6Sight

In the Weekly Briefing September 14, 2009

6SIGHT SPOTLIGHT: Top stories

Leica offers full-frame 18-megapixel Rangefinder

DIGITAL CAMERAS

Tiniest camcorder

Tougher surveillance cameras

Night vision for Nikon 

MOBILE AND INTERNET IMAGING

Motorola “Cliqs” pics

COMPONENTS AND ARCHITECTURES

InvenSense offers first compact dual-axis gyroscopes 

INDUSTRY UPDATES

Improved pico

Epson projects at home

Accusoft Pegasus releases ScanFix, ImageGear SDKs 

In the Weekly Briefing September 7, 2009

6SIGHT SPOTLIGHT: Top stories

With new nano, Apple returns to the camera business

“Frankencamera” extends computational photography 

Sony plans 3D TV

DIGITAL CAMERAS

Canon 18-megapixel DSLR captures HD video

Panasonic claims smallest interchangeable lens camera with flash

Samsung zooms 24x 

Olympus lowers DSLR price

You can star in a video

Two more cameras from Casio

MOBILE and INTERNET IMAGING

idthis photo 

Ontela eases uploads from phone to Photobucket

Latest camera phones 

COMPONENTS AND ARCHITECTURES

No news this week.

INDUSTRY UPDATES

U.S. Military enlists Digimarc 

Kodak adds Wi-FI to printer

Epson improves 17-inch printer

Corel combines photo and video 

Micron sells Aptina Imaging 

In the Weekly Briefing August 31, 2009

6SIGHT SPOTLIGHT: Top stories

Sony supes up DSLRs with HDR, 24 megapixels

Faster color printing

DIGITAL CAMERAS

Two more cameras from Casio

MOBILE and INTERNET IMAGING

YouTube increases ads, revenue 

Animoto adds video

More sharing photos socially

Augmented Reality iPhone applications

Nokia: Tablet or phone?

COMPONENTS AND ARCHITECTURES

OmniVision aims 1080p sensor at mobile conferencing

INDUSTRY UPDATES

Portable ViewSonic, 3M projectors 

Global epaper market to exceed $2.5 billion

Sony expands ebook line

Sony Walkman plays video

Sony “crystallizes” photo frame

LCD for better rearview sight

In the Weekly Briefing August 24, 2009

6SIGHT SPOTLIGHT: Top stories

Augmented reality advances

DIGITAL CAMERAS

Canon PowerShot line adds touch screen model

Canon camcorder captures complete day

Microsoft takes LifeCam to 720p 

MOBILE and INTERNET IMAGING

iPhone imaging 

COMPONENTS AND ARCHITECTURES

More flexible displays

INDUSTRY UPDATES

Epson claims preferred prints

Canon prints via voice

Akvis improves Sketch 

In the Weekly Briefing August 17, 2009

6SIGHT SPOTLIGHT: Top stories

Samsung sees social networking, new technologies

MIT Media Lab researcher explores computational photography

DIGITAL CAMERAS

Small, sensitive, super-speed cameras 

MOBILE and INTERNET IMAGING

LicenseStream spans “America”

Online imaging for real estate

Patent issued to Imatronics 

COMPONENTS AND ARCHITECTURES

Glasses with adjustable focal length 

Toshiba touts fastest, biggest SD card

INDUSTRY UPDATES

3D developments

eMagin OLEDs earn record profits

In the Weekly Briefing August 10, 2009

6SIGHT SPOTLIGHT: Top stories

Nikon packs projector into pocket camera 

Sony sensor sees more in the dark

Sony automates party pictures

DIGITAL CAMERAS

3D helmet camera

Three Pentax cameras

MOBILE and INTERNET IMAGING

Google to acquire On2 Technologies

Social web users share photos

Tough camera phone at center of surveillance system

Getty Images lowers cost for mobile images

iPhone-based “fine art”

Phanfare provides Pro package

COMPONENTS AND ARCHITECTURES

Cameras capture bar codes long distance

INDUSTRY UPDATES

Touchable holograms 

Build Rome in a day

Sixty times more pico projectors coming to mobile devices

HD projectors for less than a grand

Brighter pocket projector

Enhanced video forensics 

Photomizer fixes photos automatically

In the Weekly Briefing August 3, 2009

6SIGHT SPOTLIGHT: The week’s top stories

Kodak improves video, still cameras, frames, software…

DIGITAL CAMERAS

Nikon updates entry-level and pro SLRs

Panasonic doubles image stabilization

Ricoh touts light sensitivity

MOBILE and INTERNET IMAGING

Altek phone packs 3x zoom 

COMPONENTS AND ARCHITECTURES

Eye-Fi aims at Apple

Tessera enhances wafer-optics technology

INDUSTRY UPDATES

Smaller, better aerial surveillance

In the Weekly Briefing July 27, 2009

6SIGHT SPOTLIGHT: The week’s top stories

Fujifilm refines multi-resolution capture

Fujifilm details 3D cam

National Geographic custom prints special photo edition via HP

DIGITAL CAMERAS

Olympus pockets four 12MP cams 

Pocket camcorder provides stereo audio 

MOBILE and INTERNET IMAGING

Yahoo! acquires Xoopit.

Facebook eases email photo sharing

Microsoft gets off its soapbox

Adobe and Akamai collaborate on open video player

White Rose optimizes iPhone images

COMPONENTS AND ARCHITECTURES

Canon develops double-duty image stabilizer 

OmniVision thins video sensor 

INDUSTRY UPDATES

Apple Updates Final Cut Studio 

Low-cost HD home theater

In the Weekly Briefing July 20, 2009

6SIGHT SPOTLIGHT: Top stories this week

Invisible flash 

A new paradigm for photography publishing

DIGITAL CAMERAS

Cameras and camcorders from Samsung

Make an SLR see in the dark

MOBILE and INTERNET IMAGING

Sony Ericsson, AT&T claim best camera phone

Images emailed returned as panorama 

Mobile phone markets analyzed

Kodak online Gallery offers upgraded prints

Improving iPhone images

Free guide on mobile advertising

COMPONENTS AND ARCHITECTURES

ArcSoft adds video upscaling support for ATI Stream 

64-bit ImagXpress SDK 

INDUSTRY UPDATES

3Dsee makes modeling easy

Light Crafts adds to Aurora

First sale of Kodak Prosper S10 imprinting system 

In the Weekly Briefing July 13, 2009

6SIGHT SPOTLIGHT: The week’s top stories

Sony smooths shakes, sees sensitively

Adapting to change

DIGITAL CAMERAS

No other news this week.

MOBILE AND INTERNET IMAGING

No news this week.

COMPONENTS AND ARCHITECTURES

OmniVision enables automotive imaging 

INDUSTRY UPDATES

Samsung claims LCD with 5 million:1 contrast 

Multiple simultaneous filter effects

Jobo throws a curve

Canon’s compact color correction 

Topaz smooths JPEGs

In the Weekly Briefing July 6, 2009

6SIGHT SPOTLIGHT: The week’s top stories

1.4 million frames per second 

DIGITAL CAMERAS

Hasselblad claims double sensor size

AgfaPhoto goes swimming

MOBILE AND INTERNET IMAGING

MyPhotoAlbum shares to Facebook

Free online image editor

COMPONENTS AND ARCHITECTURES

Micron, Lexar deliver faster, smaller cards

Sony to acquire Epson LCD assets

Freescale improves LCD image

Nikon partners with Fujitsu on firmware

Epson shrinks projector panels

INDUSTRY UPDATES

12 LCDs in one display

In the Weekly Briefing June 29, 2009

6SIGHT SPOTLIGHT: The week’s top stories

“Unplug and share” – batteries power Kodak frame

MIT Media Lab researcher to keynote 6Sight 

Motivate like a CEO

DIGITAL CAMERAS

Leaf now part of Phase One 

Pentax, DXG operate underwater

MOBILE and INTERNET IMAGING

Google demos computer vision research

AGGREGATE your own content with thisMoment 

COMPONENTS AND ARCHITECTURES

CalTech settles Sony suit

Sharp “Memory LCDs” save power

SanDisk speeds 32GB SD 

ON turns on LED phone flashes

INDUSTRY UPDATES

HP printer connects to Web content

Blurb books PDF

In the Weekly Briefing June 22, 2009

6SIGHT SPOTLIGHT: The week’s top stories

Pure provides program to push personal video 

Layar augments reality

DIGITAL CAMERAS

Olympus pockets interchangeable lens camera 

Simpler surveillance

MOBILE and INTERNET IMAGING

Silverlight searches Photobucket 

RIM shot

Samsung smart screen

Print and post a picture card from iPhone

Logitech simplifies video conferencing

Two ways to telepresence

COMPONENTS AND ARCHITECTURES

OmniVision boosts low-light sensitivity

Excited sensor sees in low light

Flexible camera sensors

INDUSTRY UPDATES

Projectors a’plenty

In the Weekly Briefing June 15, 2009

6SIGHT SPOTLIGHT: The week’s top stories

Rugged Casio camphone

New Apple and Nokia phones

Independent Photo Imagers supporting 6Sight Conference 

Leading a business in tough times 

DIGITAL CAMERAS

Casio moves still and motion images

Fujifilm takes pics with a touch

Smallest DV camcorder; lightest HD

MOBILE and INTERNET IMAGING

Other new camera phones

Eye-Fi serves ’em Raw

Fotonauts launches wikipedia of photos

Shutterfly shares video 

Tracking Creative Commons usage

Mobile MyHeritage 

COMPONENTS AND ARCHITECTURES

Samsung paper plays video

Kopin shrinks display 

INDUSTRY UPDATES

Toshiba deepens blacks

Independent color adjustment

In the Weekly Briefing June 8, 2009

6SIGHT SPOTLIGHT: The week’s top stories

Display doubles as camera

Developing displays demonstrated

DIGITAL CAMERAS

Microsoft game system camera sees its players

MOBILE and INTERNET IMAGING

Google adds 3D to navigate Street View photos

Samsung phone packs 12 megapixels

Google speeds up Picasa Web Albums

Blurb books 12-by-12

COMPONENTS AND ARCHITECTURES

Zoran improves video conversion

INDUSTRY UPDATES

Micron sells majority stake in APTINA

June 8, 2009

In the Weekly Briefing June 1, 2009

6SIGHT SPOTLIGHT: The week’s top stories

Nikon meets Matrix at MTV

JVC aims LCD at SLRs

Sharp LCD reproduces real color

The Blurb on photo books

DIGITAL CAMERAS

Canon DSLR update improves video control

MOBILE and INTERNET IMAGING

Tweet your webcam

Sony satiates

HD capture on a phone

COMPONENTS AND ARCHITECTURES

Inkjet method makes OLED

Abrisa heats optics

INDUSTRY UPDATES 

Photo books booming at LifePics 

Anthropics automatically enhanced skin 

Control via gestures

Emulating the brain in black and white 

Zune in HD

Simpler geo-tagging from ATP

Tessera completes acquisition of Dblur 

In the Weekly Briefing May 26, 2009

6SIGHT SPOTLIGHT: The week’s top stories

Online photo rating system 

New HP publishing model: print on demand 

Surveillance technology grows

DIGITAL CAMERAS

Pentax captures HDR in-camera

Sensitive, sending security cameras

Microsoft promotes video calling

Panasonic lightens HD 

MOBILE and INTERNET IMAGING

YouTube: 20 hours of video uploaded every minute

Web video rises -- but so does television

Free or legal stock photos

8- to 10-megapixel phones

COMPONENTS AND ARCHITECTURES

Wireless camera on a chip

Micron buys Displaytech

INDUSTRY UPDATES 

Big (really big) and small (very small) projectors, displays, and 3D 

New printers and scanners automate image corrections

3D signs also read faces 

In the Weekly Briefing May 18, 2009

6SIGHT SPOTLIGHT: The week’s top stories

Three new Sony SLRs

Samsung shrinks shutter

Better video improvement

MOBILE and INTERNET IMAGING

Samsung phone uses E Ink display

INDUSTRY UPDATES 

Thin, low-cost photo frames

U.S. photo book market to grow to more than $500 million

Sanyo projector streams video 

In the Weekly Briefing May 11, 2009

6SIGHT SPOTLIGHT: The week’s top stories

Microsoft Integrates Photosynth into Virtual Earth

DIGITAL CAMERAS

Garmin outdoor navigators add cameras

MOBILE and INTERNET IMAGING

Faster, more editable video slide shows

COMPONENTS AND ARCHITECTURES

Eye-Fi uploads videos to five online video sharing sites

INDUSTRY UPDATES 

Amazon enlarges display

Roxio Touches Windows 7 with PhotoShow 

Xerox prints cheaper color with solid ink 

Ceiva files against Frame Media

In the Weekly Briefing May 4, 2009

6SIGHT SPOTLIGHT: The week’s top stories

Low-cost portable HD camcorders

Breakthrough imaging research

• Fastest camera ever

• Simultaneous zoom and wide angle

• Seeing “Star Trek”

• Bright color, low power displays

• Mapping 35 million Flickr photos 

DIGITAL CAMERAS

Camera sales rise slightly

Samsung stresses ergonomics

Phase One captures two ways

INDUSTRY UPDATES 

Google patents book scanning 

NASA-grade image stitching coming to phones

Epson projects HD

Improved photo retouching

ArcSoft upscales video

In the Weekly Briefing April 27, 2009

6SIGHT SPOTLIGHT: The week’s top stories

LG makes camera phone smarter

Microsoft demos DeepZoomPix

DIGITAL CAMERAS

Panasonic developing 3D pro camcorder

3D camera and frame system 

MOBILE and INTERNET IMAGING

Google Labs selects Similar Images 

Picnik and ImageShack Twitter

Kodak: free shipping and downloads

Photosynth player now cross-platform

COMPONENTS AND ARCHITECTURES

No news this week.

INDUSTRY UPDATES 

Light Crafts offers affordable Aurora 

In the Weekly Briefing April 20, 2009

6SIGHT SPOTLIGHT: The week's top stories

Nikon SLR captures video, pivots LCD

Photos embedded with shopping links

DIGITAL CAMERAS

Camera sales to drop

New GigaPan robot fits SLRs

Panasonic camera lacks IS

Measuring SLR shake

Point-Of-View wearable camera market growing

MOBILE and INTERNET IMAGING

Google maps webcams views 

Animoto upgrades photographer video service

Easing online image sales

Avid frees video editing

PhotoBucket tweets

INDUSTRY UPDATES 

Watching the watchers

Kopin sees for security

In the Weekly Briefing April 13, 2009

6SIGHT SPOTLIGHT: 

The week's top stories Nintendo eyes cameras

DIGITAL CAMERAS 

HD less than $100 from DXG 

Asia Optical, Flextronics to jointly make cameras 

Camera production down in Japan

MOBILE and INTERNET IMAGING 

I3A delivers phase 2 CPIQ 

Corbis moves more video

COMPONENTS AND ARCHITECTURES 

Sensor market up 

Sanyo sees in less light 

Microsoft acquiring 3DV

INDUSTRY UPDATES 

Sarnoff resolves video quality

In the Weekly Briefing April 6, 2009

6SIGHT SPOTLIGHT: The week’s top stories

Nokia point & finds

DIGITAL CAMERAS

Sony touches maps

Canon captures color at night

Olympus to launch SLR on QVC

MOBILE and INTERNET IMAGING

Facebook upgrades photo storage

ImageSpan teams with PicScout 

Camera phone penetration rising

Phanfare prints from iPhone 

Pre-designed picture sites 

Gimmick-free graphics

COMPONENTS AND ARCHITECTURES

Maxim’s Mobicam3 monitors multiple camera streams

Toshiba to go it alone on OLEDs and LCDs

OmniVision captures in low light

INDUSTRY UPDATES 

TI hypes next-gen 3D DLP

In the Weekly Briefing March 30, 2009

6SIGHT SPOTLIGHT: The week's top stories

Canon adds HD to Rebel

YouTube shares video with Twitter

DIGITAL CAMERAS

Camera adds game graphics to reality

Phase One Invests in Mamiya

Garden camera captures time-lapse video

Headset cam for cops

MOBILE and INTERNET IMAGING

Microsoft adds to online NASA imagery

Finding faces on Facebook

Mapping Flickr photos reveals shooting patterns

Kodak changes Gallery storage policy

Pelago, Eye-Fi add images to online stories

COMPONENTS AND ARCHITECTURES

Smith Micro patent shrinking JPEGs

INDUSTRY UPDATES

Looking at displays 8 hours a day

ACD optimizes images for frames

View photos on HDTV

March 30, 2009

In the Weekly Briefing March 23, 2009

6SIGHT SPOTLIGHT: The week's top stories 

Cisco flips

DIGITAL CAMERAS 

Mamiya's many megapixels

MOBILE and INTERNET IMAGING 

Younger users share more images via web, not email 

Embarrassment bars picture sharing 

I3A launches Camera Photo Image Quality Initiative Phase 3 

Photobucket gets dangerous 

See through any Windows webcam from phones 

Microsoft Silverlight beta boosts video 

GeoEye satellite images now on Google Earth

COMPONENTS AND ARCHITECTURES 

Aptina aims at netbooks 

OmniVision edges illumination

INDUSTRY UPDATES 

Photo books for photo sharers, travelers 

Image viewer remaps color

In the Weekly Briefing March 14, 2009

6SIGHT SPOTLIGHT: 

The Week’s Top Stories 

Sixth Sense overlays information 

KIS-Kiosk kicks out photo book in less than 10 minutes

DIGITAL CAMERAS 

Camera in prosthetic eye 

Sigma signifies sensor size

MOBILE and INTERNET IMAGING 

Photobucket shares simultaneously

Tiny gets Flickr on its Radar

Photosynth for iPhone

COMPONENTS AND ARCHITECTURES 

Fastest CF card yet from Pretec

INDUSTRY UPDATES

Photo to 3-D object 

PMA produces picture forecast 

Scan prints to digital files