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Table of Figures
About the Author / Future Image
Introduction
Acknowledgements
Glossary of Terms
#: 10BaseT – 8PSK [8 Phase Shift Keying]
A: A2P [Application-to-Person] – AXE
B: BABT [Board of Approval for British Telecommunications] – Byte
C: C++ – CVSD [Continuously Variable Slope Delta]
D: D1 – Dyne
E: E-911 – EZWeb
F: Face Plate – Full Well Capacity
G: GAA [GPRS Application Alliance] – Guide Number
H: H.263 – Hz [Hertz]
I: I/Q modulation – IWMSC [Inter-Working Mobile Switching Center]
J: J2ME [Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition] – JTAPI [Java Telephony API]
K: kbps [kilobits per second] – Kilobit
L: L2F [Layer Two Forwarding protocol] – LZW [Lempel-Ziv-Welch]
M: M2M [Machine-to-Machine] – MVNO [Mobile Virtual
Network Operator]
N: NADC [North American Digital Cellular] – Number Portability
O: O&M [Operations & Maintenance] – OTA [Over-The-Air]
P: P2P [Peer-To-Peer] – Push
Q: QAM [Quadrature Amplitude Modulation] – QWERTY
R: RA [Routing Area] – R-UIM [Removable User Identity Module]
S: SAGE [Security – Group of Experts] – SyncML
[Synchronization Markup Language]
T: T-1 Line – Twister
U: UDP [User Datagram Protocol] – UXGA [Ultra Extended Graphic Array]
V: V CAST – VPN [Virtual Private Network]
W: W3C [The World Wide Web Consortium] – WWAN [Wireless Wide Area Network]
X: X.25 – XVGA [eXtended Video Graphic Array]
Y: Yagi – YUV
Z: ZigBee – Zoom Lens 

TABLE OF FIGURES
Fig. 1 – Aliasing (top); anti-aliasing (bottom)
Fig. 2 – An example of amplitude modulation
Fig. 3 – Konica Minolta’s Anti-Shake technology
Fig. 4 – Standard apertures (f-stops)
Fig. 5 – Designing an avatar
Fig. 6 – Backlighting
Fig. 7 – Barrel Distortion
Fig. 8 – Bayer Color Filter Array Pattern
Fig. 9 – Blooming
Fig. 10 – Bracketing: -2EV, +2EV, 0EV (“normal”)
Fig. 11 – Camera module (OmniVision 3MP)
Fig. 12 – Candybar phone (SEMC K790)
Fig. 13 – CCD
Fig. 14 – CompactFlash Cards
Fig. 15 – Changeable Faceplates (SEMC Z600)
Fig. 16 – Chromatic Aberration
Fig. 17 – Clamshell phone (Audiovox CDM-9900)
Fig. 18 – Sony ClearVid Sensor
Fig. 19 – CMOS Image Sensor
Fig. 20 – Coaxial Cable
Fig. 21 – Coverage Map (SF Bay Area)
Fig. 22 – Cropping
Fig. 23 – Depth of Field (top, f/5, bottom, f/32)
Table 1 – Digital Zoom Factors
Fig. 24 – Electromagnetic Spectrum
Fig. 25 – Frequency Modulation
Fig. 26 – Foveon X3 Sensor
Fig. 27 – Hard Disk Drives for mobiles
Fig. 28 – A high key portrait
Fig. 29 – Histograms (RGB)
Fig. 30 – Head Mounted Display (Icuiti DV920)
Fig. 31 – Reflective twisted nematic liquid crystal display
Fig. 32 – Close-up of a typical LED
Fig. 33 – Types of lenses
Fig. 34 – Philips Fluid Focus Lens
Fig. 35 – Low key photograph
Fig. 36 – Memory Sticks
Fig. 37 – Microlens array on photodiodes
Fig. 38 – microSD card
Fig. 39 – miniSD card
Fig. 40 – MultiMediaCard (MMC)
Fig. 41 – Moiré pattern
Fig. 42 – Notebook computer (Sony Vaio)
Fig. 43 – The physical structure of an RGB OLED cell
Fig. 44 – A “stitched” panorama
Fig. 45 – Parallax shift
Fig. 46 – 4-bit PCM of a sine wave (red)
Fig. 47 – PCMCIA cards (Sprint EV-DO cards)
Fig. 48 – Pincushion Distortion
Fig. 49 – PMT (Photo Multiplier tube)
Fig. 50 – An example of posterization (right)
Fig. 51 – An example of red-eye
Fig. 52 – RS-MMC card (w/adapter, on left)
Fig. 53 – SD (Secure Digital) card
Fig. 54 – Normal - Sharpened - Over-sharpened
Fig. 55 – Slider phone (VK200C)
Fig. 56 – SLR (Nikon D2H)
Fig. 57 – SmartMedia Card
Fig. 58 – Smartphone (Treo 650)
Fig. 59 – Structural difference between conventional CCD (left) and Super CCD (right)
Fig. 60 – Swiveler phone (Kyocera Koi)
Fig. 61 – Twister phone (NTT DoCoMo N506iS)
Fig. 62 – An image showing Vignetting
Fig. 63 – Voice Coil Actuators
Fig. 64 – Wavefront Encoding
Fig. 65 – Webcam (Apple iSight)
Fig. 66 – Subject photographed at various White Balance settings
Fig. 67 – Wearable Information Device
Fig. 68 – xD-Picture Card