The film is famous for a camera trick Hitchcock invented to represent Scotty's vertigo - a simultaneous zoom-in and pull-back of the camera that creates a disorientating depth of field.

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Specifically, Samsung wants to know if Apple licensed any of the patents that it was found to have infringed including the bounce-back and pinch-to-zoom patents.

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Dropcam HD includes night vision, digital zoom and two-way talk back so users can respond to what they're watching as it happens.

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Ok, but at 22-mm (0.87-inches) it's a full 0.2-mm thicker than the listed specs for Samsung's new 28mm wide-angle L74 which packs the same 7.2 megapixel CCD and 3.6x zoom but a bigger 3.0-inch touchscreen LCD around back.

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In back, the collapsible zoom lens, xenon flash, and aluminum battery cover mimic a point-and-shoot camera.

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Its newly designed, large-aperture, 4x optical zoom lens (with the maximum aperture of F2.0 at wide-angle end), high-sensitivity, back-illuminated 16 megapixel CMOS image sensor, and sensor-shift Shake Reduction system ensure sharp, high-quality, low-noise images.

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