It uses a vehicle-mounted camera, object-recognition software and satellite positioning to create detailed 3-D maps of roads, pinpointing features such as pot-holes.
By implanting a device on the retina that receives a signal from the eyeglass-mounted camera, those cells can be stimulated as if receiving light, causing them to transmit an image to the brain.
Now you run the risk of a Google car driving by with a roof-mounted camera, it snapping your photo, the photo being uploaded as a Street View on Google Maps, a blogger noticing it, uploading it to their website, where it then goes viral, so the whole world can look at their computer screens and laugh.
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The first hi-res shots from the head-mounted navigation camera.
The diagram listed in the FCC also seems to confirm recent picture leaks that show a device with a center mounted rear camera that looks more like the hot-selling Note II and less like most larger tablets.
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If it senses that you've fixed your gaze on a specific location for more than a few seconds, a nose-bridge mounted HD camera will take a 50 x 50 pixel snapshot and compare it to its image database -- much like Google Goggles.
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The Sideline camera angle provides field-level views of the action from a camera mounted on a cart.
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Deits mounted his Pacifica camera on top of a city sewage pump house near a creekbed outfall on a trial basis.
The company's test vehicle, a BMW 7 Series, uses a camera mounted behind the windscreen, similar to those used in cars with lane-departure warning systems.
Similarly, Google Glass fails to acknowledge that walking around with a camera mounted on the side of your face at all times makes you look dorky.
Soon after the remote camera mounted on Ballard's undersea robot, Argo, spotted the vessel's massive boiler on the ocean floor, Ballard was calling ABC, NBC and CBS from his ship's radio.
The only native app being shown off was Skype, and there was a camera mounted on top of the demo TV, though we didn't get to actually check out video calling in action.
To start with, they had to rely on a high-resolution camera mounted on a frame, and a series of filters attached to a rotating wheel, to create a set of single-frequency images from the same perspective, in order that they could be merged as desired.
In Britain recently, villagers staged a revolt and blocked the camera-mounted Google automobile from entering their town.
The camera is mounted in Huntsville, Alabama, at the Marshall Space Flight Center.
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Aerial shots of the elephant herd, for example, were shot using a gyro-stabilized Cineflex aerial camera system mounted to the bottom of a helicopter.
When using these devices, the camera can be triggered remotely, making it ideal for group shots, remote applications, or to reduce shake when the camera is mounted on a tripod.
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Alternatively, an ultra-small camera can be mounted above usual computer locations, such as an office desk or table.
To do it, Microsoft developed its own highly efficient camera, and mounted it in several planes that were also loaded with 13 PCs for image processing.
Contour's built-in Bluetooth technology enables users to line up and preview shots before recording or press record from their phone while the camera is already mounted.
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Like a motion-controlled video gaming system, the Virtual Music Instrument employs a camera that is mounted on a computer screen and aimed at someone, capturing their gestures.
If needed, staff in a control centre can see and hear everything the field engineer is seeing and hearing via the camera and microphone mounted on the robot arm.
When mounted on a PENTAX Q-mount digital camera body, it covers focal lengths from 83mm medium telephoto to 249mm telephoto (equivalent 35mm format) ideal for portraits, sports events and landscape photography.
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Among the other specs the Excite 13 touts are a quad-core Nvidia Tegra 3 processor, 1GB of RAM, a 5-megapixel rear facing camera, and four rear-mounted speakers to blast audio from the tablet's aluminum back.
Ram's heavy duty 2500 and 3500 models come with a rear-facing camera built into the center-mounted brake light behind the cab that can beam images of a trailer or the cargo in the bed into the truck's dashboard screen.
The camera works in conjunction with laser beams mounted in the headlamp unit.
"Of course, the camera was set to manual and I mounted a wide angle lens that allowed me to include the whole church in the frame, " he says.
Two-dimensional tracking would be managed via the existing Move's visual spectrum camera, or by using a display-mounted IR emitter in conjunction with a remote mounted sensor (again, just like the Wii controller).
The only other noticeable breaks from the flush metal housing are a curious division surrounding the side-mounted dedicated hardware keys (power, volume rocker and camera button) and a flimsy flap on the opposite edge that hides ports for micro-HDMI and micro-USB.
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Placed neatly in the upper middle portion of its posterior, is the 8-megapixel rear camera (ringed with a gentle hint of blue) with side-mounted single LED flash.
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