DIGITAL digest

"We Speak Image" was the theme of the two-day event that occupied more than 150,000 square feet of exhibition space at the Jacob K. Javits Center. Industry observer Noel Ward wrote about the company's broader imaging offerings in an on-site report he did for his "Real World Digital" blog.

The most dramatic of its future technologies was the Canon Mixed Reality system, which uses a head-mounted display with built-in cameras and a computer that processes video to blend the real and virtual worlds in real-time. The company also claims to have developed the world's largest (202x205mm) CMOS image sensor that is capable of capturing images in approximately 1/100th the amount of light required by its current digital SLR cameras.