On 04/04/12 20:00, Vadim Dombrowski wrote:
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]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hi,
Il 04 aprile 2012 03:12, Vadim Dombrowski <[email protected]
<mailto:[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.
Yes, as a user, I find this to be a good idea.
