ShareCam: Shared Access to a Robotic Streaming Video Camera
Dezhen Song, Ken Goldberg · 2003
ShareCam is a robotic pan, tilt, and zoom streaming video camera controlled by simultaneous frame requests from remote users. Robotic webcameras are commercially available but currently restrict control to only one user at a time. ShareCam introduces a new interface that allows simultaneous control by many users. We will demonstrate the implemented system using a Java-based interface at the conference linked via the Internet to a camera on the UC Berkeley campus. We will also discuss system architecture and several new algorithms we've developed to compute optimal camera paramters based on user frame requests. ShareCam can be tested online at: www.tele-actor.net/sharecam/ Categories and Subject Descriptors H.4.3 [Information System Applications]: Communication Applications 1.