Where you can upload a pic of a mystery item somewhere, direct a search
engine to it , analyses it and finds similar. ?
I have a no name web cam I would like to find a driver for and also a few
hundred, no context silver-plated brass widgets , no name /number etc also,
I'd like to identify

On 29/04/2010 12:05, N_Cook wrote:
Where you can upload a pic of a mystery item somewhere, direct a search
engine to it , analyses it and finds similar. ?
I have a no name web cam I would like to find a driver

That's easy (unless some rules have been broken).

Google 'usb device id list' and ask your operating system what device id
it sees.

for and also a few
hundred, no context silver-plated brass widgets , no name /number etc also,
I'd like to identify

That is a bit harder, needs human eyes. Can you post a picture on
somewhere like photobucket?

--
Adrian C

In article , Adrian C wrote:
On 29/04/2010 12:05, N_Cook wrote:
Where you can upload a pic of a mystery item somewhere, direct a search
engine to it , analyses it and finds similar. ?
I have a no name web cam I would like to find a driver

That's easy (unless some rules have been broken).

Google 'usb device id list' and ask your operating system what device id
it sees.

for and also a few
hundred, no context silver-plated brass widgets , no name /number etc also,
I'd like to identify

That is a bit harder, needs human eyes. Can you post a picture on
somewhere like photobucket?


Search engines do not analyse pictures. You do need to up load pictures and have experts analyse,
like a forum for silver plated brass widgets. You show them where to find pictures.

By the way, Yahoo still favors using Flicker for their image library, but
have greatly improved their image library. I have also noticed they are better
than Google at indexing many websites, and like always, you have to use different
search engines to find the info you are looking for.

greg

On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 12:05:09 +0100, "N_Cook"
wrote:

Where you can upload a pic of a mystery item somewhere, direct a search
engine to it , analyses it and finds similar. ?
I have a no name web cam I would like to find a driver for and also a few
hundred, no context silver-plated brass widgets , no name /number etc also,
I'd like to identify

**Would something like this work?


http://www.tineye.com/

Though I think you'd have to load the picture somewhere first like
flickr or something.

kaboom wrote in message
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On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 12:05:09 +0100, "N_Cook"
wrote:

Where you can upload a pic of a mystery item somewhere, direct a search
engine to it , analyses it and finds similar. ?
I have a no name web cam I would like to find a driver for and also a
few
hundred, no context silver-plated brass widgets , no name /number etc
also,
I'd like to identify

**Would something like this work?


http://www.tineye.com/

Though I think you'd have to load the picture somewhere first like
flickr or something.


I imagine that is for copyright infringement tracing, kept returning 0
results whatever I uploaded to it or directed it to

GregS wrote in message
...
In article , Adrian C
wrote:
On 29/04/2010 12:05, N_Cook wrote:
Where you can upload a pic of a mystery item somewhere, direct a search
engine to it , analyses it and finds similar. ?
I have a no name web cam I would like to find a driver

That's easy (unless some rules have been broken).

Google 'usb device id list' and ask your operating system what device id
it sees.

for and also a few
hundred, no context silver-plated brass widgets , no name /number etc
also,
I'd like to identify

That is a bit harder, needs human eyes. Can you post a picture on
somewhere like photobucket?


Search engines do not analyse pictures. You do need to up load pictures
and have experts analyse,
like a forum for silver plated brass widgets. You show them where to find
pictures.

By the way, Yahoo still favors using Flicker for their image library, but
have greatly improved their image library. I have also noticed they are
better
than Google at indexing many websites, and like always, you have to use
different
search engines to find the info you are looking for.

greg


Not really much to photograph
The widgets have a shape like bootlace ferrules but not for crimping as
thicker brass and also silver plating. Maybe a variant of turret tags for
setting in pcb without the turrets or some sort of terminal or pin.
12.5 mm long, hole through axis with a ridge around the outside, one end 1mm
hole and 2.5mm outside dimension and other end 2.8mm hole and 3.8mm outside.

On 30/04/2010 08:36, N_Cook wrote:
Not really much to photograph
The widgets have a shape like bootlace ferrules but not for crimping as
thicker brass and also silver plating. Maybe a variant of turret tags for
setting in pcb without the turrets or some sort of terminal or pin.
12.5 mm long, hole through axis with a ridge around the outside, one end 1mm
hole and 2.5mm outside dimension and other end 2.8mm hole and 3.8mm outside.


I think its a pin contact insert for a multi-pole connector. The ridge
fixes the pin in whatever material is the connector body and wires are
pushed and soldered inside the thicker end of it.

--
Adrian C

Adrian C wrote in message
...
On 30/04/2010 08:36, N_Cook wrote:
Not really much to photograph
The widgets have a shape like bootlace ferrules but not for crimping as
thicker brass and also silver plating. Maybe a variant of turret tags
for
setting in pcb without the turrets or some sort of terminal or pin.
12.5 mm long, hole through axis with a ridge around the outside, one end
1mm
hole and 2.5mm outside dimension and other end 2.8mm hole and 3.8mm
outside.


I think its a pin contact insert for a multi-pole connector. The ridge
fixes the pin in whatever material is the connector body and wires are
pushed and soldered inside the thicker end of it.

--
Adrian C


DIN41612 type connectors with power carrying pins incorporated perhaps, like
these
http://media4.rscomponents.catalogue...Images/R469746
-01.jpg

Looking again there are different sizes , but not mutually pluggable and
none have slits or sprung bits and silvered brass seems a bit odd for power
connectors

http://diverse.4mg.com/silvered_pins.jpg

On 01/05/2010 10:55, N_Cook wrote:
Looking again there are different sizes , but not mutually pluggable and
none have slits or sprung bits and silvered brass seems a bit odd for power
connectors

http://diverse.4mg.com/silvered_pins.jpg



They look like pins for an Edac or Harting type connector

On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 18:53:40 +0100, Adrian C put
finger to keyboard and composed:

Google 'usb device id list' and ask your operating system what device id
it sees.

You can detect your USB hardware with Microsoft's UVCView utility, or
with lsusb (Linux):

http://www.users.on.net/~fzabkar/USB...VCView.x86.exe
http://linuxcommand.org/man_pages/lsusb8.html
http://sourceforge.net/projects/linu...iles/usbutils/

- Franc Zabkar
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Please remove one 'i' from my address when replying by email.

Franc Zabkar wrote in message
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On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 18:53:40 +0100, Adrian C put
finger to keyboard and composed:

Google 'usb device id list' and ask your operating system what device id
it sees.

You can detect your USB hardware with Microsoft's UVCView utility, or
with lsusb (Linux):

http://www.users.on.net/~fzabkar/USB...VCView.x86.exe
http://linuxcommand.org/man_pages/lsusb8.html
http://sourceforge.net/projects/linu...iles/usbutils/

- Franc Zabkar
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Please remove one 'i' from my address when replying by email.


Thanks for that, not aware of them ,UVCView.x86.exe and also USBview worked
.. Webcam identified and driver and manual downloaded.

Franc Zabkar wrote:
On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 18:53:40 +0100, Adrian C put
finger to keyboard and composed:

Google 'usb device id list' and ask your operating system what device id
it sees.

You can detect your USB hardware with Microsoft's UVCView utility, or
with lsusb (Linux):

http://www.users.on.net/~fzabkar/USB...VCView.x86.exe
http://linuxcommand.org/man_pages/lsusb8.html
http://sourceforge.net/projects/linu...iles/usbutils/

- Franc Zabkar
M$ did not know it but google found:
ftp://ftp.efo.ru/pub/ftdichip/Utilities/UVCView.x86.exe

A decade ago some linguist claimed to have a system that could search
voice files. I lost track of her but she said she had worked for Mitch
Kapoor before her doctorate.

My guess is you could convert the photos to text using GIFSCII, which
would make them sufficiently fuzzy. They you would use a 4x4
transformation (with perspective scalings in the fourth dimension) to
convert everything to the same frame of reference.

I'd guess it exists already, but some gatekeeper refuses to believe it
enough to promote it.

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Search for "geometric search engine"
or "vector search engine".. just my first stab


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I believe JPEG/MPEG uses eigencovariance to transform the image to the
coordinate system that requires the least possible storage, so that
should already take care of the frame of reference. I suspect if you
can get a search engine to just notice were in the JPEG this is
located, it can find similar images. SOme of this work resulted from
Kalman, Dhrymes & Los working on the SDI identification problem in the
late 1980s.
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http://www.panix.com/~vjp2/vasos.htm
---{Nothing herein constitutes advice. Everything fully disclaimed.}---
[Homeland Security means private firearms not lazy obstructive guards]
[Urb sprawl confounds terror] [Phooey on GUI: Windows for subprime Bimbos]