Week 11

The team chose to work with Intel's "real-sense" camera. Even though it is not as fast as some cameras, this one knows how to detect dozens of different marks on the human face, and is very sensitive to every little movement. This way, the patient could perform different activities only by moving different facial areas.

The camera will be placed in the patient's bedroom and will be able to perceive any small movement that we would set in the program. We decided to focus on the eyebrows, so that the first operations the system will perform would be using the eyebrow.

In addition to that, we want the system to work in the dark, so that when the patient is not connected to the other system and is in the bedroom, he could activate the system even if it is dark and everyone else is asleep. How do we do it? At this moment, we connected a lamp that works on a minimal dimmer, the lamp turns on in a way that it distributes light at a minimal level in order to enable the camera to identify facial movements. When the camera succeeds to do so, the dimmer turns off and the light becomes fixated. We hope this is a temporary solution until we will be able to work with an infra-red camera in the "real-sense" camera, another reason why we chose this technology.