BS2 to video camera?

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Does anyone know if it is possible to monitor video camera with BS2?

For example, monitor a camera and sound an alarm if it "senses" an
event (such as appearance of object, disappearance of object, absence
of ambient light etc.)?

Or this is not possible due to high bandwidth needed for video
signals?

I noticed that Parallax's CD has reference to Matco's products, but
never seen any app notes.

Archiver

There are many video cameras of the security type that do what you're
asking, If anything in the bitmap field changes it activates a line out or
a recording device.

David

the At 06:22 PM 8/15/2003 +0000, you wrote:
>Does anyone know if it is possible to monitor video camera with BS2?
>
>For example, monitor a camera and sound an alarm if it "senses" an
>event (such as appearance of object, disappearance of object, absence
>of ambient light etc.)?
>
>Or this is not possible due to high bandwidth needed for video
>signals?
>
>I noticed that Parallax's CD has reference to Matco's products, but
>never seen any app notes.
>
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Archiver

You might want to have a look at this as a low cost video solution for
the BS2:

http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~cmucam/

And here's what they say at this site:

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Overview

CMUcam is a new low-cost, low-power sensor for mobile robots. You can use
CMUcam to do many different kinds of on-board, real-time vision
processing. Because CMUcam uses a serial port, it can be directly
interfaced to other low-power processors such as PIC chips.

At 17 frames per second, CMUcam can do the following:

* track the position and size of a colorful or bright object
* measure the RGB or YUV statistics of an image region
* automatically acquire and track the first object it sees
* physically track using a directly connected servo
* dump a complete image over the serial port
* dump a bitmap showing the shape of the tracked object

Using CMUcam, it is easy to make a robot head that swivels around to
track an object. You can also build a wheeled robot that chases a ball
around, or even chases you around. In the Gallery, you can see pictures
and videos of some of the robots we and others have built with CMUcam.

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David Clarke said:
> There are many video cameras of the security type that do what you're
> asking, If anything in the bitmap field changes it activates a line out
> or
> a recording device.
>
> David
>
> the At 06:22 PM 8/15/2003 +0000, you wrote:
>>Does anyone know if it is possible to monitor video camera with BS2?
>>
>>For example, monitor a camera and sound an alarm if it "senses" an
>>event (such as appearance of object, disappearance of object, absence
>>of ambient light etc.)?
>>
>>Or this is not possible due to high bandwidth needed for video
>>signals?
>>
>>I noticed that Parallax's CD has reference to Matco's products, but
>>never seen any app notes.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>To UNSUBSCRIBE, just send mail to:
>> basicstamps-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com
>>from the same email address that you subscribed. Text in the Subject
>> and
> Body of the message will be ignored.
>>
>>
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>> http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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>
>
> To UNSUBSCRIBE, just send mail to:
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