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There is a lot happening this week at CES. The awards are already rolling in and the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) had its 2012 Design and Engineering Awards Honorees displayed Sunday night at a CES press event. One of the honorees, in the Software & Mobile Apps category, was Picitup for its computer vision (CV) based driving safety app, iOnRoad . We know these folks pretty well and we were psyched when they downloaded the FastCV™ SDK, quickly incorporated it into iOnRoad and significantly upped the performance.
Would you believe that meeting data demand can be as easy as child’s play? No? Check out this video (after reading my blog of course)!
A few weeks ago, we proudly announced the world’s first color e-reader to feature mirasol® display technology – the KYOBO eReader. We believe this announcement is the first step in changing consumer’s expectations about what an e-reader is; delivering color and interactive content, while maintaining the outdoor visibility and weeks of battery life to which they’ve become accustomed.
In August 2011, the Seventh Circuit court vacated the EOBR 395.16 rulemaking based on a determination that the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) had not adequately addressed the potential for driver harassment with the new guidelines. FMCSA later indicated that it would redo the EOBR rulemaking and not appeal the judge’s decision. Since FMCSA’s proposed EOBR mandate rulemaking depended on the 395.16 rule for technical guidelines, it appears that the mandate will also be delayed. So what is next, and when?
IEEE, the world’s largest professional association for the advancement of technology, has more than 400,000 members from all over the globe who collaborate on technology projects in aerospace, communications, robots and more. We’re proud to announce today that our very own Mike Luby, Qualcomm’s vice president of technology, has been awarded the 2012 IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal for his work in coding theory.
In a previous post, I provided three reasons why developers should adopt WebGL and discussed the importance of enabling the next generation of use cases for “HTML5-related” 3D graphics within mobile web browsers. The complexity and richness of content on the web continues to increase, and there is a renewed focus from web site and web app developers to utilize the latest functionality--from enabling applications that work in off-line mode, to visually adding complex two and three dimensional graphical elements to enrich their sites.
During my recent talk about small cells and their evolution toward higher coverage, capacity and reach, a listener asked me, “Isn’t that what today’s picocells offer?” The answer is, “Exactly!” As we move toward femto networks, femtos will be used as traditional picocells, combining the plug and play benefit of femto architecture with larger coverage and capacity of picocells. Our recent announcement of femto chipsets supporting up to 32 users is a major step in that direction.
As you may recall, the Qualcomm Wireless Health team launched the first Qualcomm Wireless Fitness Challenge (QWFC) a few months ago. At the conclusion of the QWFC I, I mentioned that we planned to roll this mHealth program out to more Qualcomm employees, and eventually the San Diego community. I am happy to share with you all that today we are launching QWFC II with some exciting updates—one of which is our participant roster now includes Qualcomm’s Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Paul Jacobs, our Chief Technology Officer, Matt Grob and many other members of the executive team.
We just marked another important milestone for mirasol display technology. Less than twenty four hours ago and many miles away from most of you, the world’s first e-reader to feature mirasol display technology – the Kyobo eReader – was unveiled in Seoul, South Korea.
Over the past week, I attended the U.S.-hosted Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Leaders’ Summit in Honolulu, Hawaii. President Obama and the leaders from the other 20 APEC member economies advanced a number of ambitious and visionary initiatives to promote growth, competitiveness, innovation and prosperity across the Asia-Pacific region.
We love the smarts that come with developers adding computer vision-enabled functionality into their cutting edge applications, but we needed the processing to happen faster. That camera on your mobile phone pulls in a lot of data, so we asked ourselves how we could retain the smarts while still processing the information efficiently so that users get great experiences without bogging down the device. That’s what led Qualcomm to launch FastCV, the first mobile-optimized computer vision (CV) library for ARM-based devices. Qualcomm is making it available to the industry so that CV applications can run efficiently on a wide array of mobile devices, even mass market handsets.
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