User`s guide

1 Getting Started
To use Image Acquisition Toolbox to acquire imag e data, you mu st perform
the following basic steps:
Step Description
Step 1: Install and configure your image acquisition device
Step 2: Retrieve information that uniquely identifies your image
acquisitio n d evice to Image Ac quisition Toolbox
Step 3: Create a video input object
Step 4:
Preview the video stream (O p tional)
Step 5:
Configur e image acqu isi t ion obj ect properties (Op tional)
Step 6: Acquire image data
Step 7: Clean up
Step 1: Install Your Image Acquisition Device
Follow the setup instructions that come with your image acq uisition device.
Setup typically involves:
• Installing the frame grabber board in your computer.
• Installing any software drivers required by the device. These are supplied
bythedevicevendor.
• Connecting a camera to a connector on the frame grabber board.
• Verifying that the camera is working properly by running the application
software that came with the camera and viewing a live video stream .
Generic Windows image acquisition devices, such as webcams and digital
video camcorders, typically do not require the installation of a frame grabber
board. You connect these devices directly to your computer via a USB o r
FireWire port.
After installing a nd co n fi gu r in g yo ur image acqu isi tion hardware, start
MATLAB on your computer by double-clicking the icon on your desktop. You
do not need to perform any special configuration of MATLAB to perform
image acquisition.
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