At 07:31 AM 1/21/98 +1000, Ray Gardiner wrote:
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>What about some image processing to detect the movement using the camera
>you already have?  (I guess it depends on the Field of View)..
>
>PC based frame grabbers are 'relatively' cheap now days, and the motion
>detection algorithm could be simple frame by frame comparison, execution
>times should not be too much of a constraint. Once you have determined the
>center of movement you could then zoom/autofocus and track..

Place is too large and method too slow. Camera doesn't have total area in
field of view, so it needs to pan-compare-etc. Not practical.

BS