Such initiatives, she says, are aimed at building a positive image in areas where Beijing is economically and politically active.
Northrop Grumman ( NOC - news - people ) makes an unmanned spy plane called Global Hawk, which can map and image huge areas quickly, but it is expensive, and expensive to fly, and can stay aloft for only a day or so.
Other refinements include a MF Assist function that magnifies a portion of the image while framing to simplify fine focus adjustments, as well as a Peaking function that highlights sharply-focused areas of the image on screen.
With SSDR, the HD cameras and automatically increase the brightness of the dark areas of the image without affecting the rest of the image, while SSNR III drastically reduces image noise to provide impressive color in low-light conditions.
Perhaps more interesting than the rankings, though, was the finding that customers of MVNOs (like Virgin) ranked their services higher in account management and cost, while direct services (like T-Mobile) fared better in areas like company image and call quality.
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Login passwords can be replaced by a simpler PIN or even Microsoft's innovative picture login (where you tap on specific areas of an image), but there's no way to tell the OS to only ask for credentials after a certain period of inactivity.
Advanced Shadow Adjustment Technology adjusts dark areas within an image shot under backlit conditions so that a subject's face can be revealed even under strong lighting, and Hand-Held Starlight mode, which helps users at night by capturing multiple images and stitching them together into a single, crisp photo, can now be used with a flash.
Where a single snap may miss out on detail in the lightest and darkest areas, an HDR image of the same scene looks preternaturally well lit (see above).
Even leftish Democrats worry that Miss Reno's liberal image will lose votes, especially in conservative rural areas in the north of the state.
Instead, he advises, Virgin should build on its image of irreverence and value in a few key areas--airlines, cell phones, music, the Internet, maybe even trains--and do more to exploit these brands in many parts of the world.
We are hiring new business development people and leveraging the connections of our existing workforce to move into English: The image explains in an overall view...new market areas.
The LABB algorithm also operates on a frame-by-frame basis by identifying "dark areas" and "bright areas" within a frame, then adding a programmable amount of gain to the dark areas, resulting in a more realistic and viewable image.
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Great even in low light, the camera's 12.1-megapixel High-Sensitivity CMOS image sensor and DIGIC 5 image processor combine and deliver on Canon's HS SYSTEM helping ensure detail is captured even in dark or shadowed areas at a maximum ISO speed of up to 6400.
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