He invented the stock ticker, the phonograph, the motion picture camera.
Where Taylor used a stopwatch, the Gilbreths used a motion-picture camera.
By the early 2000s, digital camera picture quality was getting very good, broadband Internet was coming on strong, and inexpensive photo quality printer meant there was now a high quality end-to-end system for digital photography.
Headquartered in San Diego, Mitek Systems (NASDAQ: MITK) is a mobile imaging software solutions provider that allows users to remotely deposit checks, pay their bills, get insurance quotes, and transfer credit card balances by snapping a picture with their camera-equipped smartphones and tablets instead of using the device keyboard.
In this case, a picture (of the camera body) tells far more than a thousand words -- this radical build is a bit tricky to explain, but we'll do our best.
Polaroid, for those too young to have heard of it, is a camera system that produces a picture in a few minutes out the back of the camera, no darkroom required.
With the family smiling at the camera in the picture framed on the wall.
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Have you taken a picture with your cell phone camera lately?
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Using their personal mobile device camera, a picture of the shoppers hand will act as the landscape for the ring or bracelet of interest.
This feature allows customers to set up bill payments by snapping a picture of their bills with their camera-enabled smartphone or tablet.
However, says Martin Cook of the Digital TV Group, a highly complicated picture, such as when a camera pans, at distance and high speed, across the faces of a football crowd, could be more troublesome.
"When I saw it, I pulled out the camera and immediately took that picture, " Green said.
"At one point I tried to take a picture of a young boy attacking a camera, " Sussman wrote.
The new model is also the first Cyber-shot camera to offer a "Picture Effect" mode, which expands a shooter's artistic possibilities without the need for editing software.
It doesn't give much away, but the inference is that phone manufacturers have been focusing on increasing the number of megapixels in camera phones, rather than picture quality.
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There are 40 people standing around looking at me, all trying to make this camera work so they can take picture of me stumbling through a yard.
It asks you for permission each time it uses the camera if you want to retake your picture.
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The Web camera automatically pans across the loch taking a picture every second and zooming in at certain points.
After taking the picture of the sign, it will appear on the camera's display with the translation, having looked it up on the internet through a wireless connection.
Or, from a security perspective, you could have an IP surveillance camera set up so that it sends a picture to your Twitter account whenever there is unusual activity.
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Another agency puts semi-celebrities on a boat in the south of France and then photographs from a distant camera with a long lens to give the picture the right feel.
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The secret, you see, lies in the iPhones magical camera which can "take" a "picture" of the check, transmit it to USAA, and boom -- your cash is instantly deposited.
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The tabs along the top make it very easy to view your friends timeline, mentions, direct messages and even popular topics, and including a picture in your tweet is as simple as selecting the camera icon (you can also view tweeted pictures in the app).
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Once tweaked, however, and transfers from camera to desktop took just over a minute per picture.
The camera gives creative photographers unique capabilities like refocusing a picture after it's taken and creating living pictures that amaze friends and family when shared online.
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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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As we approach the hospice, children from the orphanage cling to my clothes, begging in Creole for me to take their picture so they can see themselves on the display of my digital camera.
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