Mapa Institute of Technology

School of EECE

Technopreneurship
COE132/B1

Digital Imaging

Name
Bundalian, Patrick John Edbert G.
Program/year
CPE-2
Student No.
2010140216
Homework No.
3
Date Submitted May 16, 2015

Prof. Jojo Sy
Instructor

Score

Digital Imaging
Digital imaging or digital image acquisition is the creation of digital images, such as of a physical
scene or of the interior structure of an object. The term is often assumed to imply or include
the processing, compression, storage, printing, and display of such images.
Digital imaging can be classified by the type of electromagnetic radiation or other waves whose
variable attenuation, as they pass through or reflect off objects, conveys the information that
constitutes the image.
In all classes of digital imaging, the information is converted by image sensors into
digital signals that are processed by a computer and outputted as a visible-light image. For
example, the medium of visible light allows digital photography (including digital videography)
with various kinds of digital cameras (including digital video cameras). X-rays allow digital X-ray
imaging (digital radiography, fluoroscopy, and CT), and gamma rays allow digital gamma ray
imaging (digital scintigraphy, SPECT, and PET). Sound allows ultrasonography (such as medical
ultrasonography) and sonar, and radio waves allow radar. Digital imaging lends itself well to image
analysis by software, as well as to image editing (including image manipulation).
(Retrieved from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_imaging)

Brief History
Before digital imaging, the first photograph ever produced was in 1826 by Frenchman Joseph
Nicphore Nipce. When Joseph was 28, he was discussing with his brother Claude about the
possibility of reproducing images with light. His focus on his new innovations began in 1816. He
was in fact more interested in created an engine for a boat. Joseph and his brother focused on that
for quite some time and Claude successfully promoted his innovation moving and advancing him
to England. Joseph was able to focus on the photograph and finally in 1826, he was able to produce
his first photograph of a view through his window. It took 8 hours of exposure to light to finally
process it. Now, with digital imaging photos do not take that long to process. Brown, B. (2002,
November). The First Photograph. Abbey Newsletter, V26, N3.
Digital imaging was developed in the 1960s and 1970s, largely to avoid the operational weaknesses
of film cameras, for scientific and military missions including the KH-11 program. As digital
technology became cheaper in later decades, it replaced the old film methods for many purposes.
The first digital image was produced in 1920, by the Bartlane cable picture transmission system.
British inventors, Harry G. Bartholomew and Maynard D. McFarlane, developed this method. The
process consisted of a series of negatives on zinc plates that were exposed for varying lengths of
time, thus producing varying densities, The Bartlane cable picture transmission system generated

at both its transmitter and its receiver end a punched data card or tape that was recreated as an
image.
In 1957, Russell A. Kirsch produced a device that generated digital data that could be stored in a
computer; this used a drum scanner and photomultiplier tube.
In the early 1960s, while developing compact, lightweight, portable equipment for the
onboard nondestructive testing of naval aircraft, Frederick G. Weighart and James F. McNulty at
Automation Industries, Inc., then, in El Segundo, California co-invented the first apparatus to
generate a digital image in real-time, which image was a fluoroscopic digital radiograph. Square
wave signals were detected by the pixels of a cathode ray tube to create the image.
These different scanning ideas were the basis of the first designs of digital camera. Early cameras
took a long time to capture an image and were poorly suited for consumer purposes. It wasnt until
the development of the CCD (charge-coupled device) that the digital camera really took off. The
CCD became part of the imaging systems used in telescopes, the first black and white digital
cameras and camcorders in the 1980s. Color was eventually added to the CCD and is a usual
feature of cameras today.
(Retrieved from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_imaging)

Augmented Reality
Augmented reality (AR) is a live direct or indirect view of a physical, real-world environment
whose elements are augmented (or supplemented) by computer-generated sensory input such as
sound, video, graphics or GPS data. It is related to a more general concept called mediated reality,
in which a view of reality is modified (possibly even diminished rather than augmented) by a
computer. As a result, the technology functions by enhancing ones current perception of reality.
By contrast,virtual reality replaces the real world with a simulated one. Augmentation is
conventionally in real-time and in semantic context with environmental elements, such as sports
scores on TV during a match. With the help of advanced AR technology (e.g. adding computer
vision and object recognition) the information about the surrounding real world of the user
becomes interactive and digitally manipulable. Artificial information about the environment and
its objects can be overlaid on the real world.
(Retrieved from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augmented_reality)

Image File Formats

Image file formats are standardized means of organizing and storing digital images. Image files are
composed of digital data in one of these formats that can be rasterized for use on a computer

display or printer. An image file format may store data in uncompressed, compressed,
or vector formats. Once rasterized, an image becomes a grid of pixels, each of which has a number
of bits to designate its color equal to the color depth of the device displaying it.
(Retrieved from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_file_formats)