BRIDGING PHYSICAL BARRIERS

Part A | Wireless Technologies

Part B | Display Technologies

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thods for sending and receiving real-time images + video

rough physical boundaries:

• Mobile Mounted Camera

• Smart Phone over 3G Network or Wi-Fi
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 WIRELESS TECHNOLOGIES | Mobile
Mounted Camera

S T E V E M A N N , University of Toronto
Fo u n d in g m e m b e r o f W e a ra b le C o m p u te r G ro u p in M IT M e d ia La b

• Coined terms sousveillance and inverse surveillance

to describe the recording of activity from the perspective
of the participant through a small portable or wearable
recording device
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• ‘sous’ french word for ‘below’ - the term expresses a shift

from ‘eye in the sky’ surveillance to observation on the
ground level
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WIRELESS TECHNOLOGIES | Mobile
Mounted Camera

Wearable wireless webcam captures EyeTap – acts as a camera to record the scene available to the eye and super
personal experience imposes computer generated imagery on the original scene
WIRELESS TECHNOLOGIES | Smart Phones

• Camera
• Video
• GPS
• Digital
Compass
• 3G Support
• Wifi
• Bluetooth
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WIRELESS TECHNOLOGIES | Information
Transmission

Sending and receiving information through 3G network or

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Wifi
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• Videos can be tagged with a location, orientation and time
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• Each frame of a video can be saved online and stamped with a Unix Time
Stamp http://www.unixtimestamp.com
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• The frames can then be recompiled based on their time stamp and
retrieved
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Five Methods of Transferring Captured Data

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1. Qik.com
2. Viking Locator
3. UDP Library
4. Rocket Hub
WIRELESS TECHNOLOGIES | [1] qik.com

• QIK.com is a website that

enables you to share real-
time videos online from
your smart phone
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• “We tag the stream at every
path it takes, from the
instant a person clicks the
Stream button to the video
appearing on the web. The
entire path is then
analyzed, weighed against
various parameters and
optimized to ensure speed
of delivery. This has led to
us achieving latency as low
as half a second to three
seconds for our live video
streams” -
qik.com
WIRELESS TECHNOLOGIES | [2] Viking
Locator

• Viking Locator can be used to

support qik.com
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• Viking Locator is a third party

mobile application that gets
information from GPS and
sends a data string to a PHP at
specified intervals and saved
online
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• Location information can be sent

to Google Maps, Flickr,
Smartphone Apps
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Friendmapper
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WIRELESS TECHNOLOGIES | [3] UDP
Library

• User Data Protocol, UDP is one of two major Internet

transport protocols
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• UDP allows computer applications to send messages to a
host network without requiring prior communication to
set up transmission channels or data paths
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• Peer-to-Peer: UDP treats each server request as an
independent transaction meaning it is useful for servers
that answer to small queries from a significant number of
clients
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• Devices can speak to one another through Processing to
Processing
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WIRELESS TECHNOLOGIES | [4] Rocket
Hub

• Rogers Wireless recently unveiled Rocket Hub, a device that

allows multiple users to share one wireless internet
connection
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• Ideal for providing high speed internet services in area

where there is no fixed line infrastructure
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WIRELESS TECHNOLOGIES | [5] Mobile
Digital TV

• Mobile TV will allow you to see anything on your TV through

your smart device
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• Slingbox connects to your TV or any video output device and
streams the signal to another television, computer or
smart phone in real-time via internet or local network
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WIRELESS TECHNOLOGIES | To Come:
3.5G, 4G

• 4G refers to the fourth generation of cellular wireless

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• A 4G system is intended to provide a secure IP based
solution where facilities such as voice, data and streamed
multimedia will be provided at much higher rates
compared to previous generations
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• 4G would support video chat, mobile TV, HDTV content,
digital video broadcasting
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Part A | Wireless Technologies

Part B | Display Technologies

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M e th o d s fo r d isp la yin g tra n sfe rre d d a ta :

• PDP, Plasma Display Panel

• LCD, Liquid Crystal Display
• DLP, Digital Light Processing
• Laser Video Display
• Electronic Paper
• Thermochromatic Ink
• OLED, Organic Light-Emitted Diode
• 3D Display
• Volumetric Display
• Physical Pixel
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P D P , P la sm a D isp la y Pa n e l

• Typical Use: TV
• Flat panel display where tiny
cells between two panels of
glass hold a mixture of gases
• The gas in the cells is
electrically turned into a
plasma (partially ionized gas)
which then excites
phosphors to emit light
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LC D , Liq u id C rysta l D isp la y

• Typical Use: TV, Computer

Monitor
• flat panel used for electronically
displaying information such
as text, images and moving
pictures
• made up of any number of
pixels filled with liquid
crystals and arrayed in front
of a light source or reflector
to produce images in color or
monochrome
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D LP , D ig ita l Lig h t Pro ce ssin g

• Typical Use: Video Projection,
Cinema Projection (rear
projection)
• image is created by small
microscopic mirrors laid out in
a matrix on a semiconductor
chip, each mirror represents
one or more pixels in the
projected image
• Colours are produced either by
placing a colour wheel
between the lamp and the DLP
chip or by using individual light
sources to produce primary
colours, LEDs or lasers
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La se r V id e o D isp la y

• Typical Use: TV
• Self-contained rear projection
• Replaces conventional high-intensity discharge lamps with
three coloured lasers
• Current TVs display 40% of the colour gamut that we can
perceive while Laser TV technology claim to reproduce
90% of the colours visible to us
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E le ctro n ic Pa p e r

• Typical Use: e-books, readers

• display technology designed to
mimic the appearance of ink
on paper
• capable of holding text and
images indefinitely without
drawing electricity while
allowing the image to be
changed later
• Forms visible images by
rearranged charged pigment
particles by an applied electric
field
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T h e rm o ch ro m a tic In ks

• Typical Use: Thermometers, Toys

• Thermochromatic ink is a type of
dye that changes colour when
temperatures increase or
decrease
• Can also turn transparent when
heat is applied ex). found on
corners of examination sheet
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T h e rm o ch ro m a tic In ks

• http://www.fashioningtech.com/profiles/blogs/thermochromatic-
• http://www.notcot.com/archives/2009/09/la_confusion_de.php
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O LE D , O rg a n ic Lig h t-E m ittin g D io d e

• Typical Use: TV, Computer

Monitor, Mobile Phone
• OLED is a light emitting diode
whose emissive
electroluminescent layer is
composed of a film of organic
compounds
• Advantages: does not require
backlight, displays true colour,
draws less power
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3 D D isp la y

• Typical Use: Anaglyph images &

Polarized Glasses
• Stereopsis technology uses a
separate device for each
person viewing the scene to
provide a different image to
the person’s left and right
eyes producing a 3D image
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V o lu m e tric D isp la y
• Display device that forms a
visual representation of an
object in three physical
dimensions
• One type is called Static
Volumetric Display where a
volume of space is created out
of active elements that are
transparent in the off state
but are either opaque of
luminous in the on state
• Voxels (Volumetric Pixel) –
representing a value on a
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P h ysica l Pixe ls

• Wooden Mirror, 2008, Daniel

Rozin
• Comprised of 830 square
pieces of wood, each
attached to a servo motor
• a video camera is located at
the center of the piece that
feeds data into the system
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-G5
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References

• http://qik.com
• www.viking.tm
• www.unixtimestamp.com
• http://processing.org/discourse/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=114250688
• www.slingmedia.com
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_display_technology
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