February 2015 – The SPIE Advanced Lithography conference in San Jose featured 7 technical track conferences in one venue. The primary focus was on two tracks: (1) the highly anticipated arrival of EUV [Extreme Ultraviolet] lithography [Conference 9422] and (2) Alternative Lithography Technologies [Conference 9423]. The EUV track has 14 sections covering viability and need…
January 24, 2012, SPIE Electronic Imaging Conference, Burlingame, CA—Pete Bradshaw and Debargha Mukherjee from Google describe their efforts in promoting 3-D videos. The first issue facing adoption of 3-D is that there is very little content available. Some of the first 3-D videos took a lot of work just to get the two cameras set…
January 24, 2012, SPIE, Electronic Imaging Conference, Burlingame, CA—William Freeman from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology talked about computational photography. Today’s digital cameras have only replaced the imaging system, using a semiconductor imager versus film. Most of the camera functions are still analog. In computational photography the user can modify any or all of the…
January 24, 2012, SPIE Electronic Imaging Conference, Burlingame, CA—two technical teams presented the issues and suggested solutions for cinematic to television conversion for good 3-D. The complementary talks described the basic technology and specific techniques for the conversion processes. Didier Doyen noted that the problems are due to the changes in size and viewing distance…