I want to detect the device is hold vertically just like when we are taking the Panorama Picture.
What should be the condition for Accelerometer for X,Y and Z-axis?
Help me to solve this.
Thank you,
The force of gravity is always applied to the raw accelerometer, so if the force fector is straight down, then the phone is straight.
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if you check this thread started from me (Calculate the distance between the iPhone and a door, knowing their physical widths) I accepted an answer, that states, correctly, that if you do not know focal lens data of the camera of the iPhone, there is no easy way to calculate the distance between an iPhone and, let's say, a door, knowing its width.
I have to start another thread now asking:
I know the physical (not only in pixel) size of the screen of the iPhone (for iPhone 5 is 2.31 inches)
Also I know the width of a door.
Now, if I am in the position where the width of the door fits perfectly in the width of the iPhone itself (not of the camera), and the iPhone stands perfectly vertical, is it possible to know the distance between the iPhone and the door in that moment?
Thank you for your kind help!
I assume you mean that there is some outside image capturing device (be it a human eye or another camera) and the image capturing device, the phone, and the door are all in a line such that the phone appears to be the same width as the door.
In this case, you still need a) the distance between the image capturing device and the phone and b) the optical information (such as focal length) of the image capturing device. Just sit down with a pen and paper and draw out the geometry for a little bit and you'll see that.
This is going to involve a trigonometric calculation. I think you might have done R&D on Gyroscope, if not then surely you should refer it.
1) Find angle your phone is making with ground. Like when you point the device's camera to bottom of the object.
2) Now you are having one angle and you are making 90 degree with ground. So basically you are forming a right angled triangle. And you had just found one of your angle near your hand.
3) You can approximate distance of your phone from surface to your hand. So you got one side of triangle and one angle. Thus you can find second side i.e distance between you and object.
Hope this helps. :)
I want to count number of shake horizontally and vertically, I have referred to UIAcceleration
I have also referred to Motion Events
But couldn't come up with better approach.
Any kind of help is highly appreciated , code , reference, or any type.
i just want to count the number of shake user make by shaking the iphone device, the shake can be vertically or horizontally holding iphone in normal way(home key at the bottom)
Try DiceShaker. You'll need to use the code for "Isolating Instantaneous Motion from Acceleration Data" given in Listing 4-6 of the motion events (also called high-pass filter computation) documentation to detect acceleration provided by user.
EDIT: The accelerometer constantly provides the gravity component readings because the accelerometer works with a bunch of springs that determine the force component (in the direction of each spring's length) by the increase/decrease in the spring's length. So just remove the constant gravity(the force that's ALWAYS working) component to detect the change provided by the user (hence the name high-pass). Luckily, we don't need to figure out how to because Apple has done the hard work and given the equations in their documentation!
I'm developing a project for my university, to manipulate gyroscope/accelerometer values obtained from the iPhone 4. But i'm stuck with a mathmatical issue and I hope you guys can help me out.
I'll give you an example of what's about:
Your iPhone is face up and you move it UP, on Y axis.
Your iPhone is face right and you move it UP, on X axis this time (since you rotated the iphone 90 degrees).
On the second time, the computer interprets that i've moved the iphone to the RIGHT, but it's wrong. I've moved it up, but my axis were rotated since the iphone was face right.
What do I need?
I need a way to VIRTUALY position back the iphone face up (where the 3 axis are correct) and give each axis his correct movement value.
If the iphone is turned 90 degrees, then I can easily switch X-Z axis and its correct. But I want to make it work for any angle of rotation.
I would be really thankfull if anyone can help me with some sort of pseudo-algorithm or mathmatical description of what to do.
NOTE: I only need a way to compensate all three axis acording with the iPhone rotation.
Update:
I don't actually need the precise values, since I'm making a graph coparition between all the records I get from the gyroscope. I'll make it clearer.
-> You draw a LETTER just by moving the iphone in the air and my application will recognize the letter you just drew. The method I use for recognition is based on TFT algorithm, and recording to a database with sample values originated from letters I've previously drawed.
My point is: Don't really matter the values I get, or what they represent. All I need is that all graphs be equal even if the iPhone is on different position. Quite hard to explain, but if you draw the letter 'P' with the iphone turned UP, the graph originated will be different if you draw the 'P' with the iPhone turned RIGHT.
So I need to compensate the axis to their original orientation, that way I'll get always similar graphs.
This post was before iOS5 was released. FYI to anyone coming here, DeviceMotion relative to world - multiplyByInverseOfAttitude shows how to transform device-relative acceleration values to earth-relative for iOS5 and above.
So, what you want is to convert from iPhone's coordinate system (or object/tangent system) to world coordinate system (or vice versa, as you see it, doesn't matter). You know the iPhone coordinate system as you have gyroscope data. So what you want is to create the object->world transformation matrix and multiple each of the velocity vectors (from accelerometer) by it.
Take a look here for a good explanation of tangent space and how to create tangent space -> world transformation matrix. If you aren't familiar with 3D/linear math it might be a bit tricky, but worth the trouble.
I want to create a 360 degree turntable showing lots of pictures (12, 24 or 36) by controlling that rotation with touch events (like that example but coded for an iOS app natively).
The simplest idea depending on the touch position is to load that specific uiimage.
Any ideas what's the best practice for that? Is there a chance to create that image-turntable with the help of coreanimation faster? Any other hints on that? Any other projects known where I can get some help on that?
Thanks for your time and hints in the right direction.
Here's another example for an ipad-app from the "audi a8".
From the first example it becomes obvious that the objects have actually been photographed for each angle of rotation. This is the really tricky part. You will need a tripod and a camera with remote control, and if possible also a rotational platter to keep angles consistent.
Implementation is relatively straightforward. As you guessed, you just track the touch positions and, depending on delta to the last touch position, show the appropriate image.
well, you can just use the HTML/CSS/JS used in the same example... just load that in an UIWebView in your app and load your site embedded as a resource...
Subclass UIImageView, load array of your frames, handle tap movement over the screen y-axis and change active image accordingly. Don't forget to loop your images. :)
Is there any way to find, iPhone movement?. I need to know if iPhone is still i.e its not moving then do some thing or else if iPhone is moving(in vertical or horizontal direction) do some logic.
Do I need to read accelerometer didAccelerate method. Or there is some other way like reading current location (lat/log) values.
[I DON'T have 3GS]
Please suggest which is the best and robust way to read iPhone movement and how to know if iPhone is still.
Thanks
Yes, you will need to use the UIAccelerometer class. Set the delegate and do some calculations on the accelerometer:didAccelerate delegate message.
The trick is that you will want to set up some threshold values. If there is no sig movement within your range in the x, y, and z axis, the device is not moving.
Of course, slight vibrations will cause value changes, which is why you will need to determine what not moving is for your purposes.