What's more, the algorithms can be tweaked separately by hardware manufacturers for any desired result, and can incorporate data from ambient light sensors to increase projector efficiency.
From resistors and LED modules to light sensors, each block represents a real component that can be attached to each other via magnetic connectors, hopefully creating a circuit in the process.
California-based Nest Labs, founded by two former Apple executives, produces a thermostat capable of learning user behaviour and working out when a building is occupied or not, using temperature, humidity, activity and light sensors.
It also uses an accelerometer and light sensors to snap an image when a person enters a new environment, and an infrared sensor to take one when it detects the body heat of a person in front of the wearer.
But successive projects show you how to make my Rover by adding touch, light and ultrasound sensors that let the robot respond to its environment--plus a grabber that can pick things up.
Smart sensing technology automatically detects your work conditions to determine the proper display brightness with ambient light and human sensors, while a comprehensive input panel, including HDMI, DisplayPort, DVI-D, VGA and 4-port USB hub, connects users to the latest peripherals and future-proofs the investment.
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About 93 percent of 3, 040 large U.S. hospitals used one or more day lighting or lighting conservation features, including tinted window glass (80 percent), reflective window glass (39 percent), external overhangs or awnings (47 percent), skylights or atriums designed to provide light (57 percent), automatic controls or sensors that increase or reduce lighting in response to the level of natural light (14 percent), and occupancy sensors that reduce lighting when rooms are unoccupied (46 percent).
The new technology, called an epidermal electronic system (EES), is based on a new class of micro-electronics that integrates miniature sensors, light-emitting diodes, tiny transmitters and refined wire-filament receivers.
This, Dr Levoy explains, is mainly down to the processing power of devices, such as camera-equipped smartphones, growing faster than the capacity of sensors which record light data.
Mindstorms comes with motors to let the robots skittle about, and sensors (touch and light) to let them interact with their environment.
By entering the control panel, you'll find a night mode that offers a super-dim clock and alarm display for bedside duty, though we wish this mode could be triggered automatically by light sensor (very early Classics had sensors, but for whatever reason, they were later removed).
Made from a flexible polymer film suffused with fluorescent particles, the prototypes catch only a specific wavelength of light and shoot it to an array of sensors that surround the sheet's edge.
Sensors that understand everything from temperature, light and moisture to motion, pressure and stress, need to be connected.
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You can put the sensors next to the LED chips inside light bulbs.
Apple has embedded a fiber-optic lighting system to illuminate the keyboard and bolstered it with sensors that can tell when the ambient light in the room begins to dim.
Whereas the original prototype had a thin, flimsy shell, the Virta 2's gone downright rugged, ditching the iPhone chrome for a more durable gunmetal frame, and there's a full compliment of sensors (compass, accelerometer, ambient light and proximity) alongside quad-band radios, WiFi, Bluetooth and a pair of cameras for your video chat testing needs.
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That's all thanks to a collection of six sensors, which keep tabs on metrics like temperature, ambient light, humidity and motion -- whether it's fingers about to touch the display or people passing in and out of the room.
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As a device Natal is a thin bar about 12 inches across, with sensors that measure a room's depth, the available light and the size and motion of up to two gamers standing in front of the machine and multiple players taking turns.
And because sensors beneath the fibers can sense when any given blade's light is obscured, referees can track the footsteps of a player to determine if he was in-bounds or not.
It comes loaded with five sensors which intelligently determine when to take a photos based on changes in light, motion, direction, colour and temperature.
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They had glorious digital SLR cameras with interchangeable lenses, sleek pocket cameras with large sensors and manual controls, and features like high-ISO for low-light shooting, megazoom, and rugged bodies for the outdoors.
Although it did not yet work with visible wavelengths of light, Mr Hunt said it could lead to a range of cheap, small, portable sensors that could find a role in many different fields.
Sensors automatically turn off lights after five minutes if they detect no movement and adjust the light level according to the available daylight.
The 35mm full-frame sensor inside the RX1 camera more than doubles the area of APS-C sensors commonly found in much bulkier DSLR cameras, allowing it to take in significantly more light while capturing content.
The DT 18-55mm F3.5-5.6 SAM II is a light, compact 3x zoom that's an ideal partner for A-mount cameras with APS-C sensors.
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The miniaturization of pixel size impacts performance of light sensitivity and signal to noise ratio (SNR) in today's 1.12 micrometer pixel image sensors.
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Inside, the device is home to all the usual radios and sensors, including Bluetooth 3.0, a gyroscope, e-compass, aGPS, an ambient light sensor and a G-sensor, with either 16GB or 32GB of internal storage.
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