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How SMore ViMo Accelerate Automatic Detection in Automotive
Description: As the market conditions are complex and competitve, quality control is an indispensable part of the automotive industry since many items can't be handled manually. There is an upward trend for ...
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LCD Module's Interfaces & Selection
Description: Topway TFT LCD module and graphic LCD display module come with different interfaces and screen sizes, are suitable for diverse types of applications. ...
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How to Implement LCD Display Resistive Touch Function
Description: As smart phone leading the touch screen trend, more and more applications like medical LCD display, industry TFT display are embedding touch panels into the LCD screen. There are several LCD touch ...
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TFT LCD Interface
Description: A TFT LCD display module consists of a TFT LCD panel, one or more COG (chip-on-glass) or COB (chip-on-board) driver ICs, a backlight, and an interface. Several TFT display interface technologies exist ...
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How to Choose Your Specific Barcode Reader?
Description: Various barcode readers are adapted to different use scenarios and needs in the current market. It will be easier to choose a suitable barcode reader knowing the following basic information and ...
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TFT LCD Display - Smart Home Application
Description: Smart home's devices are interconnected and can be accessed through one central point, the "hub". This could be a smartphone or a control panel with TFT LCD display. ...
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Application Example: Detection of the Screws in the Feeder
From: SensoPartDescription: The challenge:The reflective material and the surface structure make it difficult to detect the screws in the bunker feed system. In addition, a certain distance to the conveyor line must be ...
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Overcoming Conveying Challenges By Using A Tube Conveyor System
From: Cablevey ConveyorsDescription: Conveying material in any industry can be a difficult task. When deciding on the best conveyor system to use, careful consideration must be paid to the following factors: features of the conveyed ...
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Why are HDR Cameras Important - and What are their Major Embedded Vision Use Cases?
From: e-con Systems™ IncDescription: HDR cameras are key to enabling embedded cameras to capture images in challenging lighting conditions. In this edition of the Camera Applications series, get to know some of the most popular embedded ...
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Why Sony STARVIS Cameras are Ideal for Medical & Life Sciences Applications?
From: e-con Systems™ IncDescription: Many camera-enabled medical devices need to operate in challenging lighting conditions. In this article, learn about some of those medical applications, the key camera features required for them, and ...
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Accurately Measuring Dust in Cement Plants to Reduce Emissions
From: SICKDescription: The human eye can't tell the difference from a water droplet or dust particle. Measuring instruments that specialize in measuring dust concentrations in wet gas help with this. However, not all dust ...
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Caretaker Medical Case Study
From: 4D Systems Pty., Ltd.Description: Caretaker Medical is an innovative digital health company focused on developing wireless patient-monitoring technologies that improve patient outcomes. One of those technologies, VitalStream, is a ...
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Decoding Custom Barcodes using e-con Cameras
From: e-con Systems™ IncDescription: Retail automation paves the way for innovation in barcodes ...
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How Embedded Vision is Contributing to the AI Revolution in Autonomous Tractors
From: e-con Systems™ IncDescription: What is an AI-enabled autonomous tractor? What are its functions? ...
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What is Lens Vignetting - and How to Eliminate it in Embedded Cameras?
From: e-con Systems™ IncDescription: What is lens vignetting? ...
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What is Strobe Function in a Camera? How to Enable Strobe in e-con's 13MP USB Cameras?
From: e-con Systems™ IncDescription: How does the strobe function work? ...
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Why RGB-IR Cameras are Crucial to Enable Imaging Performance in Key Medical Applications
From: e-con Systems™ IncDescription: We all know that the usage of cameras is rapidly increasing in the field of medical and life science applications. They are used to capture critical imaging information that requires key features like ...
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Achieving a Frame Rate of 800 FPS with E-con's 13MP Camera Module
From: e-con Systems™ IncDescription: Why and where high frame rates are required? ...
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Airport Kiosk Camera - How to Choose the Perfect Embedded Camera for Airport Kiosks
From: e-con Systems™ IncDescription: Is there a need for airport kiosks? ...
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Auto White Balance Calibration for an Embedded Camera Lens
From: e-con Systems™ IncDescription: Understanding key concepts related to auto white balance calibration ...
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How to Choose the Perfect Camera for your Advanced Driver Assistance System (ADAS)
From: e-con Systems™ IncDescription: How does an Advanced Driver Assistance System (ADAS) work? ...
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LiDAR vs. Time of Flight for Depth Measurement: Similarities & Differences
From: e-con Systems™ IncDescription: With every new sensor innovation, the ability of embedded cameras to capture detailed images became exponentially better. So, when 3D sensor technology gained sufficient maturity, it catapulted the ...
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What is LiDAR Technology? How Does LiDAR Help in Depth Measurement?
From: e-con Systems™ IncDescription: What are the two types of LiDAR technologies? ...
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Why Low Latency Streaming is an Important Feature for many Embedded Vision Applications
From: e-con Systems™ IncDescription: What is low latency streaming - and why is it important? ...
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An Anti-Poaching Collar: Yet Another Interesting Application Using Sensors
From: Critical Link, LLCDescription: In today’s world, sensors are embedded in just about anything you can think of – from complex industrial and scientific equipment to – more recently – common everyday items. ...
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SICK Sensors in Action: The Autonomous Snowplow
From: SICKDescription: This isn’t just any old robot face-off…it’s a face-off of the SNOWbots! ION has put on the Autonomous Snowplow Competition for the past twelve years, calling all local, national, ...
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How Machine Vision Works in RIBE Anlagentechnik's Camera-Monitored Assembly Facility
From: SICKDescription: Quality assurance through programmed imaging: this sounds like a job for SICK sensors. The German company RIBE Anlagentechnik develops innovative assembly systems, including inspection systems, for ...
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What is Fenceless Safety?
From: SICKDescription: In this quick Q&A, SICK’s Director of Market Product Management, Steve Aamodt, walks us through the evolution of fenceless safety. ...
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Just What Is Embedded Imaging
From: Critical Link, LLCDescription: Imaging has long played a key role in industrial, scientific, medical, surveillance, and defense systems. More recently, we're seeing imaging creep into applications that us consumers are using in our ...
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RFusion: The Robot that Locates AND Retrieves your Lost Items
From: Critical Link, LLCDescription: When my Italian grandmother couldn't find something, she always said a prayer to St. Anthony, the patron saint of lost objects. "Dear St. Anthony, please look around. Something's lost and can't be ...
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What is a Good Flour?
From: KPM AnalyticsDescription: Precision is an important aspect in the baking process. From managing the quality of ingredients used in a recipe to controlling the baking temperature, time, and other stages in the baking process, ...
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The Spyce of Life, Robotically
From: Critical Link, LLCDescription: My fascination with robotics goes back a long way - to when I was in grad school. Robots back in the day couldn't do all that much, just a few mechanical things done in a way that made them look, ...
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Laminazione Sottile S.p.A. Case Study
From: AMETEK Surface VisionDescription: To meet increasing market demands and customer specifications, Laminazione was looking for an inspection system that would provide an extended and objective overview of coil quality in real time in ...
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Metsä Board CASE STUDY
From: AMETEK Surface VisionDescription: Metsä Board was looking to minimize or eliminate quality claims on board leaving the Husum mill, ensuring that a 100% inspected product leaves the factory, consistently meeting customer ...
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Leading Advancements in Panel Meter Technology
From: Red Lion Controls, Inc.Description: Using Versatile Control Options to Cost-Effectively Save Space ...
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Three Effective Visual Management Solutions
From: Red Lion Controls, Inc.Description: Strategic philosophies or practices such as Kaizen, Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, Total Quality Management and Continuous Improvement are used by many organizations to help improve processes, drive ...
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How Snack Cheese Producers Can Improve Product Quality & Consistency with Vision Inspection Technology
From: KPM AnalyticsDescription: Single-serve snack cheeses have long been a popular choice among dairy product consumers. Not only are they a great source of protein and an easy snack to have on the go, but the individual packaging ...
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Case Study - Redesign of an Outdoor LCD Display
Description: The customer came to Topway, looking for a solution to redeem their brand name. Topway has been working in LCD display industry for 20+ years, which brings us the know-how and experience to anticipate ...
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TFT LCD LVDS Interfaces & Colors
Description: LVDS is one of the main interfaces of TFT LCD display module. It has faster data transfer and lower power consumption than other interfaces. There is an article about LVDS interface. This time we chat ...
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TFT LCD Module for Banknote Processing System
Description: Inside BPS, TFT LCD is very closed to motor. Electromagnetic Interference is a main concern. Customer's engineers mentioned that they had major "ghosting" and noise problem on LCD screen, when they ...
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Digitised Food Production: Solutions for Tomorrow's Food Supply
From: ifm electronic gmbhDescription: The world's population is growing and, hence, the challenge for the global food and beverage industry to meet the growing demand for safe and high-quality products ...
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Automated Sorting Solutions for the Production of Processed Foods
From: KPM AnalyticsDescription: Optimizing the flow of product through your production line is key to driving profit. Installing an in-line or over-line Automated Inspection System at one or more points serves to identify ...
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White Paper: Pallet Detection Systems Help Automated Forklifts Modernize Warehouse Operations
From: ifm electronic gmbhDescription: The right 3D sensing system can help automated forklift trucks (AFT) achieve better than 98.5% pick accuracy and reduce mission time while simplifying even the toughest high-rack operations. ...
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TFT LCD Application - Banknote Processing System
Description: One of Topway's customers is working on a new desk-top banknote processing system with two output compartments. This time LMT090 series with capacitive touch is the chosen display. At the moment when ...
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Camera System Reduces Risk of Collision for Manned Forklift Trucks
From: SICKDescription: Imerys Fused Minerals Laufenburg, a global-leading supplier of minerals-based custom solutions, equipped a Linde forklift truck from the company Schöler Fördertechnik with SICK’s ...
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Case Study: When Logistics Automation and Digital Transformation Meet
From: SICKDescription: DS Smith, a worldwide leading provider of sustainable packaging solutions, paper products, and recycling services, needed to upgrade an end-of-line monitoring solution to automate a labor-intensive ...
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3D Solid-state LiDAR for Safety Area Protection
Description: In the production environment, we use protective cages and safety gates to protect humans from machine damage to achieve human-robot safety cooperation. Besides, what else can we use to build a ...
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Hypersen Chromatic Confocal Sensor for Film Thickness Measurement
Description: The thickness of industrially produced films is an important parameter. With the advancement of science and technology and the application of precision instruments, there are many methods for ...
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Industrial TFT Display vs Consumer LCD
Description: Understanding different requirements between industrial display and consumer TFT LCD, will help determine the best TFT LCD for your application. TFT LCD displays are everywhere in our daily lives; in ...
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Diapers Go High Tech: Yet Another App in Search of a Reason for Being
From: Critical Link, LLCDescription: My kids are all grown, so I've been out of the game for a good long while. And there are no grandkids on the immediate horizon, so it may be a while before I'm on diaper duty. But with three children, ...
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Optical Encoders in LiDAR Sensors
From: Boyd CorporationDescription: What is a LiDAR Sensor? ...
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Smart Display Solutions Enhance Lifestyle Choices, Health and Safety
From: 4D Systems Pty., Ltd.Description: Touchscreens form a significant aspect of the way we view and interact with the world. Most of us interact with digital displays and touchscreens multiple times daily. Banks, fast-food outlets, public ...
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How to Create Sunlight Readable TFT LCD
Description: There are two ways to build sunlight readable TFT LCD: to overpower the sunlight; or to work with the Sun. ...
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How Does an Industrial Conveyor System Work?
From: Cablevey ConveyorsDescription: How does an industrial conveyor system work? What do you need to know before you decide to purchase one for your business? ...
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The Complete Guide To Industrial Conveyors
From: Cablevey ConveyorsDescription: Conveyor systems are the backbone of industrial operations. Without them, manufacturers would not be able to efficiently transport large volumes of material from one place to the next within their ...
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What Are Industrial Conveyor Systems Used For?
From: Cablevey ConveyorsDescription: Conveyor technologies advanced considerably since the first conveyors came about. ...
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What Are The Different Types of Conveyors?
From: Cablevey ConveyorsDescription: When considering new conveyor system designs for your business, there are dozens of questions you need to answer. These will determine what type of conveying is best suited for your production ...
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The Role of the Smartview® Advanced Winder Advisor in Nonwovens Manufacture
From: AMETEK Surface VisionDescription: Advanced Winder Advisor (AWA) allows winders to be accurately and repeatedly stopped to remove defects while also increasing winder efficiency. AWA is designed to seamlessly integrate with SmartView ...
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Chemical Bonded
From: AMETEK Surface VisionDescription: There are several methods of chemical bonding, with the main four being print, spray, saturation and foam bonding. ...
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Composites
From: AMETEK Surface VisionDescription: The standard methods of nonwoven manufacture - thermal and chemical bonding, mechanical or spinning - can all be used for composite manufacture, so the same possibilities of surface flaws exist. ...
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Thermal Bonded
From: AMETEK Surface VisionDescription: Several methods of thermal bonding exist, with efficient bonding depending on factors including fabric thickness and the applied temperature. ...
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Thru-air Bonded
From: AMETEK Surface VisionDescription: Thru-air bonding is a variety of thermal bonding where heated air is applied to a fiber web as it moves along a conveyor belt. An effective process is well suited to producing a homogenous bond. ...
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Where Electronics is Headed (Part I)
From: Critical Link, LLCDescription: There's always something interesting on EE Times, and just the other day that something was a roundup by Rick Merritt of what the speakers at last week's Imec Technology Forum had to say. (Imec is an ...
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Where Electronics is Headed (Part II)
From: Critical Link, LLCDescription: In my last post, I summarized the first six views from 12 Views on the Future of Electronics an EE Times roundup of what was on the minds of speakers at the recent Imec Technology Forum. Here's my ...
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Leave Particle Defects "in the Dust" with Automated Visual Inspection of Glass & Films
From: Radiant Vision SystemsDescription: Today's electronic devices include multiple layers of glass, plastic, and transparent films, where particles can easily adhere or become trapped. As part of quality control processes, highly sensitive ...
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Historic Hotel in Fort Worth Texas Digitally Transformed with Smart Display Solutions from Australia
From: 4D Systems Pty., Ltd.Description: The original elevator doors and cigar boxes might fool one to think they have travelled back in time. It is anything but: from check-in to accessing your room, the hotel is futuristic and all digital. ...
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Team Solarium Case Study
From: 4D Systems Pty., Ltd.Description: Team Solarium is a group of undergraduate engineering students who design, manufacture and test solar electric vehicles. Since 2016 they have promoted sustainability through the use of renewable ...
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Aluminum Cold Mill
From: AMETEK Surface VisionDescription: Cold rolling is an important part of the manufacturing process for thin aluminum strip and sheet. Effective quality control at this stage, by monitoring dents, scratches and other surface defects, can ...
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Precise Detection of Pallet Pockets Using a 3D Snapshot Camera
From: SICKDescription: Automated guided vehicles (AGVs) from the manufacturer Transolt move about its customers' warehouses as if by magic. There's nothing supernatural at play here, of course, but AGVs do possess a certain ...
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What is LiDAR?
From: SICKDescription: For decades, LiDAR technology has been used as an effective means of detection and ranging in various settings and industries. But what exactly is it and where did it come from? LiDAR is an acronym , ...
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Case Study: CP Industries Chooses Radiant for Windshield Glass Testing for Head-Up Displays
From: Radiant Vision SystemsDescription: With a decades-long legacy delivering end-to-end assembly and test systems to the automotive market, CP Industries is well-positioned to address windshield glass inspection to meet growth in head-up ...
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Smart TFT LCD Used on Variable-Frequency Drive
Description: Smart TFT LCD is very suitable for industry application, like medical, power and transportation. ...
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His Very Own Space Odyssey
From: 4D Systems Pty., Ltd.Description: Based in New York, USA, Carl Darby set out to create a scale model of the EVA Pod from the Movie 2001: A Space Odyssey - a 1968 epic science fiction film produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick. Not ...
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Australian Technology Manufacturer Contributes to Smart Medical Solutions
From: 4D Systems Pty., Ltd.Description: What exactly this 'new normal' is, however, subject to continuous change. With vaccines now becoming available, businesses are gaining hope that they can see some normality return, however supply ...
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iX Energy Case Study
From: 4D Systems Pty., Ltd.Description: iX Energy approached 4D Systems because they needed an enterprise-grade display for their vehicles that could deliver a great first impression and complementary aesthetics, and also integrate with ...
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Smart TFT LCD for Active Power Filter
Description: Human society replies on electricity. And active power filter is a critical part in power grid system. ...
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Weighing in on Silo Level Measurement, How New Technology Helps You Cope
From: BinMaster, Inc.Description: In the past few years, technology has exploded. There has been a rapid transition to the industrial internet of things - or IIoT. Sensors increasingly began to use protocols like Modbus and HART. ...
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Topway LCD Display in United Nations - 5th Anniversary
Description: Five years ago, Topway LCD signage officially entered United Nations' meeting rooms. ...
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Teledyne e2v to Supply Infrared Detector for TRUTHS Climate Change Satellite
Description: Chelmsford, UK, December 2, 2020 - Teledyne e2v, part of the Teledyne Imaging Group, will supply infrared detectors for the UK-led climate change TRUTHS mission. The Traceable Radiometry Underpinning ...
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Leading the Way in Solar Powered Vessels
From: 4D Systems Pty., Ltd.Description: The challenge for the team was to display every piece of relevant information while keeping power usage to a minimum so that the power could be used by the motors to outrun competitors. ...
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Redesign of an Outdoor LCD Display
Description: TFT LCD displays for outdoor use need to have special characteristics to defend harsh environment. ...
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Sunlight Readable LCD Display
Description: Sunlight readable LCD displays are designed to operate in direct sunlight or harsh ambient light conditions. Sunlight readable LCD displays are also known as daylight viewable LCD, outdoor LCD ...
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TFT LCD Display Interface
Description: TFT LCDs are becoming the norm for small-to-medium size displays in a variety of products within industrial, medical, POS and consumer applications. To pick the right interface, you need to understand ...
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Developing Bespoke Products Profitably
From: 4D Systems Pty., Ltd.Description: Based in Nantes, France, Ledixis designs DMX controllers for lighting control on TV and cinema sets for its brand Exalux which targets commercial customers. It is a balancing act to cost effectively ...
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Optimising a World-class Ready-to-drive Vehicle
From: 4D Systems Pty., Ltd.Description: Formula Student is an international design competition for students in which teams from around the world construct a single-seated formula vehicle and produce a ready-to-drive prototype in which they ...
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Sensor Proliferation
From: Critical Link, LLCDescription: Two things that tend to capture my interest in an article are sensors and cars, and Bill Schweber's entertaining post in a recent EE Times featured both. So I was entertained. He started out with the ...
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Weather Forecasting
From: Critical Link, LLCDescription: Over the past month or so, I've been keeping my eye on the news about hurricanes Harvey, Irma, Jose, and Maria. It's hard not to get caught up in all the dramatic scenes, the rescues, and the ...
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LCD Backlight Trends
Description: LCDs create their display with the manipulation of visible ambient light. In the absence of this light, we must add backlighting to make these LCD displays visible. ...
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Using TFT Touch Screen - Best Practices
Description: TFT Touch displays are becoming more prevalent every day, in devices that range from consumer electronics to industrial and medical equipment. To bring out TFT touch screen's best performance, some ...
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TFT LCD Display and ESD
Description: TFT LCD display is external facing component in a product. ESD test on TFT LCD screen is a must before a product can be launched to market. ...
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LCD Burn In and Prevention
Description: TFT LCD image retention we also call it "Burn-in". In CRT displays, this caused the phosphorus to be worn and the patterns to be burnt in to the display. But the term "burn in" is a bit misleading in ...
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LCD Screen EMI Issues and Solutions
Description: Any electronic device generates some amount of electromagnetic radiation. LCD display is the obvious place to show EMI. ...
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Thermal Imaging for Fever Detection
From: Teledyne DALSADescription: As government and business leaders start to talk about "returning to normal," and looking to thermal cameras to help, questions remain about "how," and whether the latest technology can help. ...
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How TFT LCD Works - Explained
Description: When compared to the ordinary LCD, TFT LCD gives very sharp and crisp text/graphic with shorter response time. ...
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Connect Raspberry Pi with LCD Display
Description: Raspberry Pi is a very popular single board machine. Connecting it with a touch screen LCD makes it a lot more useful. ...
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How to Implement LCD Capacitive Touch Screen
Description: We are showing an example of setting up and testing the hardware interface to capacitive touch LCD panel. ...
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Tracking Healthy Bee Hive Populations with the Latest in Machine Vision Technology
From: AdvantechDescription: 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 ...
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CEiiA Rapidly Develops a Ventilator in the Fight Against COVID-19
From: 4D Systems Pty., Ltd.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 ...
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MicroPlasma Ozone - Champaign, Illinois
From: 4D Systems Pty., Ltd.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 ...
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How to Implement LCD Display Touch Function
Description: LCD displays with touch screen are used in more and more applications. Here is a simple example on how touch screen is implemented. ...