Design challenge

An easier approach would be to hook an HDMI output.

Yes, if you can capture single frames and don't have to track motion.

He'll be off the air soon enough (well, maybe not SOON enough...)

A more practical/marketable product would be a SoC with USB & serial ports and some form of network connectivity (WiFi if you are willing to live with that) that acts as a bridge/gateway between a late model APC UPS and your own local network.

If you can sell this for something similar to the price of their legacy network management cards, you'd likely have a viable product. Of reasonably low complexity.

Such a device would probably generate too many false alarms from Trump impersonations. Changing the channel, when your device detects something politically offensive, is a bad idea because the impersonations and comedy might be worth viewing:

Instead, I suggest a PPC (personal political censor), that would use one or more AI programs to analyze the content, and mute anything it finds contrary to your political beliefs? With such a PPC, the AI would tag media content and rate it on a 0 to 9 scale. You set the device threshold to a number representing your level of agreement, acceptance and tolerance. If unacceptable, the device switches the channel to something less offensive.

"What Happened When Five AI Models Fact-Checked Trump"

I had a good start on such a device in about 1977. I built a lie detector that measured the speakers voice stress:

Unfortunately, a lie detector (as described) isn't going to work. In

Having an AOC version would at least double sales.

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Impersonations (voice) are amusingly BAD when analyzed objectively. The spectrogram's are visibly different.

Impersonators rely on caricatures of the person being impersonated; speaking patterns, known mispronunciations ("nucular"), vocabulary excesses, etc. Likewise, visual cues to further emphasize the caricature.

And, as trump is such a caricature of a *person*, these are easy to exploit, even when the impersonation (in an objective sense) is really poor.

Isn't that how trump operates? Ignore anything that he doesn't like (i.e., anything that casts him in an unfavorable light?).

Comics are particularly threatening as they often speak the truth in ways that people ENJOY hearing. If you've a fragile ego...

I can't wait for the AI's to be fact-checking debates in real time, their results scrolling across the "lower third" WHILE the speakers are speaking! (Or, advising the moderators in real time so they can challenge the speakers' claims!!)

When you take a polygraph, you are shown the questions you will be asked prior to the administration of the test. I suspect this is intended to increase apprehension/stress to amplify physiological responses.

Probably not. AOC is better looking than Trump and has more sensible things to say - which isn't high praise.

It is not too hard, been doing video tracking in asm with simple PIC microcontrollers.

basically in that simple example to track the exhaust of some rocket engine

In the trump case and color you only need to look for an orange size blob the camera man will usually put it mid screen, so check for eyes nose and mouth in the blob, and ears perhaps. Just a few lines of codes in asm, BASIC will be too slow :-)

Yea, but not all TVs do have that

Interesting thing is also the voice recognition Long ago I did some interesting experiments, but basically you could perhaps do a FFT and look at the amplitude ratio of the harmonics.. Compare it with some reference speech from trump. And look for words trump uses a lot, there are plenty speech to text programs In those days I was trying to read the brain and make a picture of what the person was saying / hearing thinking. Brain reading! I can do it so why not a computer?

LOL From that link: Is Trump the most dishonest president in U.S. history? Perplexity: Based on available fact-checking data and expert analysis, Donald Trump is considered the most dishonest president in U.S. history in terms of the number and frequency of false or misleading statements.

Intersting thing you did!

Video processing was part of my life when working in broadcasting here in the late sixties and seventies. No computers back then... All hardwaere, color.

Excuse my ignorance, but what does AOC stand for in this context?

A long time ago in soviet controlled Bulgaria they celebrated the 100-th anniversary of Lenin's birth. The joke was "did you hear George's TV screen got drilled through?" "No, how come?" "Lenin's beard". :-)

Some ex-bartender. Try google.

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From Google AI :

While there is no built-in "celebrity filter" on standard TVs, you can achieve this through DIY hardware projects or specific software workarounds. Current Smart TV technology uses Automatic Content Recognition (ACR), but it is primarily used to track your viewing habits rather than to give you control over blocking specific faces.

The most direct solution for this specific need is a DIY device called the "Enough Already" project.

How it works: This device uses an Arduino board connected to a video shield to scan Closed Captioning (CC) data in real time. Function: You can pre-program specific names. When those names appear in the captions, the device sends an infrared (IR) signal to your TV to either mute the audio for 30 seconds or change the channel. Availability: This is a hobbyist project, so you typically need to build it yourself using instructions from sites like Instructables.

What irritates me is when something like a television interview has statements that would kick off the voice-stress analysis, and they altered the audio track to change the tone, it's considered tampering.

Found this:

Right-wing creeps don't like her at all. The bar-tending was strictly from hunger - it paid better left-wing political activism, but John Larkin doesn't approve of left wing political activism, or any kind of left-wing democratic activity. He likes his politicians to be visibly purchasable.

My father, in the Netherlands, had a portrait of Lenin on the wall he was left :-) He was a member of the communist party here in the Netherlands. Also was activve in the resistance against the Germam occupation. He was put in a concentration camp by Germany in WW2 and freed by the Russians.

The Democratic Socialists are best at exporting people and jobs to Texas and Florida and China.

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That should have been intuitively obvious. However, it is nice to have one's assumptions confirmed by a machine.

It wasn't a real paying project. The original project was identifying ham radio operators by their voice characteristics during a "net" (similar to a group chat). That was difficult because everyone tended to mumble or speed talk their call signs. It was also rather difficult for net control, who had to read back the call signs to make sure he heard it correctly. Trying to use voice computer identification or correlation was difficult, even if we compared the call sign with a pre-recorded sample by the same person.

Someone decided it might be possible to identify the transmitter instead of the user. Most radios used a PLL (phased lock loop) to control the transmit frequency. When switching between receive and transmit, the divider ratio would also change, causing a brief time when the PLL was desperately changing frequency. To a receiver, it appears as a momentary (200msec???) change in frequency, which would vary with the PLL design and PLL adjustments tuned. On an FM (frequency modulation) receiver, the waveform appeared to be unique and recognizable. The process is called fingerprinting.

That worked, but there was a problem. At the time (1977???) equipment capable of digitizing the FM waveform and comparing the result with a database of radios and operators was not commonly available. Much later, someone turned it into a product:

So, I gave up and decided voice identification was too difficult. The demodulated FM was good enough to function as a lie detector. The plan was to listened to over the air conversations and expose the fabricators of tall tails, which was just about everyone. That failed as soon as the other hams discovered what I was doing. So, I decided to use the lie detector on broadcast radio and television. That also failed, but I don't have time right now to explain.

I've been there. I attended 3 colleges. They all had AM (carrier current) and FM broadcast facilities. I was involved in all of them. No TV.

You have been lucky the Russians were stopped at Berlin, you don't want to live under their occupation. Trust someone who has.

BTW, did the glass frame of Lenin's portrait survive the beard? :D

That sure is new to me!

Lots of special effects in color TV transmissions were done with analog and digital electronics even without computers Ampex had the HS100 slow motion system, basically a huge harddisc.