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DALSA Corp. announced it has received contracts totaling $3.9 million from two suppliers of flat-panel display inspection equipment. The orders are expected to be delivered in 2004. DALSA’s CCD cameras are used in vision systems that inspect flat-panel televisions, notebook PCs and liquid crystal display monitors as they are manufactured. . . . Optical Gaging Products Inc. (OGP) has released a new catalog for its SmartScope Quest line of high-accuracy measurement systems. For more information, visit: www.ogpnet.com; e-mail: sales@ogpnet.com . . . NEC Corp. announced it has made an agreement to transfer to Pioneer Corp. all the shares NEC holds in its subsidiary, NEC Plasma Display Corp., and the intellectual property rights NEC holds in relation to plasma displays. Details of the transfer have not been announced, but NEC said the move is in line with its "promotion of policies to find external capital for new growth in the industry."