Apple in recent months has moved to procure significant quantities of LED camera flash components that could help the iPhone maker's next-generation mobile handsets produce superior image and video ...

Micrel's new generation of high brightness Flash LED drivers address the growing market of tablets and mobile phones by reducing solution size for LED flash applications with a 40 percent reduction in ...

Catalyst Semiconductor's latest LED driver, the CAT3612 is a fully programmable, 300-mA camera flash driver. The device combines the company's flexible 1-Wire EZDim programming with a matched pair of ...

Micrel, Inc. has announced the availability of two new high current camera flash LED driver products. The MIC2870 and MIC2871 are capable of driving one or two camera flash LEDs up to 1.5A with ...

In part 1, we explored the need for a high intensity flash in medium to low light conditions to ensure good pictures from 2-megapixel (and greater) camera phones. The battery presents the system ...

Apple is preparing a radical hardware upgrade capable of dramatically improving camera quality in a range of products, including the iPhone. The upgrade, revealed in a newly-granted patent, comes in ...

The iPhone is packed with various features designed to make life easier, and one such tool is the LED Flash for Alerts. It uses the camera flash for notifications, and here's how to turn it on. Apple ...

Notifications for phone calls, texts, and alerts may be critical, but sometimes all that buzzing, pinging, and vibrating can be a pain. Conversely, you may be in such a noisy environment that you miss ...

Machine-vision systems use very short flashes of intense light to produce high-speed images employed in a wide variety of data-processing applications. For instance, fast-moving conveyor belts are run ...