May 2015 ~ engineering information technology

FrinGOe Unveils Consumer FT Spectrometer

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FrinGOe announces a cheap Fourier Transform spectrometer of consumer applications. The optical part of the spectrometer is a passive add-on for iPhone or Raspberry Pi camera. The company's whitepaper...

Arctic Methane Skyrocketing

The map below shows observatories in the Arctic.'Arctic methane skyrocketing' is the title of a video by Paul Beckwith discussing recent rises in methane levels in the Arctic.Paul's description: "I discuss...

Apple Acquires Metaio

Techcrunch reports that Apple has apparently acquired a German AR company Metaio. The company has a number of AR projects, one of them being Thermal Touch covered in this blog a year ago. Another interesting project out of many was an AR application for camera-equipped smart watch (Youtube lin...

Target and Carrefour Test VLC

Electronics360: Carrefour SA, the largest retailer in Europe, is experimenting with visible light communications, becoming the first major retailer to install Philips’ connected lighting system with LED-based...

Omnivision Reports Quarterly and Yearly Results

PRNewswire: Omnivision reports quarterly results for its fiscal quarter ended on April 30, 2015.Revenues for the fiscal year ended April 30, 2015 were $1.4 billion, as compared to $1.5 billion in fiscal 2014. GAAP net income for fiscal 2015 was $93.4 million, as compared to $95.0 million a year ago.Revenues...

Google Presents VR Shooting Setup with 16 Cameras

Google presents 16-GoPro-cameras JUMP setup for shooting VR video at its I/O conference:Cnet video shows how it wor...

Pelican Imaging Expands into Array of Different Cameras

Up to now, Pelican Imaging camera components in the array had the same FOV and viewing direction. Its new patent application US20150146029 "Array Camera Configurations Incorporating Multiple Constituent...

Ximea on Hyperspectral Imaging

German machine vision camera vendor Ximea CEO Max Larin discusses hyperspectral imagers approaches and applications in this Youtube vid...

Arctic Sea Ice in Uncharted Territory

On May 27, 2015, Arctic sea ice extent was merely 11.973 million square kilometers, a record low for the time of the year since satellite started measurements in 1979. This fall in sea ice extent follows...

Sony 2015 IR Day

Sony has held a 2015 Investor Relations Day today. Device Segment presentation by Tomoyuki Suzuki, Executive Deputy President and Corporate Executive Officer responsible for the Device business, has a...

Samsung Presents 1um RWB Pixels

PhoneArena quotes Chinese-language MyDrivers.com posting pictures from Samsung image sensor seminar. Samsung presents its 1um RWB color patterned sensors, said to provide much better low light sensit...

Canon vs IV Patent Arguments

Delaware Intellectual Property Litigation publishes a detailed document on trial where Intellectual Ventures accuses Canon in patent infringement, including two image sensor patents: US6,221,686 "Method of making a semiconductor image sensor" and US6,023,081 "Semiconductor image sensor." Canon has lost...

Hamamatsu Image Sensor Sales

Hamamatsu reports its quarterly results, including image sensor sal...

Assorted Market Data

China Galaxy International comes with a wide collection of market data, primarily about Apple camera module supplier Cowell and the camera module industry in gener...

Audi Parners with Gestigon to Develop Gesture Control in Cars

gestigon announces that they provide the gesture control software used in Audi’s booth at the CES ASIA in Shanghai. The first result of this cooperation is to, initially, provide an unique user experience for the rear seat passengers of Audi’s luxury car models enabling the user interaction with the...

Sleeping Giant in the Arctic

Huge amounts of carbon are contained in sediments, soils and vegetation in the Arctic. Rising temperatures in the Arctic threaten to cause much of this carbon to be released to the atmosphere.On May...

For Want of a Spectrum Allocation: The Philadelphia Train Derailment

There's a proverb of uncertain origin that begins, "For want of a nail, the shoe was lost, for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the rider was lost; being overtaken and slain by the enemy, all for want of care about a horse-shoe nail." That particular...

Fluor Arabia: Construction Superintendant - Piping/Welding

Construction Superintendant - Piping/Welding Job Description The purpose of this position is to oversee and direct the performance of all field construction activities for assigned craft in conformance with plans, specifications, schedules, and cost estimates. This position requires a working knowledge...

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