Re: Simple Still Camera components?

In news:1185851530.867734.167870@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
timestamped Tue, 31 Jul 2007 03:12:10 -0000,
amerdsp <amerdsp@xxxxxxxxxxx> posted:
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|"On Jul 30, 10:38 am, rickman <gnu...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: |
|> On Jul 29, 10:31 pm, amerdsp <amer...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: |
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|> > Greetings, |
|> > I am trying to design and implement a very simple camera that would|
|> > capture VGA quality images [..] |
|[..] |
|> |
|>[..] It was only CIF format (352 x 288) [..] |
|[..] |
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|On the same note, what do you think of using a PIC to do something |
|like this? I read before that PIC's are not great for image |
|processing because the memory is not contiguous. How about ARM, AVR? |
|Any takes on these? |
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|Thanks again.. |
|-- a" |
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Neither a PIC nor AVR would be able to hold an entire VGA nor CIF
image in addressable memory at once. They could still be used for
image processing, if you are willing to work on small parts of an
image at a time, or if you can figure out a way to store enough
information for what you need to know about one portion of the image
while working on another part of the image.

Regards,
Colin Paul Gloster
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