Brian Dipert

Elon Musk is, I've concluded, the closest thing to Leonardo Da Vinci or another Renaissance Man that we have in modern times. After initially starting web publishing company Zip2 with his brother, Musk transitioned to even greater success in subsequent (and better known) ventures; c-founder of PayPal and Tesla Motors, founder of SpaceX, chairman of

Intel's aspirations to evolve the means by which we interact with computers beyond the conventional keyboard, mouse and trackpad, specifically extending the "vision" (pun intended) to capabilities such as gestures, gaze tracking and face recognition, are well documented at this point. The company publicly demonstrated its aspirations at the January 2012 Consumer Electronics Show, for

Nokia and partner Microsoft, whose Lumia 1020 I wrote about two days ago, don’t (of course) have exclusive license to innovation within the camera-inclusive smartphone space. Take, for example, Samsung’s Galaxy S4 Zoom, built (as the name implies) on the foundation of the Galaxy S4 precursor that Argus Insights CEO John Feland discussed in a

As a recently published article authored by the Alliance notes, modern smartphones provide abundant imaging-related hardware resources and corresponding operating system and application capabilities that, while they might have been originally intended for still and video photography and videoconferencing purposes, are equally applicable to a variety of embedded vision applications. Perhaps no phone platform exemplifies

Earlier this month, I passed along word of the teardown of the Leap Motion gesture interface peripheral, one of the better-known recent embedded vision examples by virtue of its consumer electronics focus and consequent extensive potential-customer interest and press coverage. This time, with thanks to EDN Magazinefor the heads-up, I'm able to pass along to