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• Researching the Brain with Dragonfly Cameras Using Gamma Ray Technology
• Camera Selector Tool and Website Enhancements
• Ladybug App for iPad Debuts at SIGGRAPH 2010
• Best Paper Award at ISS 2010 in Yokohama, Japan
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• New Articles and Application Notes

20 Dragonfly Express cameras stream images to Firewire 1394b framegrabbers at up to 800 Mbps or 200 FPS

Researching the Brain with Dragonfly Cameras Using Gamma Ray Technology

The University of Arizona is using 20 Dragonfly Express cameras in a single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) imager designed for studying neurological pathologies – including Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease – in rodent brains. Each Dragonfly Express camera streams images for Firewire 1394b frame grabbers at up to 800 Mbps, or 200 fps, at full resolution. Read more...

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Easily find the right Point Grey camera by using the new Camera Selector Tool

Camera Selector Tool and Website Enhancements

Point Grey has launched a Camera Selector Tool, designed to make sourcing the right Point Grey camera model quick and easy by entering key specifications. Visitors can narrow their camera choices based on resolution, frame rate, interface and sensor attributes. Check out our new Camera Selector Tool.

We have also improved navigation on our website and added more product and technical support content, including Product Change Notifications (PCNs) and archives of previous Tech Insights Newsletters.

Camera Selector Tool

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Pan, tilt, and zoom with the Ladybug Spherical Viewer app on the iPad

Ladybug App for iPad Debuts at SIGGRAPH 2010

Point Grey exhibited at SIGGRAPH in Los Angeles this week, the world's premier trade show and conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques. We were pleased to see growing interest in our spherical, stereo and imaging cameras. Along with a live Ladybug3 demonstration, Point Grey was featuring the new Ladybug Spherical Viewer on iPads, a free download available on the App Store on iTunes. The images and HD videos cover nearly 90% of the spherical field of view, and are ideal for use with multi-touch and accelerometer-based displays for pan, tilt, and zoom, such as the iPad and iPhone.

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Circular fish-eye image captured by Grasshopper camera

Best Paper Award at ISS 2010 in Yokohama, Japan

Masao Shimizu, Associate Professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, received the Best Paper Award at this year's ISS 2010 in Yokohama, Japan. Titled "Single-Camera Multi-Baseline Stereo Using Fish-Eye Lens and Mirrors," the paper features a Grasshopper 2 MP mono CCD camera to capture circular fish-eye images.

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Taipei International Industrial Automation Exhibition

Point Grey will be attending Taipei International Industrial Automation Exhibition 2010 with Apo Star, our Taiwan Distributor in Taipei, Taiwan from August 4 - 7, 2010.

11th European Conference on Computer Vision

Point Grey will be exhibiting at ECCV, the 11th European Conference on Computer Vision, in Crete, Greece from September 5 - 10, 2010.

SEMICON Taiwan

Point Grey will be attending SEMICON Taiwan with Apo Star, our Taiwan Distributor in Taipei, Taiwan from September 8 - 10, 2010