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Cheap and capable digital web-cameras and microscopes. These make possible surveillance of experiments and their display on computer monitors. Simple and intuitive analogue instruments, such as bulb thermometers and bourdon-tube pressure gauges, may also be monitored web cameras. 

Classroom demonstrations of absorption and emission spectra with a Web camera and fiber-optic spectro-... 

There are situations when the customer needs technical support and his/her pjersonal assistant must contact the technical support sp>ecialist s virtual assistant. The technical support specialist is able to offer remote assistance, so, the innovative products/ services the virtual enterprise provides with are created based on that approach the customer s desktop can be shared, a web camera can be easily integrated in the system, if necessary, or a small but useful control panel can be activated in order to allow the technical support spiecialist to remotely fix the problem on the customer s end. 

Industry and Business. CCDs are used in fax machines, scanners, and even many small copiers. The ubiquity of these devices changes business communications. Web cameras attached to computers make videos easy to produce and have led to an explosion of individual amateur video clips being posted online in such places as YouTube. 

The trivial observation that computer monitors can be programmed to display millions of different colours has led to the development of an experimental technique based on the simultaneous use of a standard computer screen as a controlled light source, and a digital camera, such as a web camera, as an imaging detector for the evaluation of diverse optical properties of chemically sensitive substances. The first demonstration of this concept was published back in 2003 [28], and the technique was nicknamed as Computer Screen Photo-assisted Technique (CSPT). 

In CSPT spectral fingerprinting experiments, part of the computer screen is used as a light source displaying a sequence of colours that illuminate a target substance, while the web camera captures the image of the substance under these particular illuminations. 

This paper proposes a computer vision based driver drowsiness system, use of OpenCV in image processing, interfacing of web camera to OpenCV, Haar classifiers like feature based face detection methods, eyelid identification, and developing alertness system using eyelid status to warn the driver accordingly by providing an alarm. 

The remainder of this paper is organized as follows. Section II describes the different techniques for detecting drowsy driver and significance of the problem. In Section III describes proposed system structure, system flowchart and introduction to OpenCV. In Section IV describes the interfacing of web camera to OpenCV. Section V Haar classifiers like feature based face detection techniques. In Section VI describes the results and finally we make conclusion in Section VII. 

But a photographic developer can be made without sulfite by substituting ascorbic acid, using Phenidone or metol, ascorbic acid, an alkali, and water. I learned of this quite by accident in 1993 when I ran out of sodium sulfite.The nearest supplier was a 100 mile round trip Knowing that ascorbic acid is an anti-oxidant and having some in my medicine closet I decided to chance it. My escapades that day were described in Darkroom and Creative Camera Techniques, Nov/Dec 1994 (reprinted on Ed Buffaloes s web site, www.unblinkingeye.com/articles, under Film and Film Developers Vitamin C Developers). 

The use of line scan cameras for a real-time color pattern inspection grew out of pattern recognition systems in the textile industry, where a single camera with ample lighting can image about 1-m-wide webs. In that application, the complete system was controlled by a 32-b Versa Module Europa (VME) bus microcomputer that also recorded an encoder input for web position. 

The chapter coordinators met over a three-year period to evaluate and revise various drafts of the document. Once the RO found the unedited final draft acceptable, it was sent to over 100 contact points throughout the world for review and comment. The unedited draft was also made available on the IPCS web site for external review and comment for a period of two months. These comments were peer-reviewed by the RO and chapter coordinators, and additions and revisions to the draft document were made if necessary. A file of all comments received and revisions made on the draft is available from the RO. When the RO was satisfied as to the scientific correctness and completeness of the document, it was forwarded to an IPCS editor for language editing, reference checking, and preparation of camera-ready copy. After approval by the Director, IPCS, the manuscript was submitted to the WHO Office of Publications for printing. It will also be available on the IPCS web site. 

This was a little puzzling and disappointing to me. What in the hell was everybody talking about when they said that photo shops had all the goods So I go home and start a few internet searches. All I found were camera and film exchanges. 1 had pretty much given up on this subject until some nice person posted this URL on a favorite web page of mine ... 

They can also be sent electronically. A digital photo could be taken at the time the voucher is distributed and sent to the provider by e-mail or posted to a secure Web site. For additional certainty, providers could be asked to make a digital image of the patient which could be compared with the original. The obvious limitation of this method is the need for digital cameras and universal Internet access by providers. For some target groups, such as commercial sex workers or men who have sex with men, this method may be unacceptable. 

Sometimes, however, truth is stranger than fiction. A Greek physician had a visit from a patient who developed a strange sensation in her ear while on a motorcycle ride. The physician was shocked to see, inside her ear, a spider s web with a spider ensconced in it, apparently comfortable in its warm surroundings. Recognizing that this was an epic moment, he ran for his video camera and managed to record the arachnid s hasty departure from its new home. 

The availability of smartphones that can run apps, read barcodes using the phones camera, and pull information from the web means that data regarding the suppply chains choices may well impact a consumers purchase decision and thus demand. Goodguide is such a company, whose website contains an index summarizing information regarding over 100,000 products (in July 2012) ([45]). A consumer with a smartphone can install an app, direct the camera to the barcode of a product, and immediately receive a product rating that also provides details regarding all supply chain choices made by the company. 

After this was first implemented, John actually placed two video cameras in key positions on the factory floor. Then the customer really could see the manufacturing process at the Web site. This was done to help customer relations, but also because there were two places in the process where proprietary operations were done and John did not want to give tours of the actual factory floor. Nor did he want to reveal his technology by obtaining patents for the specialized operations (pre-sales information, sales transaction, mid-sale/order tracking information). 

The client block diagram in the Figure 2 illustrates the dient-side functionalities. The client block controls the microphone and web/video camera connected to the client machine, captures the multimedia data and sends data packages over a stream to the server-side component. In the same maimer, the video sequences captured from the multimedia peripherals such as multimedia equipanents, using the TV timer, can be broadcasted within the shared sp>ace component. 

A charge-coupled device (CCD) is the imaging system at the heart of every digital camera, Web cam, and cell phone camera. CCDs are also found in scanners, fax machines, and many other places where digital images are needed. 

In 2008, about 100 million digital cameras were sold, 100 billion photographic images were made, and more than 1 trillion digital images were posted on the World Wide Web. 

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