I remember hearing that the barcode idea was researched before in SFR and
found to have some unworkable limitations. I think the main problem was
just registering and processing over 200 cars would over run all possible
time savings at the starting line... Can anybody elaborate for me?
-Carl
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeremy Bergsman [mailto:jeremybb@leland.Stanford.EDU]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2000 4:28 PM
> To: Bay_Area_Autocross_List
> Subject: Re: Web Results Notification
>
>
> I think Carl should take his computer talents and create a realtime
> interface between a computer and the timing system. A bar
> code on the side
> of each car, or an AI image recognition system that can find
> and read the
> car number, will tell the computer which car is running and
> the timer will
> tell it the time. Once this is in place the computer can
> look up the data
> that the entrant put in over the web to get the entrant's name and car
> class. All the results can then be quite simply displayed in
> real time on
> one of those video projection systems on the side of the
> motorhome. Version
> 2.0 can do image recognition to recognize the driver and
> determine the car
> class so that the entrant doesn't have to waste 45 seconds
> putting in data
> over the web. Of course it will automatically deduct the
> entry fees from
> his or her bank account.
> --
> Jeremy Bergsman
> jeremybb@stanford.edu
> http://www.stanford.edu/~jeremybb
>
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