Thanks everybody, this is very interesting!
Now...where do babies come from? Just kidding... -;)


----- Original Message -----
From: "Walter Banks" <walter@BYTECRAFT.COM>
To: <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2000 2:42 PM
Subject: Re: [ot]: How do camera stabilization systems work?


> William Chops Westfield wrote:
> >
> > I've heard:
> >
> > 1) gyros
> > 2) multi-axis accelerometers.
> > 3) edge sensing (in the image) via DSP software.
> >
> > Some apparently work better than others.  (3) was described in
> conjunction
> > with a camera whose image stabilization was said NOT to work very well.
>
> The image stabilization that I am familiar with over scan in each
direction
> by
> 40 pixels or so. They then compute the center mean intensity of the image
> in each axis and adjust the start of line and start of scan line position
> from
> frame to frame.
>
> The image stabilized binoculars use mechanical means (mass) to make
> dynamic changes in the optical path.
>
> Walter Banks
>
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