Is the processing time for 640x480 the reason you're only using 90x30?<br><br>You can actually dramatically increase the precision to which you can read back the bright point's location by fitting a paraboloid to the intensity values in the neighborhood of the brightest pixel, then reading off the location of the extremum of the paraboloid. You will get at least one order of magnitude more accuracy that way than looking at the integer coords of the brightest pixel (perhaps as much as two orders of magnitude).
<br><br>Luke<br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/4/07, <b class="gmail_sendername"><a href="mailto:linaccess@yokoy.de">linaccess@yokoy.de</a></b> <<a href="mailto:linaccess@yokoy.de">linaccess@yokoy.de</a>> wrote:
</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hello Mary Lou,<br><br>On Tue, 04 Sep 2007 12:13:34 -0400<br>Mary Lou Jepsen <<a href="mailto:mljatolpc@gmail.com">
mljatolpc@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br>> lenses are cheap. it depends on what exactly you are doing with the<br>> software.<br><br>tracking a little shiny point at the head and transform it into mousepointer movements. Here is the description:
<br><a href="http://www.olpcaustria.org/mediawiki/index.php/Headtracker">http://www.olpcaustria.org/mediawiki/index.php/Headtracker</a><br><br>With the XO camera we typicaly use only 90x30 pixel from the 640x480 pixel. So I want to magnify the operative area with a lens.
<br>Here is a picture of the area:<br><a href="http://www.olpcaustria.org/mediawiki/index.php/Headtracker#magnification_lens">http://www.olpcaustria.org/mediawiki/index.php/Headtracker#magnification_lens</a><br><br><br><br>
> American Science and Surplus is a good way to experiment:<br>> <a href="http://sciplus.com/category.cfm?subsection=21">http://sciplus.com/category.cfm?subsection=21</a><br>><br><br>thank you for that link. A plastic lens is what I am searching for.
<br><br><br>> then to china for mass production at very low price point.<br>><br>><br>> - Mary Lou<br>><br>><br><br>regards,<br><br>yokoy<br>--<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Devel mailing list
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