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Multi-primary Color Calibration
February 2016, Electronic Imaging, San Francisco—Carlos Eduardo Rodriguez-Pardo from the University of Rochester described a procedure for calibrating displays with more than the standard 3-color displays. The challenge is to provide a display that still has a continuous color spectrum. The current mode of 3-color displays has some issues with realistic matching to human vision….
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Enhanced 4k Media Experiences
August 19, 2015, Intel Developer Forum, San Francisco—Hong Jiang from Intel talked about the improvements in the GPU functions that will enable a better user experience for 4k TV. The changes to the graphics engines and functionality are also important for the newest graphics APIs that have fine-grained and direct GPU access and control. The…
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A 3-Axis Gyroscope with Continuous Self-Test
February 25, 2015, ISSCC, San Francisco—Ganesh Balachandran from Bosch presented the design of a 3-axis gyroscope for electronic stability control (ESC) with continuous self test. Active and passive control systems are the driver for more functionality and capability within a car and these functions create a need for more sensors. In a car, a gyroscope…
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Maxim demos target IoT control
October 2014 – Maxim Integrated held an AE and press demo event to show off their new kits for the for the Internet of Things (IoT) product area. These new kits were targeted at wellness and medical electronics as well as standard industrial control. The wellness products had the highlight of the second-generation FIT2 which…
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Open Control Architecture Alliance
October 11, 2014, Audio Engineering Society Convention, Los Angeles—The Open Control Architecture Alliance is releasing a new open source specification to allow greater control interoperability in digital audio systems. Three years in the making, the new standard follows the move of A-V workflows from analog to digital and an IT infrastructure. The other work on…
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Fireside Chat with Shinsuke Sato
August 2, 2013, San Francisco Japanese Film Festival—Shinsuke Sato, director of the film “Library Wars” talked about his film and the inspiration for this work. Censorship is becoming a world-wide issue, and the ongoing challenge is to balance freedom and public interests. This film looks at the possible responses and intents in both parts of…
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Ross at Nab 2013
April 7, 2013, National Association of Broadcasters, Las Vegas—We talked with Ross Video about their latest product releases. The inception of social media is changing the nature of broadcast, and the underlying equipment has to change to meet the new requirements. Social polling is showing trends and history in many areas. The analytics and visualizations…
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UI Design for Touchscreens
February 4, 2013, Electronic Imaging Conference, Burlingame, CA—Thomas Bindre from Nik Software presented concepts for selective editing of images on touchscreen devices. The growth of smart mobile devices allows picture-taking capabilities anywhere, but the quality of most pictures is poor. Editing can be a global operation, where all pixels are changed with some parameter, or…
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Server Data Optimizes Cooling
November 27, 2012, Server Design Summit, Santa Clara, CA—Akhil Docca from Future Facilities presented concepts for using data from the servers to control the cooling for the systems. Some of these data are already used for monitoring and control, so this is mostly a redirection of data from other purposes to cooling. Current chips have…