Agilent's orange LED replaces IR emitters in digital still cameras for auto-focusing in low-light conditions at distances up to 3m. Agilent Technologies has introduced a high-brightness AlInGaP-based ...

Cell Phones are Becoming the ultimate consumer all-in-one portable appliance, producing digital-still camera-quality pictures, supplying WiFi/Web access and delivering high-quality audio. As customers ...

Almost every micro-based project that I have designed in the past 25 years has had a flashing LED, originally as a “health” indicator, but the feature has expanded to use as a status indicator where ...

In part 1, we explored the need for a high intensity flash in medium to low light conditions to ensure good pictures from 2-megapixel (and greater) camera phones. The battery presents the system ...

Machine-vision systems use very short flashes of intense light to produce high-speed images employed in a wide variety of data-processing applications. For instance, fast-moving conveyor belts are run ...

In the cellular handset market, the inclusion of high pixel count imagers integrated into the handset is almost standard. As the resolution of these imagers increases, the need for brighter flash ...