 | Smart Mini-Cameras Subjects: Engineering & Technology; Electrical & Electronic Engineering; Instrumentation Measurement & Testing; Electrical Engineering Communications; Achieve the Best Camera Design: Up-to-Date Information on MCMsMiniature camera modules (MCMs), such as webcams, have rapidly become ubiquitous in our day-to-day devices, from mobile phones to interactive TV systems. MCMs-or "smart" cameras-can zoom, adjust their frame rate automatically with illumination change, focus at different distances, compen Tigran V. Galstian is a professor in the Department of Physics, Engineering Physics and Optics at the Universite Laval in Quebec, Canada. He is president of the Canadian section of the International Optics Commission, associate editor of the European Journal of Physics: Applied Physics , and member of the Ordre des Ingenieurs du Quebec and the Societe Francaise d'Optique. He received an MSc and a PhD in quantum electronics from the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute. His main research interests are new optoelectronic materials and their applications in the areas of optical information and biomedical optics, including behavioral biophysical systems. |
