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RSS lensA Vision Based Approach to Wireless Optical Networking
White Paper Transmissions over a distance of 30 feet (9 meters) were also achieved by employing an 18X optical zoom lens assembly. This paper presents a new approach to wireless optical networking. In contrast to traditional laser/photo-diode based... [18 Jul 2008]
10 things we'd change on the 3G iPhone
Comment And while we don't expect Apple to stretch itself that much we'd like at least three megapixels - and a better lens please. But that doesn't mean there aren't a few things for Apple to think about for the next time round. [14 Jul 2008]
Phillips Plastics' Focus on Innovation and Time-to-Market Enable Rapid Development of Sleek, Patented Chemical Splash Goggles
White Paper With this as a start, and some baseline data such as lens thickness criteria determined by an optics expert, the design work on the goggles began with the shaping of the surfaces using NX's freeform modeling capability. [14 Jan 2008]
New Technology Provides Robust Business Platform for Contact Lens Maker
White Paper Innovative contact lens maker Clearlab UK Ltd needed a robust, high performance computer system to support expansion of its automated contact lens manufacturing operations. This became an issue when the business came to the end of a period of... [02 Nov 2007]
Photoshop CS2 Raw: Reducing Noise, Correcting Chromatic Aberrations & Controlling Vignetting
White Paper Vignetting - darkening around image edges - occurs with a filter/lens/sensor mismatch. With varying degrees, all digital cameras produce images with electronic noise, chromatic aberrations, and vignetting. [17 Oct 2007]
IT Service Management Process Maps: Select Your Route to ITIL Best Practice
White Paper The Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) has become the de facto standard in IT Service Management (ITSM) best practice and the lens through which the value of IT service is viewed and measured. [07 Oct 2007]
LaCie d2 Blu-Ray Drive
White Paper Because the data layer on a Blu-ray disc is placed much "Closer" to the laser lens than on a DVD/CD, the laser beam provides more precision. The LaCie d2 Blu-ray Drive uses a blue-violet laser and improved lens specifications (wavelength, NA... [25 Aug 2007]
More and More Companies Are Reaping the Rewards of IT and Software Asset Management: What Do They Know That You Don't?
White Paper This reactive model often leaves businesses scrambling to locate and assemble information regarding the whereabouts and entitlement status of specific software applications - wasting significant time and resources in the process - rather than... [06 Jul 2007]
Visibility Breakthrough: CooperVision Gains Clear Vision for Future
White Paper CooperVision has been helping contact lens wearers "see beyond the ordinary" since 1958. When CooperVision acquired Ocular Sciences, Inc.in 2004, the company became the world's third largest contact lens company. [02 Jun 2007]
Photos: High tech vans map out Europe
Photo The co-driver watches the screen to check image quality and to make sure nothing gets onto the camera lens. The Dutch company is one of two major European mapping organisations - the other being Navteq - that provide maps to sat-nav manufacturers. [21 May 2007]
Contact Lens Provider Has Clearer Vision of Business With New Data Warehouse
White Paper 1-800 CONTACTS, the leading contact lens provider in the world, sells to consumers across the United States through its Web site and toll-free call center. Company management was frustrated with its limited ability to directly access important data... [01 May 2007]
A Variational Approach to Calibration of Multiple Cameras
White Paper This paper addresses the problem of calibrating camera parameters such as lens distortion and color scaling using variational methods. The paper presents multi-view stereo techniques based on variational ideas to evolve pose parameters of a 3D... [06 Jan 2007]
Fisheye Tree Views and Lenses for Graph Visualization
White Paper Composite Lenses are the result of the integration of several lens techniques. This paper presents interactive visual aids to support the exploration and navigation of graph layouts. It includes Fisheye Tree Views and Composite Lenses. [12 Dec 2006]
XQuery Flowers
White Paper XQuery's purpose is to find, retrieve, and rearrange data viewed through the lens of XML. Query is an XML query language developed and standardized by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). XQuery is the syntax, and XML expressions are what a person... [13 Oct 2006]
Eye Care Pioneer Looks to Outsourced Disaster Recovery Solution
White Paper In the wake of 9-11, CooperVision - a contact lens pioneer for decades, realized the importance of an offsite data center to their business continuance plans. They briefly considered implementing an offsite disaster recovery location managed by the... [09 Aug 2006]
