Camera Platforms International designs, manufactures, rents and leases production equipment to the film and video industries. Co. rents three varieties of camera cars, Akela, Pegasus...
Digital Ally is helping law enforcement make the transition to the tech era by providing digital cameras inside police automobiles. It's a lucrative business, according to Julie Alexandria.
This case study discusses the wireless connectivity needs of workers in the building trades and explains how Palm® Treo™ smartphones are meeting those needs for the construction professionals at Webcor Builders. Previously, salaried employees of the California construction firm carried these four devices: Palm handheld Laptop computer...
You might think camera phones are only good for capturing spur of the moment events but it's used in businesses also. Camera phones have real-world business applications, too. Real-estate agents are using camera phones to give them an edge on the competition. In booming markets, houses can be snatched up...
The Find: Consumers are more willing to buy a new product as part of a trade-in deal than they would be if they were shopping for it separately -- even if the price was the same. The Source: Findings from Wharton School student research ...
If you buy a digital camera from OfficeMax but not a memory card, you'll get e-mail the following week with memory product recommendations and a 15-percent-off coupon. The Naperville, Ill., office products store excels at event-triggered communications, says managing partner Kelly Hlavinka of Colloquy, Alliance Data's loyalty consulting arm in...
Tired of hearing dead air on the speaker phone? Use these helpful hints to liven up your long-distance meetings. Before the Meeting: Know Your Gear If you're using videoconferencing technology, spend some time learning how it works before your meeting. Use the...
Back Up Your Brain with Your CameraText messageI also like to use the text messaging. I just text message myself where my car is, ie 4A...this is a sure bet way to remember!
It really sucks when you park in a multi-level lot and then end up wandering up and down the rows because youve forgotten where youve left your car. Its even worse when youre traveling and are unfamiliar with the lot to begin with. (Once, I even forgot what...
Those responsible for producing and distributing media face mounting challenges - but also major opportunities - in a rapidly changing environment: a shift to HD for television and to high - resolution digital for cinema, a proliferation of new camera formats, and an explosion in outlets for delivering media. In...
When a person first picks up a digital camera and hold it in his or her hands, many thoughts go through the head. Initially, one might simply wonder where the power button is, or how to turn on the LCD monitor. Soon, the individual reaches a crossroads with two options....
There are certain shots that are difficult to acquire, particularly those that are shot from a moving vehicle. Instead of building some elaborate apparatus to mount the camera to a car, one can purchase a heavy-duty suction cup, with camera mount, called The Cleat. It is manufactured by PowrGrip (http://www.powrgrip.com)...
This article demonstrates how low quality camera images can be used to automatically alert when an unusual number of people are absent or present at a location. It reports on experiments using publicly available, inexpensive cameras already operational over the Web. A "historical database" H for each camera is constructed...
The most popular gift-giving item of the 2004 holiday season enjoyed strong sales throughout 2004, according to year-end digital camera sales figures released by the Consumer Electronics Association CEA. Digital cameras are one of the most popular CE items on the market today - not just for gift-giving, but for...
Whether the phones are ringing, camera trucks are showing up at a worksite, union leadership is speaking at a public hearing, or a regulator is issuing safety warnings about a person's product, it's pretty clear that the person has got a crisis. Instead of days or weeks, he has got...
Poor visibility conditions often lead to large-scale chain accidents causing human fatalities and property damage. Such visibility-related vehicle accidents could have been prevented if motorists were warned ahead of time to reduce speed and remain cautious before moving into the poor visibility zone. The objective of this research was to...
LightKit is a system for lighting three-dimensional synthetic scenes. LightKit simplifies the task of producing visually pleasing, easily interpretable images for visualization while making it harder to produce results where the scene illumination distracts from the visualization process. LightKit is based on lighting designs developed by artists and photographers and...
This paper presents CAMEO, the Camera Assisted Meeting Event Observer, which is a physical awareness system designed for use by an agent-based electronic assistant. CAMEO is an inexpensive high-resolution omni directional vision system designed to be used in meeting environments. The paper also highlights that the multiple camera design achieves...
The introduction of Spartan-3 devices has created multiple changes in the evolution of embedded control designs and pushed processing capabilities to the "almost free stage." With these new FPGAs falling under $20, in volume, with over 1 million system gates, and under $5 for 100K gate-level units, any design with...
A low cost progress data collection technique was proposed for construction sites using time-lapse video. The authors build on their existing research on 4D CAD and geometric, parameter-based 4D models and apply computer vision techniques to webcam images of construction sites to provide frequent, rapid, and automated feedback on the...
In this paper the fundamental tasks of a computer measuring system incorporating a CCD cameras were defined. A method for the determination and elimination of camera noise using a multiple exposition approach was shown. Some research results on the level of noise and possible impacts of noise elimination were presented.
