It essentially creates a summary of all moving events and plays that back as a synopsis superimposed over the static background image.

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For whom thoughts of food, and the effects of food, are the constant, dreary background static to normal thought.

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Using motion-detection algorithms, the BriefCam software separates the background (static or non-moving objects) from the moving objects, tracking and analysing any motion within the frame.

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It did not affect the volume or clarity of the speaker, but the static would play in the background and was something of a nuisance.

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