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Re: What is T_Packet_Data.my ??

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Originally Posted by Kevin Watson
Greg, are you saying that the CMUcam2 will occasionally send a t-packet with a non-zero value for .my when it does *not* have a tracking solution?
Correct. I believe I saw non-zero "my"s with very low confidence (possibly as low as 0.)


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Originally Posted by Kevin Watson
BTW, did Rob Steele know about this?
I'm not sure if Rob was around when I made the discovery.


What Keith reported corresponds very closely to my experience, although I didn't attempt controlled experiments. I just noticed that sometimes the camera locked on to a spot well away from the target, and noted that the confidence was zero (or so.)
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