User`s guide

2 Introduction
data. You can log the data to MATLAB in several formats, and also generate
an AVI file, right from the tool.
To open the tool, select Start > Toolboxes > Im age Acquisition > Image
Acqu isition Tool from MATLAB. The tool has extensive Help in the desktop.
As you click in different panes of the user interface, the relevant Help appears
in the Image Acquisition Tool Help pane.
Most of the User’s Guide describes performing tasks using the toolbox via the
MATLAB command line. To learn how to use the desktop tool, see Chapter 3,
“Using the Image A cquisition Tool GUI”.
Supported Devices
Image Acquisition Toolbox includes adaptors that provide support for several
vendors of professional grade image acquisition equipment, devices that
support the IIDC 1394-based Digital Camera Specification (DCAM), and
devices that p rovide Windows Driver Model (WDM) or Video for Windows
(VFW) drivers, such as USB and IEEE 1394 (FireWire, i.LINK
®
) Web cameras,
Digital video (DV) camcorders, and TV tuner cards. For the latest information
about supported hardware, visit the Image Acquisition Toolbox product page
attheMathWorksWebsite(
www.mathworks.com/products/imaq).
The DCAM specification, dev elo pe d by the 1394 Trade Association, describes
a generic interf ace for exchanging data wi th IEEE 1394 (FireWire) digital
cameras that is o ften used in scientific applications. The toolbox’s DCAM
adaptor supports Format 7 , also know n as partial scan mode. The toolbox
uses the prefix
F7_ to identify Format 7 video format names.
Note The toolbox supports only connections to IEEE 1394 (FireWire)
DCAM-compliant devices using the Carnegie Mellon University DCAM driver.
The toolbox is not compatible with any other vendor-supplied driver, even if
the driver is DCAM compliant.
You can add support for additional hardware by writing an adaptor. For more
information, see Chapter 9, “Adding Support for Additional Hardware”.
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