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A properly coded IR signal from the transmitting 'disabler' device could still be picked up by the iPhone even if it was severely attenuated.

How about IR filter + 555 timer connected to an IR LED near the camera lens. Filter down the unwanted IR signal, then wash it away with a flood of intermittent IR of your own.

At ~30fps, you can quickly get 100+ samples to cross-correlate with to search for the encoded 'disable' signal.

Can you explain how that works? I don't have a deep grasp of CCDs, so I don't understand how a signal like this could be encoded within a single 1/30 second frame. I thought that all pixels were captured simultaneously, is that not the case?



No, they simply mean that you quickly gather many whole frames and even if the signal is mostly lost in most of them, enough would remain.




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