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- From: harrison@cs.ubc.ca (James Harrison)
- Newsgroups: sci.electronics
- Subject: Tracking the position of a diode in 3space
- Date: 12 Nov 1992 16:13:11 -0800
- Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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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).
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- Beam breaking etc are okay but would require too much hardware.
- Cameras may be too computationally expensive...
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- So: Can the position of those antenna/diodes used in anti-theft
- devices in clothing stores be used? Emit a RF pulse and wait for it's
- chirp?
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- Anyone done this? Know it can/can't be done?
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- Thanks
- James
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