Thanks for reply! I agree that keeping web-cam always on is not a good idea. Actually it may prevent some real applications, such as Skype to use web-cam. I think about making a shots every minute for example. That partially solves the problem with power. On Apr 4, 2012 3:48 PM, "Dario Freddi" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > Il 04 aprile 2012 03:12, Vadim Dombrowski <[email protected]> ha scritto: > > Hi! > > > > I'm a student of Belarusian State University and I would like to > > participate in GSoC 2012. > > > > The idea for my project is to create an automatic brightness > > adjustment mechanism using web-camera as light sensor. > > Today a lot of laptops have integrated web-camera, but don't have any > > light sensor. So you should manually change brightness every time the > > ambient light changes. > > Using web-camera as light sensor should give enough information to do > > automatic adjustment. > > > > So I am interested whether this is a good idea? And if it is, how can > > I find/contact mentor or team related to brightness in KDE? > > I would be your best contact point for it probably. I admit I am not > really fond of the idea - keeping the webcam on and busy all of the > time to make it act like an (inaccurate) light sensor is quite a waste > of resources to me, and most laptop users would rather live without > auto-adjustment than with 1 hour less of battery. A proposal about > integrating light sensors (and maybe more hw capabilities) would be > instead much more interesting from my POV. > > > > > Best regards, > > Vadim Dombrovski. >
