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Trackerpod / Powerpod USB pan/tilt robotic tripod by Eagletron[english / nederlands]
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The TrackerPod - Robotic Control for your webcam
TrackerPod is a small robotic tripod on which you mount a webcam, and TrackerCam is Artificial Intelligence software to control camera movement from your computer. Together they perform the function of a robotic camera-man for your webcam. With the system installed, your camera comes robotically alive, panning, tilting, and zooming under your computer's control.
With the TrackerCam system, you get all the functionality of an expensive professional web camera and more, at a fraction of the cost!
What Can the TrackerCam Do?
- Remote Control - Connect to your TrackerCam over the web and make it pan, tilt, and zoom to see what you want with simple mouse-clicks or voice commands. Works with any webcam.
- Digital Zoom - Scale the camera image from 50% to 300% to get a full view or close-up view using an ordinary webcam - takes advantage of high resolution webcams too.
- Surveillance - Set your TrackerCam to scan a room or area in a simple or complex pattern exactly as you specify. Useful for monitoring banks, lobbies, workshop, parking lot, daycare, workrooms, etc.
- Motion Tracking - The TrackerCam is tuned to track all human skin tones and can automatically pan and tilt to track the nearest person as they move around. Quality of tracking depends on quality of webcam.
- Video Capture - Set your TrackerCam to capture video from its input to your computer. Make your own home movies!
- Remote Monitoring - With our surveillance, motion detection, tracking, and remote control features, the TrackerCam can monitor an entire room by detecting, tracking and recording movement. From anywhere in the world, use your web browser to view a history of the movement captured by your TrackerCam!
What Do these Functions Give You?
- Freedom - With our person-tracking feature, you will no longer be confined to a fixed spot when video conferencing with your family, friends, and business associates. The TrackerCam automatically pans and tilts to keep you centered in the picture as you move around.
- Flexibility - The TrackerPod's ultra-wide range of movement lets your camera point anywhere instantly without clumsy manual positioning or propping. With our point-and-click positioning feature, you can center subjects in the picture just by clicking on them. Or, with our mouse-tracking feature, you can pan and tilt anywhere by simply dragging your mouse around.
- Improved Video-Conferencing - Using our specially designed software, we can help you get rid of the choppy, broken images normally associated with current video conferencing software.
- Ease of Use - Our well-designed user interface lets you track movement, record videos, capture and upload regular or panoramic images with a simple click of a mouse or voice commands!
- Compatibility - The TrackerCam works with your standard USB pc-cam (such as Logitech QuickCam® or Creative® WebCam) and is compatible with whatever video conferencing software you are currently using.
Detailed Features
- Motorized base (TrackerPod) gives ordinary pc-cams ultra-wide angles of rotation
(160 degrees pan and 110 degrees tilt at up to 100 degrees per second) - Digital zoom from 50% to 300% using an ordinary pc-cam.
- Surveillance sweep of chosen path and speed
- Automatic visual tracking of subject
- Automatic image centering of subject
- Motion detection and capture
- Mouse-controlled camera positioning
- Voice command response
- Compatible with standard pc-cams with WDM drivers such as
Logitech QuickCam® Pro 4000 or Creative® WebCam 3 - Compatible with existing video conferencing software such as Microsoft® NetMeetingTM, MSN IM, or Yahoo! IM
- Improves stream speed of live video conferencing
- Movie video and audio capturing while tracking
- Still image capturing
- Automatic panorama image capturing
- Internet-ready with password-protected web server
- Internet password-protected remote positioning
- Internet password-protected viewing of motion history
- Very easy to install and use
Minimum System Requirements
- Windows® 98SE, ME, 2000, or XP.
- Genuine Intel® PentiumTM, Pentium II, Pentium III, AMD® K6, AMD K6-2 processor running at 133 MHz or higher; for best performance, 200 MHz or above is recommended
- 32MB RAM
- available USB port
- CD-ROM drive
- Display adapter capable of 24 bit color at 640x480
- Windows compatible sound card and microphone (for voice command features)
- Modem or LAN access to the Internet at 28.8Kbps or faster required (for video conferencing)
- Web browser such as Microsoft Internet ExplorerTM 4.0 or higher, Netscape NavigatorTM 6.0 or higher
- 20MB available hard disk space
Don't have a camera?
We recommend and bundle the Logitech QuickCam® Pro 4000.
TrackerPod Warranty
The Eagletron TrackerPod comes with a one year manufacturer's warranty.