
From: "David A. Desrosiers" <hacker@gnu-designs.com>
You've "invented" camera features? What hardware did you use when building these features into your camera? What camera model did you use as a base unit?
Inventions nor patentions require physical hardware because the inventions can be readily described in the text. Patent office does not require inventors to send the hardware to them, anymore. I invented, but I have not patented. It basically does not matter which camera gets the features first, but I favor Canon EOS 300D, Nikon D70, and equivalent competitors. I'm curious why you were not interested in the features itself. They are basically public domain, but manufacturers could be interested in them more, if such features appears first in their camera. The competition is now on the camera features. Juhana -- http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-graphics-dev for developers of open source graphics software

At Tue, 29 Mar 2005 19:38:17 +0300, Juhana Sadeharju wrote:
I'm curious why you were not interested in the features itself.
Now I'm curious: Could you tell us about the features? ... especially since I think that hardware features are probably not needed that much: Software can automatically detect page borders and correct distortions. As an example have a look at the Bookeye software: It has a crappy user interface but mostly it does a good job. To improve automatic detection of distortions it may be interesting to experiment with generation and interpretation of stereo photos of book pages, but that's probably overkill. -- Felix E. Klee
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