Equipped with three 8-megapixel wide-angle lenses the camera captures an almost spherical field of view.
Some drones carry megapixel cameras, but they also tend to have a relatively narrow field of view.
It just so happened that while they were doing so, NGC 4845 was in their field of view.
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Also, such lasers can scan a much broader field of view than a laser in a digital microscope.
The Pan-Starrs telescope in Hawaii uses several gigapixel cameras, but it has a relatively narrow field of view.
That's because they're printed in vertical lines, offering a narrow field of view.
Colors are very accurate, and focus remains true across the field of view.
Other sport cameras require mounting devices and record a view that is not in line with user's field of view.
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They must turn their heads in this extraordinary way because of their eyes' narrow field of view and relative immobility.
One problem with those platforms is that they provide a limited field of view and that view is static for attendees.
It can also be programmed to sound an alarm and call a specific number if something enters its field of view.
Zebra came up with a spherical lens that records a much wider field of view from each point of the hologram.
The virtual display can fully replace your real field of view putting you into a totally convincing fully immersive virtual environment.
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The natural, bright viewfinder offers a horizontal field of view of 25-degrees, allowing users to scan the entire scene quickly and easily.
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It uses a pair of radar arrays, each with a 120-degree field of view, from Lockheed's competitor and occasional partner, Northrop Grumman.
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Additional lenses can be attached via the Lenscaster to create a wider field of view or bring telephoto capabilities to the iPad's fixed lens.
In all these instances if Google can liberate my field of view and give me a portable high resolution screen, I will buy Glass.
And because I know some of you are bursting to know, yes, there is a Field of View (FOV) slider in the graphics options.
The Leap Motion controller has a 150-degree field of view, and tracks individual hands and all 10 fingers at up to 290 frames per second.
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Eye tracking is accomplished by two small cameras on the rim of the glasses while a scene camera records the field of view of the user.
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With the Full-area Touch AF, it is possible to set focus on any point in the field of view which yields quick and intuitive focusing operation with free frame composition.
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Hick's mirror has subtle curves, giving the driver a field of view of about 45 degrees, compared with 15 to 17 degrees of view in a flat driver's side mirror.
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Given the same field of view, a typical digital SLR will show a far shallower depth of field, but still 1.6 times larger than that of a full-frame digital camera.
Taking advantage of Continental's sensor fusion technology as part of the ContiGuard safety concept, the vehicle is able to track all objects as they enter into the sensors' field of view.
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Scanning over a wide area, though, is challenging because of the amount of territory that must be reviewed, the limited field of view of the human eye, and the effects of fatigue.
The large mirror, wide field of view and very sensitive infrared detectors of ESO's 4.1-metre Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA) make it by far the best tool for this job.
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The original iteration of Move was an ingenious design: PlayStation Eye locked onto the glowing sphere via calibration and then judged depth owing to the size of the sphere in its 2D field of view.
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