Additionally, the TV's picture engine employs multi-frame analysis to help create missing resolution, and Sony's Super Bit Mapping technology incorporates 14 bit up-scaling, processing and pixel mapping to smooth gradation and improve the quality of low-tone pictures.
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Apple has made another stealthy, small acquisition, buying Quebec-based mapping technology company Poly9.
His Google geeks also work on improving mapping technology and the ability to recognize image content.
Google's self-driving cars, which use laser sensors and mapping technology, are examples of Level 3 cars, Mr. Friedman said.
Alfie Ingram, chairman of the Scottish Mountain Rescue Committee, said the new mapping technology would aid future rescue bids.
For example, it recently agreed to license Google's (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ) mapping technology.
Using mapping technology to track and highlight trends, I think is brilliant.
It foresaw the advantage of excellent mapping technology to sell location based advertising and other services beyong directions to the user.
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It has been popular outside the U.S., where Google first introduced it, especially in countries where online mapping technology was not widely available.
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For example, it recently agreed to license Google's mapping technology.
Apple acquired several companies to construct its mapping technology, as well as using information from third parties, such as navigation system maker Tom Tom NV, before it was ready to boot Google Maps.
The firm also updated its mapping technology to feature "City Lens" - an augmented reality app that overlays information about nearby restaurants and other points of interest over live footage of the surrounding area captured by the device's camera.
Mapping technology from Nokia (NYSE: NOK) and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) are among the alternatives that Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) CEO Tim Cook recommended that users try while his company attempts to fix its own broken Maps App.
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WifiSLAM has been offering the technology to application developers for indoor mapping and new types of retail and social-networking apps.
In Zambia, women-led technology organisation Asikana Network is currently mapping all similar organisations across Africa with a view to sharing information.
Google has suggested it could sell auto makers the mapping and machine-vision technology it's developing for its self-driving cars, or offer that technology for free as part of a package of other Google products and services.
The technology is now in place to enable indoor mapping and positioning with an accuracy of 1 meter or better!
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Soon mobile technology could play a large role in detecting, mapping and responding to epidemics.
For Apple, one likely lure of the technology is to help it keep up with other mapping products as the company and its rivals strive to one-up each other on features.
"That is a million times more connections than the genome has letters of DNA, " said computational neuroscientist Sebastian Seung at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who is developing ways to automate the mapping of individual synapses.
Orion Genomics hopes to start pulling in revenues next year from its proprietary method of sequencing, mapping and cloning agricultural genes--technology that can be used to improve crop yield, develop pest resistance or help plants survive drought, flooding and cold.
Philip Nuber, director of the Defense Mapping Agency, says that using this virtual technology in flight simulation can help soldiers in peace time as well as war.
For much of this year, the commission's reason for blocking the iPhone was that its built-in mapping capabilities violate a South Korean rule requiring the use of domestic technology for location-based services in cellphones.
Indoor mapping and tracking has long been seen as an important, potentially lucrative frontier for technology companies.
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