You don't need a lot of room to store millions of dollars worth of electronic parts, and high-tech companies have had to become very vigilant. One target was UMAX Technologies, maker of scanners, digital cameras, and other electronics. This grainy, black and white surveillance tape may be the best evidence yet against a gang of armed, high-tech bandits who recently broke into UMAX Technologies in Fremont. There's a lot of good evidence that can be gathered from one of these videos. UMAX is even helping its own cause by providing police with UMAX scanners in its high-tech crime lab.
Investigators manipulate images down to the individual pixel to sharpen the photo or video.
This picture from an unrelated bank robbery shows just how sharp blurry surveillance photos can get, and even how latent, smeared fingerprints can be enhanced. Law enforcement like the folks here at the Fremont Police Department say the technology still has a ways to go, but it's fast becoming just as important a weapon as anything else they use in their crime-fighting arsenal. This is where we throw all the extra information and any odds and ends we think might be interesting for you.