And they can develop safer, more environmentally friendly and more efficient extraction and processing technologies.
Britain, meanwhile, has started taxing landfills so heavily that local officials, desperate to find an alternative, are investing in all manner of unproven waste-processing technologies.
Through this initiative, NHK is offering state-of-the-art digital visual and sound processing technologies to contribute to the documenting and safeguarding of tangible and intangible cultural heritage, and of national heritage.
Palmer said rumors abound of Yahoo and Google releasing more real-time processing technologies for working in real-time with big data, and Streambase plans some specific product announcements in a month or so.
For four decades after World War II, the federal government made enormous investments in research universities, national laboratories, communications and micro-processing technologies, and the necessary infrastructure to support the development and commercialization of information technologies that have transformed the American workplace, created entire new industries, and made the American economy the most productive in the world.
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One portfolio will include about 700 patents covering image capture, processing and transmission technologies for digital cameras and other devices.
Incremental quantitative advances in bandwidth, video frames per second, cloud based storage and processing and other technologies have reached a tipping point, with qualitatively new opportunities for learning now emerging.
While cyclical IT budgeting factors are likely at work, we also believe that the BI market has matured after a post-recession and post-consolidation growth phase and that enterprise attention has turned to new data processing and analytics technologies.
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The Digital Capture Portfolio includes over 700 patents, covering key aspects of image capture, processing, and transmission technologies that are crucial to the design and operation of digital cameras and multi-function devices, including camera-enabled smartphones and tablets.
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Food Genius plans to set itself apart by using big data mining technologies and machine processing to spot trends faster than any of these companies currently can.
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So despite higher incomes and more spending power, few of them are equipped to help Cosan develop better technologies at its ethanol processing plants.
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The long term objective of this project is to develop and apply innovative information and communication technologies for image and signal processing in order to better safeguard, diffuse and promote oral and intangible forms of cultural expressions proclaimed by UNESCO as masterpieces of the heritage of humanity.
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.
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.
Medical technologies that help prolong life, such as the imaging processing used in CAT scanners and MRI machines, trace their origins to technology engineered for the use in space.
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The handset offers new support for two technologies: Active Noise Reduction technology, which performs noise processing in a manner that best suits the image, and Sharpness Equalizer technology, which produces a clear picture by adjusting the contours of the photo.
Storing, processing and analyzing even the tiniest fraction of that data will require drastically different technologies from the structured, relational data management tools organizations have so far relied on.
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Whether shooting stills or Full HD video, advanced features and Nikon technologies like the newly developed high resolution CMOS sensor and EXPEED 3 image processing engine are designed to meet the needs of the most demanding creative vision.
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Sandbridge Technologies' SB3010 chips are flexible enough to handle a wide range of protocols, multimedia and application processing, which would enable handset makers to built multifunction handsets using a single chip, driving costs down.
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