Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/11/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Neat. But can he take pictures... on 11/5/01 4:04 PM, Jim Brick at jim@brick.org wrote: > I apologize to everyone for speaking out about the > semiconductor/sensor/digital photography field. You are all correct. I > don't know very much about it. You certainly know more than I therefore I > will bow out of the discussion. > > I started to write a paper explaining where we are and where we are headed, > but it became obvious that no one is interested in hearing about the > technology and where it is headed (and why) so I shelved it. Just as well > as I have real work to do. > > Maybe another day. > > Just for the record, I write the firmware that goes inside digital imaging > instruments. Cameras, phones, PDA's, mice, etc. My firmware controls the > imaging chip(s) and associated sensor(s). My colleague in the next cubicle > (Dan Simms) writes algorithms that do all of the outside work. > Interpolation, color space conversion, sharpening, attempted noise > cancellation, etc... He makes a silk purse (your final JPEG digital file) > from a sow's ear (the raw pixels streaming in from my stuff.) > > Since we cannot make pixels any smaller, another technology has to come > forth. Hummm... maybe a marriage of two technologies. > > http://www.asf.com/products/pic/ > > > Jim Brick > Senior Scientist > Agilent Technologies > Imaging Electronics Division > Semiconductor Products Group > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html