Border security and traffic management company, Perceptics LLC, has introduced a Color License Plate Reader (LPR) system that uses the license plate’s color as one of the Optical Character Recognition (OCR) variables to enhance its state or country of origin accuracy level.
Visualization specialist Barco announced today that its new LED-lit rear-projection video walls are now available for sales. The OL series of video walls presents significant quality improvements over the current state of the art in LED projection.
Now Intel plans to sell inexpensive cables with fiber-optic-caliber speed to connect, for instance, a laptop and an external hard drive, or a phone and a desktop computer. At the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) in San Francisco Wednesday, the company announced a new type of optical cable that it hopes will be fast, cheap, and thin enough to make it an attractive replacement for multiple copper wires. 
Optelecom-NKF Inc, provider of the Siqura advanced IP video network system, has been selected as a winner of the ASIS Accolades – Security’s Best competition, which recognizes the security industry’s best and most innovative products, services, and solutions. Founded in 1955, the American Society for Industrial Security (ASIS) has 35,000 members around the world, representing a wide array of services and specialties within the security industry.
The Mobileye Vehicle Detection (VD) algorithms recognizes all motorised vehicles, such as cars, motorcycles and trucks in day and night time conditions as a stand alone vision system and was developed and tested on many tens of thousands of hours of driving from all over the world. It accurately estimates the range to preceding vehicle, comparably to radar based vehicle detection. Vehicle Detection provides the core detection for multiple functions - Forward Collision Warning & pre-crash mitigation, Headway Monitoring & Warning and Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC).
Widescreen is dead; long live Cinema 21:9. The Philips 56PFL9954H is a daring experiment in screen dimensions, designed to maximise the cinematic potential of hi-def discs while rewriting the rules on home entertainment. There's a gunwale-bursting array of features at your disposal, the most obvious of which is that extra-wide screen. It is 21:9 (or 2.39:1, if you prefer), enabling it to display movies in the true-cinema aspect ratio in which most will have been shot, as opposed to the 16:9 compromise that has been the norm on standard widescreen televisions.
Developed not only to guide car drivers to unoccupied parking spaces in a city but also to be used as an integral part of a traffic management control center, the Sitraffic Guide dynamic parking guidance system from Siemens Mobility is unique in that it can be used to implement urban traffic strategies. Promoting better utilization of available parking spaces – thereby helping to reduce the traffic volume and environmental impact – Siemens believes this is what ultimately makes a city more attractive as well.
Jupiter Systems has revealed enhancements to its PixelNet distributed display wall system. The company has added an audio output node, a Quad SD video input node, enhanced SDI capability for the broadcast, a window borders and titles feature, support for multiple walls in a single PixelNet domain, and integration of streaming video sources. PixelNet is Jupiter’s new way to capture, distribute, control, and display digital and analog video sources from small conference rooms to large, traffic control rooms and 911 dispatch centers.
Barco has announced its new series of LED-lit rear-projection displays. The full HD (1920x1080) LED-based videowall system features low-maintenance and saturated colors. The OL video wall series also features the company’s unique Sense6 color calibration and stabilization technology. The LED-based projection series consists of the rear-accessible OL and front-accessible OLF videowalls. During the introduction phase, both are available as 127cm (50in) and 179cm (70in) screen sizes. The OL and OLF videowalls have a wide LED color gamut, which exceeds the EBU standard, and present no signs of color break-up.
RuggedCom Inc. has introduced the RuggedBackbone™ RX5000 a new high port density routing and switching platform, designed to operate in harsh environments. The RuggedBackbone™ RX5000 can withstand high levels of electromagnetic interference, radio frequency interference and a wide temperature range of -40°C to +85°C. This platform is designed to meet the challenging communication networking and environmental demands found in utility, industrial and military network applications. 
Christie announced the new Entero, the world’s first LED-based SXGA+ and WUXGA projection system. Powered by 1-chip DLP system, the Entero has a “zero maintenance” design that comes with no consumable components such as lamps, filters or color wheels to replace. Its LEDs offers more than 50,000 hours of operation. Christie Entero offers 600ANSI lumens brightness and features Christie LiteLOC and Christie ColorLOC for automatic, independent brightness and color management. The Entero series is available in two models, one with SXGA+ 1400×1050 resolution, another with WUXGA 1920×1200 resolution.
One of the most sought-after new features on mobile devices is the touch screen. But that name is a misnomer, according to a group of researchers at Northwestern University, in Evanston, Ill., who point out the obviousthat these displays offer minimal tactile feedback. But suppose touch screens could touch you back: You could “feel,” say, the edges of the buttons on a virtual keypad or the links on a Web page.
