Optical mouse as an inexpensive kilopixel camera

• Main Author: Hong, Lixiang.
• Other Authors: School of Computer Engineering
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Computer science and engineering::Computing methodologies::Image processing and computer vision
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/44737
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Optical mouse has become one of the staple peripheral for computer nowadays after successfully replacing the mechanical mouse. One of the underlying technologies used in the optical mouse is the use of a high speed camera to capture surface images for the calculation of the mouse movement in the X a...