Image-processing software would be able to convert those hand motions into something the computer would understand.
So far, most have been costly paper-weights or glorified typewriters, running Japanese word-processing software.
The supplied image processing software, "SIGMA Photo Pro", converts RAW data quickly and easily.
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The general look and feel needs to convey professionalism and a mastery of word-processing software.
EnterpriseDB offers an awful lot of information processing software for a fraction of the price that Oracle charges.
Google's word processing software isn't going to satisfy users working on complex documents, rich with footnotes or mathematical notations.
By contrast, the Duke imaging system used a thin strip of metamaterial mated with some electronics and processing software.
With further modifications to the system's image-processing software, the team said it believed the same technology could be used to measure an object's speed and direction.
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Never mind if nobody uses most of these new features (this article is being typed into word-processing software from 1997, for instance, but it seems to work perfectly well).
They could run only simple spreadsheets and word-processing software.
The cylindrical speaker features two high-performance drivers, a built-in bass port and digital signal processing software to extend frequency response on the high end while providing tighter low ends for deeper bass response.
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The graphics processing unit (GPU) "has become a much more important processor in a system than it was just a few years ago, when everything was 2-D in nature, " says Sam Blackman, chief executive of Elemental Technologies, a company that builds video-processing software that runs on Nvidia's gear.
And while Google Docs online spreadsheet and word processing software is stripped down (when compared with Office), it does make it easier for workers to share a single online document and collaborate on it with colleagues--something that gets complicated fast when multiple copies of a Microsoft Word document are blasting around the office.
Hocking told us that this particular unit also does additional software processing to reduce ghosting.
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Movea is a leading provider of motion processing chips, software, firmware, and IP for the Consumer Electronics industry.
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Infosys Technologies ( INFY - news - people ) (35, INFY) delivers data processing services like software development, systems integration, product engineering and testing.
And Zoho is already pushing into more sophisticated applications, offering customer-management and project-planning software alongside basics such as word processing, spreadsheet and presentation software.
Both games taught me some interesting lessons in non-software assisted processing of information.
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Another way to determine attitudes is natural language processing methods, where software algorithms use different sets of rules to decipher statements and try to glean their intended meaning.
Not long ago, as Google began branching beyond its core SaaS offering, Gmail, and into blogging, image processing, and office software, its overall SaaS package looked inconsistent, preventing customers from feeling as if they were in one easy-to-use environment for the length of their experience.
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To be sure, Indian data processing firms still depend for 75% to 85% of their revenue on cheap labor applied to software testing and order processing, but they're adding strategic and innovation consulting services rapidly.
Each core individually supports single cycle ARM NEON 128- bit vectors for software based media processing applications.
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The Internet tilts the tables in favor of digital processing power, bandwidth and software products that scale.
Early customers such as Chevron and Exxon Mobil built their own software for seismic processing.
Every year, we expect to see a few glitches in tax filings, including software bugs and processing issues.
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But Microsoft had identified others, including Sun Microsystems's Java technologies, Intel's Native Signal Processing, and multimedia playback software developed by Apple and RealNetworks.
Hazard evaluation can be fast and safe by using remote methods such as digital photogrammetry, using software for image processing of scanned aerial photographs.
RLX's software balances the processing load among hundreds of blades and instantly shifts data and workload from a failing blade to a reserve unit.
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