Optical mouse as an inexpensive kilopixel camera

• Main Author: Koh, Cun Yang.
• Other Authors: School of Computer Engineering
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Computer science and engineering::Hardware::Control structures and microprogramming; DRNTU::Engineering::Computer science and engineering::Hardware::Input/output and data communications
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/48574
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Optical mouse is a device that many of us come into contact with daily. Users using it may never give it a thought on how the optical mouse works. It contains a sensor based on optical navigation technology to acquire microscopic images of the surface the mouse is placed on. Then it processed the im...