gaithersburg, MD, USA) are developing ...
One of my favorite episodes of the television series The Twilight Zone is "To Serve Man," a tale about the Kanamits, a race of nine-foot-tall aliens that land on Earth. In the...
