Hi, we are just testing a standard webcam to be used as a digital magnifier for visually impaired users. Such gadget could be very useful, as many low vision users need such device, but those commercially available are Windows only and mostly very expensive. We tested common Genius webcam with manual focus feature using Cheese, however, there are no features needed for this kind of users (supplied by my visually impaired sister): - inverse color mode - color profiles (eg. yellow text on blue background - simple runs in BW mode only and replaces black with yellow and white with blue) - guiding lines (can provide some screenshots) - and some others
WxCam, which looked very promising, is not possible to install on my sisters laptop (Sysinfo output attached) running Vinux 2.0. Are there any plans for such features? Maybe, they could be just added to Cheese or WxCam. In my opinion, this could help a lot of users as the price of the webcams is much lower and no additional payment for commercial software would be needed. regards Helios
System information report, generated by Sysinfo: 1.1.2011 22:45:35 http://sourceforge.net/projects/gsysinfo SYSTEM INFORMATION Running Ubuntu Linux, the Ubuntu 10.04 (lucid) release. GNOME: 2.30.2 (Ubuntu 2010-06-25) Kernel version: 2.6.32-27-generic (#49-Ubuntu SMP Wed Dec 1 23:52:12 UTC 2010) GCC: 4.4.3 (i486-linux-gnu) Xorg: unknown (10 November 2010 11:25:26AM) (10 November 2010 11:25:26AM) Hostname: HP550 Uptime: 0 days 11 h 29 min CPU INFORMATION GenuineIntel, Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 550 @ 2.00GHz Number of CPUs: 1 CPU clock currently at 1994.940 MHz with 1024 KB cache Numbering: family(6) model(22) stepping(1) Bogomips: 3989.88 Flags: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss tm pbe nx lm constant_tsc up arch_perfmon pebs bts aperfmperf pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm lahf_lm MEMORY INFORMATION Total memory: 994 MB Total swap: 2544 MB STORAGE INFORMATION SCSI device - scsi0 Vendor: TSSTcorp Model: CDDVDW TS-L632N SCSI device - scsi2 Vendor: ATA Model: WDC WD1600BEVT-6 HARDWARE INFORMATION MOTHERBOARD Host bridge Intel Corporation Mobile GME965/GLE960 Memory Controller Hub (rev 0c) Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 3618 PCI bridge(s) Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03) Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 03) Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 5 (rev 03) Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev f3) (prog-if 01) USB controller(s) Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 03) Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 03) (prog-if 20) Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03) Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03) Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03) Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 03) (prog-if 20) ISA bridge Intel Corporation 82801HEM (ICH8M) LPC Interface Controller (rev 03) Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 3618 IDE interface Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) IDE Controller (rev 03) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP]) Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 3618 GRAPHIC CARD VGA controller Intel Corporation Mobile GME965/GLE960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0c) Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 3618 SOUND CARD Multimedia controller Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03) Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 3618 NETWORK Network controller Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g (rev 01) Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 137d Ethernet controller Intel Corporation 82562GT 10/100 Network Connection (rev 03) Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 30d8
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