GSoC: automatic brightness adjustment

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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" <drf54321 at gmail.com 
> <mailto:drf54321 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>
>     Il 04 aprile 2012 03:12, Vadim Dombrowski <pftbest at gmail.com
>     <mailto:pftbest at gmail.com>> 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.
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