About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 70. Chapters: AN/AAQ-26, Breast thermography, Canadian National Association of Infrared Imaging Technologists, Chemical imaging, Cold shield, Diffuse Infrared Background Experiment, Digital infrared thermal imaging in health care, Fluorescent microthermography, Focal plane array testing, Forward looking infrared, High definition thermal imaging, Hyperspectral imaging, Infra-red search and track, Infrared and thermal testing, Infrared astronomy, Infrared countermeasure, Infrared detector, Infrared homing, Infrared mammography, Infrared photography, Infrared Physics and Technology, Infrared signature, Infrared telescope, Infrared thermal microscopy, IRCF360, Kinect, Low light level television, Microbolometer, Microsoft PixelSense, Minimum resolvable temperature difference, Modulation transfer function (infrared imaging), Near-infrared window in biological tissue, Negative luminescence, Night vision, Noise-equivalent temperature, N band, Optical window in biological tissue, Ora (film), Pyrometer, Quantum well infrared photodetector, Sensorium Project, Signal transfer function, Snapshot hyperspectral imaging, Specific detectivity, Specim, Spitzer Infrared Nearby Galaxies Survey, Spitzer Space Telescope, SPRITE infrared detector, Staring array, Superconducting camera, Thermal imaging camera, Thermal Weapon Sight, Thermographic camera, Thermography (medical). Excerpt: For Windows: Kinect is a motion sensing input device by Microsoft for the Xbox 360 video game console and Windows PCs. Based around a webcam-style add-on peripheral for the Xbox 360 console, it enables users to control and interact with the Xbox 360 without the need to touch a game controller, through a natural user interface using gestures and spoken commands. The project is aimed at broadening the Xbox 360's audience beyond its typical gamer base. Kinect competes with the Wii Remote Plus and PlayStation Move with PlayStation Eye motion controllers for the Wii and PlayStation 3 home consoles, respectively. A version for Windows was released on February 1, 2012. Kinect was launched in North America on November 4, 2010, in Europe on November 10, 2010, in Australia, New Zealand and Singapore on November 18, 2010, and in Japan on November 20, 2010. Purchase options for the sensor peripheral include a bundle with the game Kinect Adventures and console bundles with either a 4 GB or 250 GB Xbox 360 console and Kinect Adventures. The Kinect claimed the Guinness World Record of being the "fastest selling consumer electronics device" after selling a total of 8 million units in its first 60 days. 24 million units of the Kinect sensor had been shipped as of January 2012. Microsoft released Kinect software development kit for Windows 7 on June 16, 2011. This SDK was meant to allow developers to write Kinecting apps in C++/CLI, C#, or Visual Basic .NET. A slide from Microsoft's E3 Conference showing a diagram of the technologies in KinectKinect builds on software technology developed internally by Rare, a subsidiary of Microsoft Game Studios owned by Microsoft, and on range camera technology by Israeli developer PrimeSense, which developed a system that can interpret specific gestures, making completely hands-free control of electronic devices possible by using an infrared projector and camera and a special microchip to track the movement of objects and individuals in three dime
