Camera - life diary

A company in the UK will launch a camera that can record every important event in a user's life.

The RiconRevue camera automatically records every 30 seconds. Photo: Newscientist.

Newscientist said, a few years ago Microsoft's research center at Cambridge University (UK) developed a camera called the SenseCam for researchers about diseases that cause memory impairment, such as Alzheimer's. SenCam has a cord for users to wear on their necks. Every 30 seconds it automatically takes a picture.

SenseCam is integrated with a device that converts mechanical movements into electronic signals and many light sensors to be able to record when users enter a new environment (such as outdoors home). An infrared sensor automatically activates the shooting function when it detects the heat emanating from a person in front of the user. It can capture 30,000 images with 1 GB of internal memory.

Many studies show that people with dementia will retain their memories longer if they regularly review pictures taken by the SenseCam.

Recently Vicon - a company based in Oxford, England and specializing in the production of video recording equipment for the film industry - has just acquired the technology of SenseCam technology and improved it into a ViconRevue camera to produce with rules. Large tissue.

An infrared sensor in ViconRevue automatically activates the shooting function when it detects the body temperature of the person in front. Photo: Newscientist.

Imogen Moorhouse, Vicon's chief executive, revealed that Microsoft decided to sell the patent to the company because they could not meet the needs of scientists using the SenseCam. In the past few years, Microsoft has only produced 500 units. ViconRevue version will be sold for about 820 USD. Scientists will be the object that the marketing company first. ViconRevue will then be sold widely in the market in 2010.

For users, ViconRevue allows them to keep all important events in their daily lives, from phone calls, TV shows, to meetings.

" The great thing about ViconRevue is that even ordinary people can use them. As soon as the extensions market, the price of this camera will decrease. Then they will become part of the artificial memory of People, like the reminders that we often use , "said Henry Kautz, a scientist at the University of Rochester (USA). Kautz is one of the members of the SenseCam technology development team.