And on the heritage front, Ford hopes to capitalize on what it says is an actual brand image in China, based in part on TV images of U.S. presidential limousines through the years as well as the Lincoln Continental that former President Richard Nixon brought with him on his historic visit to China in 1972.

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It does not, in other words, need to be the image of an actual object.

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This compares a stored image of the target with the actual target, enabling a very high level of accuracy.

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Here the image of enchanted genius and Chagall's actual achievement begin to slip apart.

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