Voice Controlled Time-lapse and Slow Motion Capture Application

Welcome to the World of Voice Controlled Video and Image Capture

Controlled Capture Main Screen

"The new electronic independence re-creates the world in the image of a global village." Marshall McLuhan

Controlled Capture is an easy to use voice controlled image, time-lapse, slow motion, and video capture application. With Controlled Capture, you can study the details of fast events, like a tennis serve, or slow events like a flower opening to full its glory.

The Ins and Outs of Controlled Capture Video Capture

Introducing “Controlled Capture VC”, a voice controlled slow-motion video and time-lapse image capture application for Android. With Controlled Capture, you can capture and slow down nature provided things like a hummingbird flying or capture sports oriented movements like a golf or tennis swing. You can also capture long term events like an evening sunset or the beauty of a flower opening, all controlled by voice commands, using either your device's built-in microphone or a connected Bluetooth headset.

Video Capture Screen

Voice control is very useful for golf swing, batting, or tennis serve capture. For example, to capture your golf swing: mount your device to a tripod or golf bag mounted camera holder, situate your mounted camera behind or beside you, start the Controlled Capture application in video capture mode and enable voice control (a connected Bluetooth headset will help here), point or move the camera so that it captures all of you during your swing, set yourself up for the shot and then say Start. Controlled Capture will then automatically start recording while you take your swing.

Video Player Screen

After your swing video is recorded, you can go back to your device and say Play, and Controlled Capture will automatically start its Media Player for review of the video. You can also say Delete and this newest video will be deleted. You can also record your swing with Controlled Capture's Slo-Mo movie recorder. Here instead of saying Start to record your swing, say Slo-Mo before your swing. Controlled Capture will record your swing and then convert the new video into slow motion, allowing you to see details of your swing not seen at regular video speeds.

The Ins and Outs of Controlled Capture Image Capture

With Controlled Capture, you can easily capture still images or time-lapse movies, using voice commands. Using voice command allows you to concentrate on your stop motion animation work, vice having to go to your camera every time to take the next frame. With Controlled Capture, you simply say Snap under voice control, and an image is acquired, speeding up the stop animation process very nicely.

Controlled Capture Image Capture Screen

In Image capture mode, you can aim your camera at a slow events that you want to record and then say Start. Controlled Capture's voice command will ask you for how long between images, you answer in how many seconds between, and then the time-lapse recording begins until you say Stop. Very useful for long events such as technical demonstrations or progress recordings for a project.

Image File Player Screen

To review your stop motion or time-lapse images, Controlled Capture has a built-in File Player that will playback each image in your Project folder. In the player, you can review each frame individually, delete frames, or convert the whole Project folder into a high-resolution video movie, which you can share with the world.

The Ins and Outs of Controlled Capture Galleries

Controlled Capture has two distinct Galleries, one for all of your videos in your Project, and another for all the time-lapse images in your project. This allows you to quickly review your project to figure out what your next adventure in slow-motion or time-lapse will be.

Controlled Capture Image Gallery

Both Galleries allow you to playback videos or image files with Controlled Capture's built-in media or image file players. You can also delete, share movies or images with family and friends, or move selected images or videos into another project folder.

Controlled Capture Video Gallery

Controlled Capture provides help by long pressing on its various control buttons to see what the button does. Under Voice Control, saying Help opens up the impressive list of voice commands that Controlled Capture understands. We suggest you go through this list to familiarize yourself, for the best possible voice control capturing experience.

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Controlled Capture for Android™ Help Guide

Controlled Capture for Android™ Help Guide

Controlled Capture is an easy to use image and video capture application.

Controlled Capture uses Project folders to store your images and videos. When Controlled Capture is first installed and opened, your default Project folder is called Project01. Projects are stored on your SD card under two folders called DCIM/CCFiles and DCIM/CCVideos. Both images and videos taken by Controlled Capture are saved in your current Project folder in their respective folders, CCFiles or CCVideos with a time-stamped filename.

Introducing “Passive Scan”

A Passive Firearm and Contraband Detection System 

“In designing this new safety system, it was necessary to reject current hardware and software designs to allow the flexibility in designing a firearms and contraband detection system that will meet varying public and private school safety needs in cost and usability.” excerpt: White Paper by R. Fluck”

An idea that has matured to specifically meet the needs for elementary, secondary, and university school safety.

DESIGNED FOR THE NOW

A customer demonstration video showing the capabilities and operational interface of the Passive Scan Model ES3.

“This system can operate in stand-alone mode, or it can be controlled and monitored, via a desktop or laptop computer via USB or Bluetooth, or with your Android Smartphone or tablet.” excerpt: Article by R. Fluck

IMPLEMENTATION AS A DETERRENCE

“…schools should randomly draw classroom numbers and search every student in the selected classroom. This approach provides an element of surprise, which discourages students from bringing weapons to school.”excerpt: Mike Dorn, executive director for Safe Havens International

KNOWLEDGE IS POWER

“It was once said that “It is better to tell the truth than tell a lie”, “It is better to know than not to know”…However, in the case of my “knowing” of the Passive Scan system and knowing that, had this cost-effective and state-of-the-art wonder of technology been deployed and operational on December 14th at a school in Newtown, Connecticut called Sandy Hook Elementary School, little souls and seven adult souls might not have been released to their creator before their time.” excerpt: Capstone by C. Alexander

THE ECONOMICS FACTOR

“The modular approach to manufacturing and the cost savings realized through component selection, allows the system to be offered to the industry at a cost well below currently available metal detection devices.” excerpt: White Paper by R. Fluck

A NEW METHODOLOGY

“I am sure many of you have done childhood experiments, using a bar magnet placed under a piece of paper, and then sprinkled iron filings on top of the paper. Remember the almost bubble like lines that appeared that were produced by the poles of the magnet. These lines also exist on earth, which can be thought of as a very large magnet. Now, consider these magnetic lines around the earth as a fog. We are tuned to this fog, and any item that is surrounded by its own magnetic field, like a firearm, will produce a hole in this fog. This is what we detect. The holes in the fog.”excerpt: presentation by R. Fluck

PUTTING CHILDREN’S SAFETY FIRST

…there is still the unresolved issue of what can be done to eliminate shootings by firearms in our public school systems to the very best of our abilities. The problem seems clear enough. These acts, as unconscionable as they may be, have been tolerated far too long by a society that would quickly assign blame to the perpetrator’s state-of-mind, or to the business that sold the firearm to the perpetrator to begin with. And while there is enough blame to go around regarding both philosophies of thought, the focus always seems to be on the problem post the event and not on a long-term resolution to the problem. We have the technology currently in place to prevent such acts and to hold those accountable who would seek to premeditatedly commit such acts before any loss of life could occur when it clearly could be prevented.” excerpt: Capstone by C. Alexander

Analysis of School Shootings

"In 2013, Everytown began tracking gunfire in schools and at college and universities — public reports that a firearm was discharged inside a school building or on school or campus grounds — and over the next three years identified 160 qualifying incidents, including fatal and nonfatal assaults, suicides, and unintentional shootings."

TECHNOLOGICAL CONTRASTS

A comparison of “Passive Scan” with other metal detectors on the market today.

WIRED and WIRELESS INTERFACING

Android Smartphone Control Application for “Passive Scan”

Desktop Control Software Interface for “Passive Scan”

For more information about the “Passive Scan” firearm and contraband system for your schools and secure venues, please visit: https://www.passivesecurityscan.com/

Python how-to: AndroiDAQ and Serial Communications

One thing that sets the AndroiDAQ module from other data acquisition products on the market is its use of the industry standard FTDI UART to USB conversion integrated circuit for USB serial communications. This allows the designer to use one easy to use USB driver for programming with the AndroiDAQ module in the various popular programming languages and on various operating system platforms, which at times can be a very taunting task with other commercially available data acquisition products. This also makes it easy to develop your application for the AndroiDAQ module in not only Android, Java, and LabVIEW, but for other popular programming languages like Python, which can also be used on multiple platforms. This article is going to present to you how to set up Python for serial communication, via the USB port, so that you can add Python to your list of tools for controlling and reading the AndroiDAQ module.

Using the AndroiDAQ oScope for LabVIEW®.

The AndroiDAQ oScope for LabVIEW is a new LabVIEW application VI that is now included in Controlled Capture Systems’ AndroiDAQ DEMO for LabVIEW library project. oScope allows you to acquire a user set number of analog to digital samples at user set time-based intervals, much like a digital oscilloscope. oScope uses LabVIEW’s Waveform graph to plot the received sample data from the AndroiDAQ module to give you a visual representation of the signal on channel zero of the AndroiDAQ ADC.

The Wonders of Analog to Digital Conversion

In the digital world, information is shared through software using multiple digital patterns of ones and zeros. These digital patterns can represent alphanumeric characters, mathematical operations, memory commands, or any other representative data that when decoded by software, corresponds to understandable information based on an agreed upon model of the digital patterns and data manipulation methods. This is all well and good for applications of math calculation, word processing, database entry, and other symbol based system uses, however, one can ask: how does one get real world physical data into a format of digital patterns that can be used by computers to measure, display, calculate upon, and manipulate the data?

A New Paradigm for Data Acquisition

Like many design engineers and makers versed in open source, I wanted a development board that would allow me to eliminate the compromises in my designs due to manufacturer propriety hardware and software. I was never really happy with the number of channel offerings, firmware limitations, physical size, and costs per channel of commercially available data acquisition products currently on the market today. I was also not satisfied with other simplistic project platforms like the Ardruino and IOIO for use on projects like hexapods, quadcopters and other complex robotic systems that need parallel processes, vice linear processes. There had to be a better way and a better development board that could also be open source. So in 2013, I developed an entirely new data acquisition module and prototyping paradigm that I call AndroiDAQ.

LabVIEW How-to, with the AndroiDAQ Data Acquisition Module

The AndroiDAQ module was designed as an easy to use and complete data acquisition module for multiple platforms. Not only can it be used with the Android operating system, but it can also be easily used with National Instrument’s LabVIEW, as well as JAVA, Python, and other programming languages. To demonstrate this, Controlled Capture Systems offers a complete data acquisition suite for AndroiDAQ and LabVIEW called AndroiDAQ DEMO for LabVIEW. The term DEMO is short for Dream, Engineer, Make, and Operate. The open source nature of DEMO allows users of LabVIEW to open and view the LabVIEW source wiring diagrams to understand the functions of how to control the AndroiDAQ module under USB, Wi-Fi, or Bluetooth to measure the 8-channels of its analog to digital converter (ADC), or control, as inputs or outputs, the 16-channels of digital IO. The wiring diagrams also show you how to read and/or clear or set the built-in AndroiDAQ micro-SD card and AndroiDAQ’s real-time clock. This article is going to explain several of the sub-VIs (or sub-virtual instruments, which are what LabVIEW methods or functions are called) of the DEMO for LabVIEW application, so that you can apply these sub-VIs to your own custom application with the AndroiDAQ module.

Controlled Capture Systems

We believe there is a better way to do everything, to challenge the tried and true; to think outside the box of normal.

These beliefs allow us to provide to you cost effective and complete solutions to bring your product dreams into reality. 

We provide project specific solutions in a complete and confidential manner. Our solutions include:

Data Acquisition for the Internet of Things

Introducing AndroiDAQ: Data Acquisition for Android, LabVIEW and more.

This is a new paradigm in data acquisition for Android, JAVA, Python, and LabVIEW: AndroiDAQ, an eight-core parallel processing data acquisition system used for creating products for the Internet of Things.

AndroiDAQ Compatible with xBee Form Factor Radios 

Prototyping -From Dreamscape to Reality

In 1984, Joseph Ruben directed a science fiction film called “Dreamscape”. In this movie, you are taken to a lab where scientists and system integrators are busy developing head gear, to aid in the monitoring and control of dreams. The first appearance of this head gear is very crude, as it is cumbersome, bulky, and heavy, with wires and leads sticking out everywhere, but later, as the development on the head gear continues, it becomes a sleek, fully functional, and lightweight head set.

Time-lapse, a Window of Opportunity

There is a question of what the term time-lapse means exactly, when referenced to photography and or imaging. According to the website Webopedia, the definition of time-lapse is: “In digital photography, it's the name of the process used to capture a set of images at preset intervals of time.” This seems to be a reasonable definition for either digital or analog image capture, which can go further as the preset intervals of time can be also termed as the frame rate of image capture.