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FOCUS Enhancements Completes Videonics Buy
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FOCUS Enhancements Completes Videonics Buy
February 2001
Veteran digital video hardware and software maker Videonics, Inc. (Campbell, CA) was acquired by FOCUS Enhancements, the maker of advanced video conversion ASICS for computing and television, on January 16 in a stock-or-stock transaction. Focus targets: merging of graphics and video for Web, presentations, conferencing, and gaming. Videonics stock ceased selling on NASDAQ.
Edge-3D Imaging LLC, a real-time bio-imaging firm built on key patents microscopy imaging pioneer Gary Greenberg developed
at Edge Scientific, introduced itself to the public at the Cell
Biology and Neuoscience expos.
Save time in December 2001 for the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference—a gathering of image analysts and machine vision algorithm developers at Kauai, Hawaii. (Where else? Well, it was the Canary Islands last time!) Attendees will work on next-generation vision algorithm performance issues. Intel andPoint Grey will sponsor a stereo vision workshop. See: http://vision.cse.psu.edu/cvpr2001/.
Intelligent Optical Systems (OIS, of Torrance, CA) will manufacture high-speed single--chip VLSI image capture and color preprocessing for Meicer Semiconductor of Taipei, Taiwan. The target is mass market color imaging/calibration products for mainland China and Asia markets.
And Luna Imaging, the Net-based image asset management firm, along with Lee & Lee Communications, licensees of art and other images form major museums of China, have formed a strategic relationship to bring Mandarin language capabilioty to their Insight software.
