This Design Idea utilizes an optical computer mouse's sensor for measuring rotation of a disk which can be mechanically connected to any sort of rotating apparatus. One feature is to allow adjustment ...

Hand-marked cards for applications like voting machines and meter readers often have dark marks, light marks, erasures, or dirt. Digital systems can't distinguish between an intended mark, dirt, or ...

Titan Enterprises reports on how optical flow sensor technology has solved a high-tech problem - monitoring the flow of coolant to the world's most sensitive astronomical camera. The world’s largest ...

Robust and precise dead reckoning software offers cost-reduced alternative to expensive camera or LIDAR based systems for indoor robot navigation by fusing sensor data from optical sensors, IMU ...

Toshiba has introduced a pair of linear CCD image sensors for automated optical inspection and barcode scanning. Both are monochrome and have a 5.25μm (pitch) x 50μm pixels stacked edge-on to form an ...

KYOTO, Japan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Kyocera Corporation (NYSE:KYO)(TOKYO:6971) announced that it has developed one of the smallest known optical blood-flow sensors, which measures the volume of blood flow ...

NxtPhase T&D Corporation has announced the NXCT-F3 flexible optical current sensor. The latest addition to the NxtPhase range of optical CTs, the NXCT-F3’s flexible, fiber optic head wraps around high ...

The problem is efficiency. Maxwell's equations are completely linear, so nonlinear optics relies entirely on materials with nonlinear response to optical fields. Unfortunately these responses deviate ...