We are attempting to build a building egress system to aid firefighters and other users within homeland defense. The system should allow the user to "see" the general layout of the walls and doors as well as provide data to aid in the determination of the users orientation and position...
Perhaps I wasn't as clear as I should have been. It needs to be a passive scanner. No emmisions (ultrasonic, laser, radio, etc.). I realize that I am asking an exceptionally difficult question, but this is how innovation occurs. My idea is based on the fact that through a single lens everything...
I'm building an augmented reality training system (similar to the virtual yellow first-down marker in football). In order to precisely generate realistic virtual graphics I need to know the distance between the camera and the real object for every pixel in the camera's field of view. I am...