Pan/tilt controller with center on click

A: What a cool notion! I'm going to forward this mail to some marketing folks I know, so they can tell me "well duh, we've been asking you engineering folks to build this for years" (that's just how they react to suggestions).

B: I dunno. Given a camera that reports it's field of view relatively well, and a platform that can be position servoed, this should be pretty easy to do in application software. On a PC it should be a piece of cake for the folks doing the interface application.

C: If you find one, could you please post your result here? Thanks.

I'd be inclined to use some IG3085TS-WXc steppers mounted in your assembly for X-Y control fed via a T104XG USB sub interface controller and an IR43RCS power micro-stepping interface module.

There is a better than average chance that you could almost get away with a similar system for the focussing (Z-axis) stuff but you probably will need to use the extra 32 bit precision from the IG3085TS-WXf and an IR43RCS/C driver.

It might be nice but it is going to cost more.

You can download the demonstration PC/Embedded control software (Windows/Linux/BSD) from the manufacturers website and you also get lots of examples for most of the popular micro-controllers along with communications stacks.

DNA

On a sunny day (Tue, 09 Jan 2007 04:00:26 GMT) it happened "Genome" wrote in :

What I was wondering is what system does he want:

Click on point, and have the camera move that to the center. Or Click on object and have camera center it and follow.

The last case: you click on a car somewhere at the edge of view, and the camera brings it to centre and follows it.

Do I get the patent now? LOL

Tracking is not necessary. Centering only.

I'm also not trying to design the system, if possible. I certainly could, but for this application I am searching for COTS systems.

have a look at hawkeye stuff

martin