Safety Zone
Use a thermal imaging camera and software to detect when your hand is too close to a saw blade and shut down the saw. This could work for any dangerous tool or equipment. Setup would be simple: plug the equipment into a control box, mount the camera pointed at the blade area, then use the software program to mark an exclusion zone. When the camera and software detect the temperature of a hand in the Safety Zone it shuts off. While your hand is still a safe distance from the blade! The software could be as simple as looking for a minimum number of pixels that are in the temperature range of skin. Or complicated enough to recognize the shape of fingers or a hand.
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Tags
Alarm, Cameras, Computers, Defense, Electronics, Health, Imaging, Robotics, Sensors, Tools
ABOUT THE ENTRANT
Name: Eric Henson
Type of entry: individual
Profession: Engineer/Designer
Number of times previously entering contest: never
Eric's favorite design and analysis tools:
DesignCad, Orcad.
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Eric's hobbies and activitiess:
Science Fiction, Movies, Woodworking.
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Eric is inspired by:
Science fiction. An obsession to make things better and safer.
Software used for this entry:
InsideIR
Patent status: none
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