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To: Joe Wagner who wrote (1357)	4/28/1999 2:08:00 AM
From: Clarksterh	Respond to of 5853

Joe - . For example if the computer has identified that the Grand Prize White Acura, has been driven onto the field it would match the image to one in its database, know what it is and use that information to fill in the data to make it look like a sharp crisp image of an Acura that could be viewed from any angle. When in reality, what you are seeing, may not be exactly what is there. Do you think it is possible to overlay images like this, if the computer needs to provide more data than is available from the camera? Sure, I expect that sometime well before 10 years from now we will have image recognition of at least some specific kinds of items. The real issue is doing it for all items in real time in such a way that humans don't see the flaws. The most interesting thing about such a process is that the computer won't have to resolve everything to the same level of detail. For instance a picture of a face with very glaring image artifacts when viewed right side up looks fine when viewed upside down. (Thus a telepresence that looks fine right-side up might look pretty bad upside down. Why does a mirror only reverse left-right, but not up-down.?) Just some more things to think about. Clark

To: Joe Wagner who wrote (1357)	4/28/1999 9:05:00 AM
From: John Stichnoth	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 5853

possible to overlay images like this, if the computer needs to provide more data than is available from the camera? That's not too different in concept from what they are doing for ads on the baseball field right now. Those ads on the wall behind home plate, which you see on TV, are not actually there. (They are superimposed by computer before transmitting to the home. These glaring white ads would present a real danger to the ball players trying to see a crisp fresh white line drive hit off of Sammy Sosa's bat.) And, the step from a two dimensional ad to three dimensions is fairly trivial, I believe. As for projecting it into real space: At the Federal Reserve Bank in New York they have a gold bar that you can take home with you--if you can pick it up. It is so inviting, and so real, that you can't stop yourself from reaching out to touch it. But then it disappears! It's a hologram. Just a couple of thoughts from an occasional visitor.