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On 04/04/12 20:00, Vadim Dombrowski wrote:
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<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 moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:drf54321@gmail.com"
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Hi,<br>
<br>
Il 04 aprile 2012 03:12, Vadim Dombrowski <<a
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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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Yes, as a user, I find this to be a good idea.<br>
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