Development of New Super Resolution Microscopes by NIKON
Nikon Corporation has made an announcement on development of new super resolution microscopes namely N-SIM and N-Storm. The N-SIM was developed based on the licensed technology from University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and the N-STORM was developed based on licensed technology from Harvard University. The two products were designed to address the needs of top-end life science researchers to observe tissues and cells more clearly, where optical microscopes are being used. However conventional optical microscopes are not able to identify multiple objects as single objects such as protein molecules cluster at distances of less than 200nm. Nikon has overcome this issue through its super resolution fluorescence microscopy technology capable of exceeding the resolution limits of conventional optical microscopes allowing users to view microstructures and nanostructures of living cells with molecular-scale resolution. Read more
Launch of Super-Resolution Transcoder by NEC
With spread of high definition television (HDTV) capable of supporting terrestrial digital broadcasting , viewer demand for high resolution programming is growing. However, when SD video gets rebroadcast via a HD television the images tend to blur resulting in a poor picture quality. Up to now, “multiple frame super-resolution ” technologies has been the way to overcome this issue through conversion of multiple image frames to HD, but this method suffers from the high cost plus it requires time in order for a large number of servers to process the image data. Read more
Development of Super resolution ASSP for boosting low-resolution images by NEC
Rapid development of today’s high performance digital audio/visual devices such as digital TV, mobile phones has brought up on the consumer the challenge of viewing low-resolution images on their high-definition electronic products. One example of such deficiency is in viewing the 720 x 480 pixel SD image data on 1920 x 1080 pixel high definition TV resulting in blurred images. The traditional image enhancement technologies in processing low-resolution image data into full HD images requires a large capacity external memory devices as well as high-performance computing engines which would still leave designers of such products with challenges of achieving real-time image processing in order to comes up with vivid moving images. Read more
