Sentences with phrase «using infrared light»

The sensor array on the top of the phone also works in pitch dark conditions (by using infrared light) and even if your hands aren't spick and span.
On 29 April 2013, ESA's successful Herschel space observatory exhausted its supply of liquid helium coolant, ending more than three years of pioneering observations of the cold Universe, using infrared light.
«Security cameras vulnerable to attacks using infrared light
Therefore, locating RR Lyrae stars right in the extremely crowded heart of the Milky Way was not possible until the public VVV survey was carried out using infrared light.
The system conceived at TU Eindhoven uses infrared light with wavelengths of 1500 nanometers and higher; this light has frequencies that are thousands of times higher, some 200 terahertz, which makes the data capacity of the light rays much larger.
It uses the infrared light of 1480 — 1600 nanometers in wavelength usually encountered in the broadband glass fiber network.
Once the map is created and stored, the iPhone X uses infrared light to help FaceID scan a person's face even in the dark.
Tracking software builds a 3 - D model of the operator's head using infrared lighting, then measures and analyzes changes in head position as well as eye closure rate.
Using a technology called functional Near - InfraRed Spectroscopy (fNIRS), which uses infrared light to track changes in blood oxygen in different parts of the brain to provide a measure of what brain regions are becoming more activated (consuming more oxygen) during certain tasks, the investigation will compare the brain patterns of children with ASD and typical children who have similar imitation scores and eyetracking patterns, to determine whether children with ASD process the same imitation tasks differently from typically developing children, at the level of their brain activity.
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This is more or less why Amazon currently leads the pack because most of the industry still uses infrared lighting (Kobo Glo HD, Nook Glowlight etc).
Some sugar glider owners use infrared lights so they can observe their gliders at night.
Class IV laser therapy uses infrared light energy (wavelengths that include red and near - infrared light), which penetrate deeply into your pet's soft tissues to stimulate circulation and more.
We can also use this infrared light to measure the amount of ash, carbon dioxide, sulphur dioxide and other gases, by working out how strongly they scatter and absorb thermal infrared light.
Anyhow, the important point of such a room is to have it well insulated, and if fairly small, one could use light bulbs, though one probably use infrared light bulbs which mostly in near infrared with a low intensity of visible light - not dissimilar to parts of spectrum of sunlight.
In comparison, the Rift set up uses a «constellation» tracking camera, which uses infrared light to offer 360 - degree positional head tracking in a short, but broad and deep play area.
A separate report suggests that OnePlus 6 will ship with the same facial recognition technology for unlocking that we saw on the Apple iPhone X. Just like iPhone X, the OnePlus 6 will also have the same 3D camera module that uses infrared light to measure depth.
Just like many other wearables, including the Apple Watch and Microsoft Band, the Gear Fit 2 uses infrared light blasters and green LEDs to track the rate of blood flow.

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It uses pulsed light - emitting diodes (LEDs) with multiple infrared (IR) wave lengths, and combines specially - designed full red, green, blue (RGB) cameras to deliver stable detection.
Allows examining food products using light beyond the visible spectrum, into the near - infrared region.
Night vision feature is automatic and uses infrared LEDs to output light invisible to the human eye but can be seen on the monitor.
When filtered sunlight therapy for jaundice was tested (they used special window - tinting film that filters out UV light and infrared light to transmit the blue light used for phototherapy), jaundiced babies were treated for up to five to six hours each day.
The researchers used functional near - infrared spectroscopy, a technology that measures oxygenation in regions of the brain using light, to assess the babies» brain activity.
To make the 3 - D map, Milisavljevic and co-author Rob Fesen of Dartmouth College examined Cas A in near - infrared wavelengths of light using the Mayall 4 - meter telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory, southwest of Tucson, AZ..
The semiconductor gallium arsenide (GaAs) is widely used, for instance in infrared remote controls, the high - frequency components of mobile phones and for converting electrical signals into light for fibre optical transmission, as well as in solar panels for deployment in spacecraft.
Petitto's machine, made by Hitachi, uses weak infrared light from a laser diode, which shines through the skull and then about an inch farther into the brain.
They use a near - infrared laser beam, which can penetrate deep — in this context, deep means a centimeter or two — into the tissue, where a nanoparticle turns the near - infrared light into blue light, and that directs the activity of genetically engineered immune cells.
Sean D. Brittain and Terrence W. Rettig of the University of Notre Dame used the NASA Infrared Telescope to study the star HD141569, which is located 320 light years from Earth.
Just as we use various electromagnetic wavelengths such as visible light, infrared and X-rays to study the cosmos, gravitational waves will act as a brand new eye on the universe, potentially giving us greater insight into objects like black holes and neutron stars.
Optic phonons, or crystal vibrations that can be excited with infrared light, can also be used to confine light to dimensions much smaller than the wavelength of light, while maintaining record - high efficiencies.
The Lynx A uses a standard color camera lens combined with an infrared - light projector, which lays a pattern over whatever it is looking at.
For the first time, a polarising infrared camera — never before used on Earth — has been made small and light enough to detect concealed oil spills
A team of researchers led by Nial Tanvir of the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom has used Hubble to study a recent short - duration burst in near - infrared light.
A new optical imaging system developed at Columbia University uses red and near - infrared light to identify breast cancer patients who will respond to chemotherapy.
«We quickly realized this was a chance to test Barnes» and Kasen's new theory by using Hubble to hunt for a kilonova in near - infrared light,» Tanvir said.
The smart window controls the transmission of visible light and infrared heat into the building, while the new type of solar cell uses near - UV light to power the system.
The team assembled the colorful photo album by using a new set of filters that are sensitive to infrared light and taking images with them with the FourStar camera at Carnegie's 6.5 - meter Baade Telescope at our Las Campanas Observatory in Chile.
A few other groups are investigating network concepts in which infrared light rays are directed using movable mirrors.
The UBC method uses infrared spectroscopy, a technology that can be used to illuminate infrared light onto chocolate samples.
Using data gathered by an infrared camera during a survey of such stars, astronomers have found that the brightness of a brown dwarf — dubbed 2MASS 2139, which lies about 47 light - years from Earth — varied as much as 30 % in less than 8 hours.
The researchers used a combination of transparent gel patches, gold nanorods, and near - infrared (NIR) light to create a unique thermal ablation system for transdermal drug delivery.
Then the nanoparticle is activated using magnetic energy, infrared light, or radio waves.
For this research brain activity is also being recorded using a technique called functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), which uses light to measure changes in blood concentration in the prefrontal cortex, it is a non-invasive and highly portable technique meaning it can be easily interchanged between car and simulator.
The transmitter, placed near the hi - fi or TV, has an infrared light - emitting diode, similar to those used in a TV's remote control handset.
It is primarily used to study infrared rays — slightly longer than visible light — from young stars and distant galaxies.
In 2005, Kashlinsky led a team of astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope to explore the background glow of infrared light in one part of the sky.
Using the Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers compared infrared light from planet and star combined (dark green) with data taken while the planet was in eclipse behind its star (lighter green).
Researchers used NASA's infrared Spitzer Space Telescope, which measures the heat emitted from distant objects, to study a massive extrasolar planet that lies 40 light - years from Earth.
But, by using a dye that gives out near - infrared light, scientists refined the process so they could make the distinction.
At present, numerous applications in the field of spectroscopy are still in the visible or near infrared range and use relatively weak light sources.
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