<p>Thanks for reply!</p>
<p>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.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Apr 4, 2012 3:48 PM, "Dario Freddi" <<a href="mailto:drf54321@gmail.com" target="_blank">drf54321@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Hi,<br>
<br>
Il 04 aprile 2012 03:12, Vadim Dombrowski <<a href="mailto:pftbest@gmail.com" target="_blank">pftbest@gmail.com</a>> ha scritto:<br>
> Hi!<br>
><br>
> I'm a student of Belarusian State University and I would like to<br>
> participate in GSoC 2012.<br>
><br>
> The idea for my project is to create an automatic brightness<br>
> adjustment mechanism using web-camera as light sensor.<br>
> Today a lot of laptops have integrated web-camera, but don't have any<br>
> light sensor. So you should manually change brightness every time the<br>
> ambient light changes.<br>
> Using web-camera as light sensor should give enough information to do<br>
> automatic adjustment.<br>
><br>
> So I am interested whether this is a good idea? And if it is, how can<br>
> I find/contact mentor or team related to brightness in KDE?<br>
<br>
I would be your best contact point for it probably. I admit I am not<br>
really fond of the idea - keeping the webcam on and busy all of the<br>
time to make it act like an (inaccurate) light sensor is quite a waste<br>
of resources to me, and most laptop users would rather live without<br>
auto-adjustment than with 1 hour less of battery. A proposal about<br>
integrating light sensors (and maybe more hw capabilities) would be<br>
instead much more interesting from my POV.<br>
<br>
><br>
> Best regards,<br>
> Vadim Dombrovski.<br>
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