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  2. Rolling shutter - Wikipedia

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    Rolling shutter describes the process of image capture in which a still picture (in a still camera) or each frame of a video (in a video camera) is captured not by taking a snapshot of the entire scene at a single instant in time but rather by scanning across the scene rapidly, vertically, horizontally or rotationally. Thus, not all parts of ...

  3. Closed-circuit television camera - Wikipedia

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    These cameras do not require a video capture card because they work using a digital signal which can be saved directly to a computer. The signal is compressed 5:1, but DVD quality can be achieved with more compression (MPEG-2 is standard for DVD-video, and has a higher compression ratio than 5:1, with a slightly lower video quality than 5:1 at best, and is adjustable for the amount of space to ...

  4. Swann - Wikipedia

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    Charles Swann, a central character in Marcel Proust's novel sequence In Search of Lost Time (the first volume is Swann's Way) Elizabeth Swann, in the Pirates of the Caribbean films; Luther Swann, Jess Swann and Dez Swann, characters in V Wars; Mike Swann, a character in the British television soap opera EastEnders

  5. Wireless security camera - Wikipedia

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    The cameras can be installed in many remote locations and the video data is transmitted through government-only wireless network. An example of this application is the deployment of hundreds of wireless security cameras by New York City Police Department on lamp posts at many streets throughout the city. [7]

  6. Ingo Swann - Wikipedia

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    In Swann's book To Kiss Earth Goodbye there is a photograph of the objects on the shelf. Swann wrote that he knew most of the objects on a shelf above his head, but he did not know it held four numbers on a side that would not have been visible if a reflecting surface had been angled near the end. [18] [19]

  7. At the Drop of Another Hat - Wikipedia

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    At the Drop of Another Hat is a musical revue by Flanders and Swann, similar in format to its long-running predecessor, At the Drop of a Hat (1956). In the show, they both sang on a nearly bare stage, accompanied by Swann on the piano. The songs were linked by contemporary social commentary, mostly by Flanders.

  8. List of The Colbert Report episodes (2007) - Wikipedia

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    Freem replaces superstantial in the opening sequence. Colbert thanks former Archbishop of Warsaw Stanisław Wielgus for being caught in a Catholic church scandal of a non-sexual nature; scorns Democrats for taking a day off Congress for the college football National Championship game, with quick suggestion of taking a day off for an Ontario Junior League Hockey game; begins new segment "We the ...

  9. At the Drop of a Hat - Wikipedia

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    Flanders and Swann in the show. The show opened on 31 December 1956 at the New Lindsey. No West End shows were opening on that evening, and consequently, as Swann put it, "quite a number of critics turned up on spec." [7] In The Observer, Kenneth Tynan called the show "a witty and educated diversion …