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Machinegun Camera Shock: The Beginning of the Second Generation of Digital Cameras
The Future Comes Closer
High-speed continuous shooting and image recognition will revolutionize the user experience
Initial advancements of the second generation of digital cameras have begun. A core function is provided by auto shutter systems employing high-speed continuous shooting and image recognition technologies. Image recognition technology is also likely to alter functions for “viewing” photos on the camera screen. Any company will be able to make a camera, but what is needed now is the ability to completely restyle the user’s experience. The manufacturers who are able to turn out such a product will emerge as winners in the market for second generation digital cameras.
Existing Digital Camera Analysis
EX-F1 high-speed continuous shooting camera—issues remain despite immense novelty
Casio Computer Co., Ltd.’s EX-F1 camera incorporates high-speed continuous shooting technology able to capture sixty frames per second.What kind of experience does the camera offer the user?We borrowed and tested a prototype.Our analysis might provide ideas for future product planning and technological development.
Special Feature
Can WiMAX Really Go “Mobile?”
Increasing the Efficiency of Power Amplifiers Is of Sudden Concern
Transcoding Is the Key to Connecting Digital Devices
The high-definition television (HDTV) age is really setting in. However, the arrival of HDTV is not all good news for digital devices.While improvements to image quality are achieved, content adaptation becomes more difficult.“Transcoding” is viewed as a potential way to overcome this issue.The technique will one day realize full interconnection between all kinds of digital devices.
Magnetic Sensors: Demand for All-In-One Type ICs Is Quickly Expanding with Competition Focused on Dimensions and Allowing Freedom in Design
The market for magnetic sensors, which have a long history, has expanded considerably recently, spurred by such applications as detecting the opening and closing of flip-style mobile phones.Magnetic sensors are steadily becoming smaller and thinner—products have emerged with a 1mm2 surface and around 0.4mm thickness.With a growing number of companies manufacturing magnetic sensors, this article explains the criteria for selection and the characteristics of enabling technologies.
Academy 2 Part 6
Making a Detailed Design Model (1st half)
Documentary
Developing a Soldering Iron for Lead Free Solder: This Overflow of Ideas is Such a Waste
Tutorial
Introduction to CMOS RF Circuitry Design (Part 4): The Architecture of an Easily Integrated RF Transceiver
Single-chip integration of wireless transceivers progressed rapidly from the late 1990’s due to successive development of transceiver architectures that facilitated integration better than earlier superheterodyne techniques.This installment introduces the characteristics and issues for each of the architectures.
How Engineers Can Utilize Patent Information (Part 2): Looking at Automobile and Semiconductor Patents, in the 2000s the Borders between Technologies Are Rapidly Coming Closer
This second installment in our series introducing methods for examining technological developments using patent information analyzes the relationship between automobiles and semiconductors.The technological gap between automobiles and semiconductors has closed quickly since 2000.Through patents, we reveal the technological strategies of companies working in the domain bordering on the two markets.
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Key Person
Taipei Computer Association, Akira Yoshimura: “Japanese Companies Should More Fully Utilize the Strengths of Taiwanese Manufacturers”
Watcher
Samsung: The Source of Globally Competitive Power Is Acquiring Creative People
NE Interview
YokohamaScienceFrontierHigh School, Permanent SuperAdvisor, Akiyoshi Wada: “I Want to Raise People Who Can Effectively Use Science”
The City of Yokohama will open the YokohamaScienceFrontierHigh School in April 2009 as it reorganizes the TsurumiIndustrialHigh School. The school will be making the transformation from an industrial high school that trains human resources for manufacturing centers into a prep school specializing in science and mathematics. Special advisor to the school, Akiyoshi Wada, was the one who pushed for the school’s lean towards science in the committee deliberating on policy for the school’s reorganization. Wada is also responsible for inviting an elite group of scientists to serve as special advisors to the high school, including two Nobel Prize winners—Masatoshi Koshiba, known for his Kamiokande experiment, and Harold Kroto, who discovered fullerenes. We asked him about the current need for a high school teaching the sciences.
News
- Apple Releases the iPhone SDK
- Pioneer Retires from Manufacturing Plasma Display Panels
- An iPod nano Causes a Spark “The Father of the Opteron” Starts a New Company which Optimizes Memory Performance in the Chipset
- Displaying Datacasting Causes a Problem in Hitachi’s LCD Televisions
- Zuken Develops an Upper Process Support Tool for Device Design
