Re: 360 degree video real time... interested?

["z" <rmwbsee@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I normally over-react just for fun.

Did she / you have a patent?

There was a UV Prague project that used a camera with the pixel count
increasing to the center of the ccd.
Can you believe it!


"Dave" <dju@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 29 Apr 2005 11:28:10 -0400, "z"
> <rmwbsee@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>Thanks Dave
>>That got me worried again,
>>What is your def of patent squatting,
>>How am I limited/affected by this method.
>
> Hi Ryan,
>
> I'll try to explain what I mean by patent squatting...in a
> long roundabout way...<g>
>
> I didn't mean to cast a pessimistic shadow over the
> invention. I just wanted to express my views on what the
> performance was that I witnessed. The camera I worked with
> was a self-contained type with the camera unit (small CCD
> type with focus lens) inside the housing.
>
> Unfortunately, the CEO that I worked for didn't really have
> a feel for R&D, nor sales, IMO. I tried to get her to
> consider making something that the company could sell and
> she just wanted to use her camera to capture some funding
> from whoever might want to pay her. I was her only
> programmer and the thing I wanted to make was something that
> could be sold. IMO She wanted to sell vaporware (by asking
> for funding without having a plan for how to return the
> value to the fund  provider). My biggest gripe about that
> was that I knew that software takes quite a while to develop
> unless you've already written something similar
> before....and I wanted to get started working on the
> software since I knew it would take a while. She wanted to
> either get someone at another company to provide funding to
> develop whatever using the camera as the heart of the
> project, or sue someone for patent infringement if the
> opportunity comes up. But she wasn't interested in getting
> started on a serious piece of software that accomplishes
> something for an end user. So I ended up quitting because
> there was a trust issue with her, plus I had trouble
> collecting my pay and other employees had the same problem.
>
> I tried to convince her (not being much of a salesman
> myself) to sell kits that included software and hardware to
> make it easy for an experimenter or manufacturer to make use
> of the camera technology. She had no idea what to make
> except that whatever the software does, it needs to 1:
> support wireless transmission of video, 2: provide a way to
> see a pano instead of the raw polar frames. That was the
> limit of her ideas. A CEO without a vision, except to get
> funded by someone, somehow. So I wrote a demo for her
> (without wireless support) and she showed it to some people
> she brought in. The people were disappointed in the way it
> looked. I was disappointed too because I couldn't figure out
> any way for software to solve the clarity issues. It was a
> limit in the video resolution that really ended up being the
> most frustrating problem. Going to a progressive scan
> expensive type of camera might be one answer.
>
>>
>>My prototype [thread 3] is motion capture [timestamp is slow ftp issue]
>>using non optic surfaces @ x10 resolution , it does improve with cam
>>corder
>>at higher res. giving 3-4 fps w 1.6ghz cpu, ok for me considering intended
>>applications and that it was VB6. I am bsee not bscs. I'll have it
>>optimized
>>later.
>>
>
> I was trying to find a way to improve the conversion speed
> and I came up with a couple of ideas at the time.
>
> 1: Convert part of the polar to rectangular but not the
> entire polar image.
>
> 2: Try to find a way to replace the floating point trig Sine
> and Cosine functions with fixed point. I tried to solve this
> one and failed to improve the perf after writing a fixed
> point tabel-lookup sine and cosine. Problem with that was
> that the time it took to do a table lookup of the answer was
> so long that it ended up taking longer than using the
> floating point in the first place. That's the way R&D goes.
>
> I'd be glad to talk more about it offline if you want. Feel
> free to email me at yah oo at dav ee dot com. (remove the
> blanks and change 'dot' to '.').
>
> Regards,
> Dave
>
>