Imaging and Video Equipment Reference Materials

Description: The Environment America Research & Policy Center says in recent years, beekeepers have been reporting they are losing, on average, 30 percent of all honeybee colonies each winter. This is twice the ...

Description: Tiago Rebelo is the Director of the Product & Service Development Unit at CEiiA, the Centre of Engineering and Product Development that designs, develops and implements high-tech solutions to push ...

Description: MicroPlasma Ozone (MPO3) manufactures Smart Ozone Systems to automatically maintain the health of in-ground residential and small commercial swimming pools. Ozone is a powerful disinfectant; a more ...

Description: LCD displays with touch screen are used in more and more applications. Here is a simple example on how touch screen is implemented. ...

Description: Photonis Scientific was designated as a critical healthcare infrastructure company and has remained open during this challenging time by adapting safe work practices in the factory. ...

Description: Keeping product quality consistent is a major topic for manufacturer, so is making sure LCD uniform display effect. ...

Description: Highlighting TiM$10K Project Submissions from Students at Texas A&M University ...

Description: PWM is used in a variety of applications including sophisticated control circuitry, LCD backlight control is one of the applications. ...

Description: Like a lot of folks, I'm a fan of shows like CSI and NCIS, which demonstrate the ways that forensic technology can be used to solve crimes. I know that what's portrayed may not be 100% realistic in ...

Description: LCD display looks lighter (blur) when the temperature drops; while the background appears 'ghosting' when the temperature increases. ...

Description: Film & filter enhancements are an effective way to unlock your LCD's potential. Improve screen vivacity and clarity, enhance brightness and optimize light transmission. ...

Description: Most EV Chargers are installed outdoor. Which requires their screens to survive punitive working environment. ...

Description: Visualization is an important parameter in modern medical field and nowadays almost exclusively realized by use of Liquid Crystal Display, especially TFT LCD. ...

Description: TFT color LCD is now the de-facto standard for most applications. So how do you choose the right TFT display? ...

Description: The type of image the display will create is a cosmetic issue LCD user needs to decide at the beginning. This is the easiest choice since there are only two basic selections. ...

Description: There's no question that chiller and condenser operational effectiveness can greatly impact building operating costs. Predictive maintenance and optimization of these crucial hydronic HVAC system ...

Description: An East Coast university deployed an accurate and reliable flow measurement solution to help make informed decisions about steam and energy allocation. The use of differential pressure flow meters ...

Description: Identifying leaks in hydronic closed systems is critical to reducing the overall cost of commercial/industrial building operation, while maintaining the superior performance desired. Facility owners ...

Description: Demanding lift station applications in the water and wastewater industry call for a reliable, accurate and non-invasive flow measurement solution. Crucially, the flow metering equipment has to be easy ...

Description: Smart LCD Module is Topway's solution to off-load heavy lifting of display & touch control from host MCU, and simplify engineer's development effort. ...

Description: At one point or another, most of us - in search of a tasty tomato in the dead of winter, or a head of Bibb lettuce for a salad - have picked up some hydroponic produce at the grocery store. I take it ...

Description: This past Monday should have seen the running of the Boston Marathon. I'm not a marathoner, but it's hard not to pay just a bit of attention to Boston, the longest running (since 1897) marathon in the ...

Description: "Show this interface", "Update that value on screen", "User's input is" ... Smart LCD module introduces high-level programming capabilities, and encapsulates all display logic. No more pixel drawing. ...

Description: Todays consumers expect the highest quality from devices like smartphones, televisions and laptops-and not only for diplay screens the but for keyboards. Manufacturers of laptops and keyboards need to ...

Description: Warehouses that used to focus on replenishing retail stores with pallet-sized shipments have transformed into fulfillment centers adept at shipping e-commerce orders direct to consumers and store ...

Description: The future is here and Industry 4.0 applications have become a reality. The reliable control of mobile platforms is an important part of this development. Automated guided vehicles (AGVs) are ...

Description: Everyday, most of us will look at a LCD screen at least once. Different types of LCD panels have different characteristics. ...

Description: I don't know about you, but I actually don't mind a little peace and quiet when I'm pumping gas. But with BP's latest development, going to the gas station may turn into a whole new interactive ...

Description: Touch screens have become very commonplace in our day-to-day lives. Devices using touch panels to enable user interaction without the use of keyboard or mouse. But do you know there are couple ...

Description: A friend of mine recently received an invitation to attend a demo of the Steinway Spirio, a high-res player piano. Anyway, my friend wasn't able to go and see Spirio for herself, but she thought I ...

Description: I'm an overall tech person, with a longtime interest in robotics. So I find the growing number of new robotics applications - medical, manufacturing, assistive, even some of those built for a less ...

Description: AMETEK Surface Vision is helping nonwoven material manufacturers meet increased demands for the production of personal protective equipment (PPE). ...

Description: A Comprehensive Guide to the Technical Requirements for Building a Vision System for Your Unique Imaging Application ...

Description: By using camera filters to accomplish Ultra Violet (UV) imaging, more information and details outside of the visible spectrum can be revealed that can benefit a variety of imaging applications. ...

Description: Understand Filter Types and their Usefulness in Various Imaging Applications ...

Description: This blog post focuses on six optical aberrations, how they occur, and how to prevent them / reduce their negative impacts on your vision system. ...

Description: Important camera parameters to consider when selecting components to build an aerial imaging system ...

Description: Understand the advantages of using multiple cameras for aerial imaging ...

Description: Even if we keep it relatively simple by using the same password - or variants of it - for multiple purposes, or we use some sort of single-sign on application, it's still hard and irritating to keep ...

Description: Wednesday, October 5, 2016 Once again, there's been a train accident which, if there'd been Positive Train Control (PTC) in use, might have been avoided. So once again, we're revisiting PTC. ...

Description: At the heart of pretty much every engineer I know - and I know a lot of engineers - there's a tinkerer, an inventor, a dreamer. It's just the way we think and operate. So I very much enjoyed an ...

Description: It's probably safe to say that one of the things that's first and foremost on all our minds these days is the coronavirus pandemic. And it's not just on our minds, but in our everyday lives that are ...

Description: It's something that I'm pretty sure we've all been guilty of. Our shopping carts are bigger than our stomachs, and as much as we think we're going to use every last bit of what we put in those carts, ...

Description: As someone who has always enjoyed driving, I have mixed emotions about the pending arrival of autonomous cars. On the one hand, I'm intrigued by the use of technology - all those embedded systems! On ...

Description: Dating back to my graduate school days - now a few decades in the rear-view mirror - I've had a long-running interest in robotics, and I'm always on the lookout for new applications. One that I came ...

Description: As we're nearing that great time of year when local farm stands (and neighbors' backyard gardens) have local tomatoes, I couldn't resist what appears to be an advertorial by Analog Devices (a.k.a. ...

Description: The human eye has an iris and a pupil which is the opening that allows light to pass through. A similar system operates within a camera lens, but instead, the iris is made of pieces of metal ...

Description: Even with sophisticated lens systems, it can be difficult to get an entire image in focus. With any spherical surface, light will bend differently depending where on the surface the light is passing ...

Description: When selecting a digital microscope camera for applications where a live preview in real time is crucial, such as electrophysiology, the sensitivity of the camera is a key factor as it can often ...

Description: With camera sensors being able to transfer more and more data, choosing the right interface is crucial for any imaging application. Two popular interfaces are USB and GigE. Their cables and connectors ...

Description: At one of the largest municipal water treatment departments in the United States, 1,400 employees work hard to keep clean water flowing through the taps of households and businesses over a ...

Description: Siemens answers with SITRANS FS230 clamp-on meter. ...

Description: I guess it was inevitable. After all the hype. After all those forecasts of kabillions of connected devices. After all the cool videos showing smart everythings. There seems to be a bit of a backlash ...

Description: We've been hearing for years that newspapers and magazines will be dying out, any day now. We want our news in real-time, and we want it in video format. Print? That's for old timers with time to read ...

Description: There's an old sci-fi movie, from the 60's, called Fantastic Voyage. The plotline has a scientist defecting to the West, who's shot in an assassination attempt and needs a blood clot removed from his ...

Description: As a car guy (and a tech guy), I often find myself blogging about topics related to automotive technology. And then sometimes I remember that I'm also a dog guy (and a tech guy), and I start noticing ...

Description: At Critical Link, we're - of course - quite partial to DSP. Many of our clients have deployed System on Modules that contain DSP. And way back in the day (about a decade back in the day), our original ...

Description: I wouldn't have come up with the idea, but when I think about it, it was only a matter of time before someone came up with the idea of a "new combat sport and entertainment experience." That someone ...

Description: I'm a car guy. I'm also a tech guy. So when I see a story that combines car and tech, I'm always interested - even if, these days, such stories do seem to come fast and furious. The recent ...

Description: When we think about the Internet of Things (IoT), for most of us, the first thought is probably a Nest thermostat or some other connected appliance or home device, or a fitness application like ...

Description: A recent estimate by Goldman Sachs reports that augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) are expected to grow into an $80 billion to $90 billion market by 2025. But will the promise of AR and ...

Description: One of the most interesting and rapidly growing application areas for the Internet of Things (IoT) is the development of smart cities. Smart cities use sensors to collect data, and then use that data ...

Description: I've been hearing a lot about Li-Fi lately, which is getting plenty of hype in the tech press. And why wouldn't it be getting hyped? It promises to be 100x faster than standard Wi-Fi speeds. Which ...

Description: Many years ago, I heard it said that, at the time of the introduction of the steam engine in England, the changes over just one generation were so profound that a parent born before the Industrial ...

Description: I'm out in San Francisco this week for Photonics West, and, while on the elliptical in my hotel the other day, I caught up on some of my reading. One of the most interesting articles I came across was ...

Description: This is Upstate New York, so it's too early to call game over with respect to snowfall. It's only late February, after all, and we've been known to have snow in May. Still, the corner has been turned. ...

Description: As most "tech watchers" are no doubt aware, early January always means the Consumer Electronics Show, held each year in Las Vegas. Critical Link doesn't tend to get involved on the consumer-side, but ...

Description: With our youngest just off to college, we're well beyond Santa at our house, but I still like to do a bit of virtual window shopping for toys, especially to see what's out there that appeals to my ...

Description: One of the downsides of the Internet of Things (IoT) is the often flimsy security that comes along with them. This is especially true on the consumer side. Before we ever heard of the IoT, there was ...

Description: I recently came across an article (published last spring) on IKEA's "Concept Kitchen 2025", a collaboration between IKEA, IDEO and some university student designers. It's all a bit Jetsons, but quite ...

Description: Today, we celebrate Veterans Day. So now is as good a time as any to focus for a bit on military technology. An article by Editorial Director John McHale in Military Embedded Systems 2015 Resource ...

Description: To me, kangaroos are one of those goofy-looking animals that manage to put a smile on your face. But if you live - and drive - in Australia, they're not a laughing matter. In fact, it's reported that ...

Description: With the celebration of July's 50th anniversary of the moon landing, I've been reading a lot about Apollo 11, especially the technology involved in it all. What's most interesting is how primitive by ...

Description: In September, I had a post on ARM and the Internet of Things (IoT). We're interested in ARM, of course, because we have a number of ARM-based SOMs - the MitySOM-5CSx, the MitySOM-335x, and the ...

Description: A common problem with some indoor AGVs is that sometimes using just a safety-rated sensor, like a safety laser scanner, doesn't provide enough coverage, particularly above the laser scan plane. But ...

Description: Much like other industries, the automotive industry is changing. With the increase in the variety of vehicle models, variants, and derivatives being produced and the shorter product life cycles in the ...

Description: The Edge in Amsterdam is the world's greenest building. BREEAM - the Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Methodology, a British rating system - awarded The Edge a sustainability ...

Description: For my fitness tracker, I have a Jawbone UP3, which bills itself as "the most advanced tracker you can buy." I like it, but I'm still waiting for some of the more advanced functions that they promised ...

Description: For a number of years, researchers have been working on brain implants that will help with memory loss. Now it's been reported that devices that can restore memory-generation capability for those ...

Description: Don't know if you caught TI's announcement last week, but there's a new kid in town in their Sitara processor family. ...

Description: When thinking about marketing tools, the first thoughts that come to mind are often things like social media, advertising, logos and promotions. But what about the tools in your truck? How can your ...

Description: While addressing fatigue issues associated with human visual inspectors, traditional machine vision systems have not typically been able to match their visual acuity when it comes to spotting subtle ...

Description: Radiant's Advanced Vision solutions are a new class of automated visual inspection technology. Our approach combines the benefits of automated machine vision inspection systems with the power of true ...

Description: From Critical Link's point of view, one of the most exciting things about the Internet of Things (IoT) is that it's pretty much synonymous with embedded technology. And from Critical Link's point of ...

Description: Over the summer, I took my kids out to a weekend breakfast at a local Panera. If you've never been to a Panera, they've always (in my experience) had a system where, after you placed your order, they ...

Description: Somewhere along the line, I bookmarked an article on a robot used to study volcanoes. I finally got around to reading it, and thought it would make for an interesting blog post. So here goes. NASA's ...

Description: I recently heard that CVS will be phasing out its one-hour film processing. Walgreen's is doing the same, if it hasn't done so already. Let's face it, most pictures these days are taken on a ...

Description: Regular followers of the Critical Link blog will know that I've been interested in robots since my grad school days at UMass, when I got to work with a robot named Harvey. So, naturally, I enjoyed a ...

Description: There's some interesting news on the CMOS front that I wanted to share with you. This past May, in Europe, two different consortia began work on CMOS image sensor projects. ...

Description: I'm always on the lookout for interesting and novel uses of technology - especially when it involves technology that Critical Link works with. So naturally, I was drawn to an article I saw a few weeks ...

Description: We keep hearing that, any day now, drones will be making our Amazon deliveries, dropping off that pair of sneakers, those earbuds we couldn't live another day without. In truth, most of our consumer ...

Description: Like most of the world, I was saddened by the devastating fire that did so much damage to Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris last month. You don't have to have been to this magnificent building, nor do you ...

Description: There is a need for an easy-to-installed portable flowmeter to verify the accuracy and function of the permanently installed flowmeters. The volumetric flow must be recorded over time. This data can ...

Description: With a son who's been a volunteer firefighter and EMT since he's been in high school and is now a professional engineer working in fire equipment sales and support, you can best believe that I was ...

Description: We seem to have our share of automotive-related posts on the Critical Link blog, but that's because there's so much interesting technology going into cars these days. And it's technology that most of ...

Description: I'm always on the lookout for stories about the different ways image processing is put to work, but an article I saw a couple of months back in Vision Systems Design was one of the most interesting. ...

Description: Before my wife and I know it, we're going to be empty-nesters, and that will mean a bit less pressure to get a good meal on the table every evening. I was thinking that maybe we'd start eating out ...

Description: I recently had a diagnostic ultrasound, and while I was laying there on the table looking at the fuzzy, grainy image, something occurred to me. And that something was that the image quality doesn't ...

Description: I'm not much of a baseball fan, but I do know that it's the most data-intensive sport, and has been recording just about everything that can be recorded for an awful long time. And now Major League ...

Description: Today's electronics consumers expect a flawless device right out of the box. Scratches, dents, smudges or other imperfections can damage your brand's reputation or result in costly returns. ...