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Re: Tracking the position of a diode in 3space

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From: The Devil Reincarnate
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 01:02
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In article <1durunINNc91@coyote.cs.ubc.ca> harrison@cs.ubc.ca (James Harrison) writes:
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>We have an application for the tracking of the position of a person in
>a larger room with little or no hardware carried by the person being
>tracked.  What we would ideally like to do is know the position of the
>person in a large room (x, y).
>
>Anyone done this?  Know it can/can't be done?

  Try the IR movement detectors. A sharp enough definition would give an X-Y-Z
position if the three detectors were placed on two adjacent walls and the ceiling.

-S
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>James Harrison@cs.ubc.ca           `RPCing as fast as the network will let me.'
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From: ssave@ole.cdac.com (The Devil Reincarnate)
Subject: Re: Tracking the position of a diode in 3space
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