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Andrew

Jan 1, 1970
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I'm looking for a pan/tilt controller that has the feature to center
the camera on a mouse click of the video feed.

I'm not sure if they make one, but I know certain PTZ cameras (like the
Sony SNC-RZ30) have this feature, where, on the live video feed, you
click, and the PT moves the camera to center the video on the spot
you've clicked on. You can then zoom and re-center by clicking again.
It makes panning and tilting very convenient.

I haven't been able to find a controller with this feature. Does
anyone know where I might find one? Or where I may start? Or
possibly, what this technology is called? I'm having the most trouble
searching for it because I don't know what it is called, exactly.

Thanks for any help.
 
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Tim Wescott

Jan 1, 1970
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Andrew said:
I'm looking for a pan/tilt controller that has the feature to center
the camera on a mouse click of the video feed.

I'm not sure if they make one, but I know certain PTZ cameras (like the
Sony SNC-RZ30) have this feature, where, on the live video feed, you
click, and the PT moves the camera to center the video on the spot
you've clicked on. You can then zoom and re-center by clicking again.
It makes panning and tilting very convenient.

I haven't been able to find a controller with this feature. Does
anyone know where I might find one? Or where I may start? Or
possibly, what this technology is called? I'm having the most trouble
searching for it because I don't know what it is called, exactly.

Thanks for any help.
A: What a cool notion! I'm going to forward this mail to some
marketing folks I know, so they can tell me "well duh, we've been asking
you engineering folks to build this for years" (that's just how they
react to suggestions).

B: I dunno. Given a camera that reports it's field of view relatively
well, and a platform that can be position servoed, this should be pretty
easy to do in application software. On a PC it should be a piece of
cake for the folks doing the interface application.

C: If you find one, could you please post your result here? Thanks.

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Tim Wescott
Wescott Design Services
http://www.wescottdesign.com

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"Applied Control Theory for Embedded Systems" came out in April.
See details at http://www.wescottdesign.com/actfes/actfes.html
 
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Genome

Jan 1, 1970
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Andrew said:
I'm looking for a pan/tilt controller that has the feature to center
the camera on a mouse click of the video feed.


Thanks for any help.

I'd be inclined to use some IG3085TS-WXc steppers mounted in your assembly
for X-Y control fed via a T104XG USB sub interface controller and an IR43RCS
power micro-stepping interface module.

There is a better than average chance that you could almost get away with a
similar system for the focussing (Z-axis) stuff but you probably will need
to use the extra 32 bit precision from the IG3085TS-WXf and an IR43RCS/C
driver.

It might be nice but it is going to cost more.

You can download the demonstration PC/Embedded control software
(Windows/Linux/BSD) from the manufacturers website and you also get lots of
examples for most of the popular micro-controllers along with communications
stacks.


DNA
 
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Jan Panteltje

Jan 1, 1970
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I'd be inclined to use some IG3085TS-WXc steppers mounted in your assembly
for X-Y control fed via a T104XG USB sub interface controller and an IR43RCS
power micro-stepping interface module.

There is a better than average chance that you could almost get away with a
similar system for the focussing (Z-axis) stuff but you probably will need
to use the extra 32 bit precision from the IG3085TS-WXf and an IR43RCS/C
driver.

It might be nice but it is going to cost more.

You can download the demonstration PC/Embedded control software
(Windows/Linux/BSD) from the manufacturers website and you also get lots of
examples for most of the popular micro-controllers along with communications
stacks.


DNA

What I was wondering is what system does he want:

Click on point, and have the camera move that to the center.
Or
Click on object and have camera center it and follow.

The last case: you click on a car somewhere at the edge of view, and the
camera brings it to centre and follows it.

Do I get the patent now?
LOL
 
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Andrew

Jan 1, 1970
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Jan said:
What I was wondering is what system does he want:

Click on point, and have the camera move that to the center.
Or
Click on object and have camera center it and follow.

The last case: you click on a car somewhere at the edge of view, and the
camera brings it to centre and follows it.

Do I get the patent now?
LOL

Tracking is not necessary. Centering only.

I'm also not trying to design the system, if possible. I certainly
could, but for this application I am searching for COTS systems.
 
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