User`s guide

4
Connecting to Hardware
To connect to an image acquisition device from w ithin MATLAB, you must
create a video input object. This object represents the connection between
MATLAB and the device. You can use object properties to control various
aspects of the acquisition. Before you can create the object, you need several
pieces of information about the device that you want to conne ct to.
This chapter describes tasks related to establishing a connection between
MATLAB and an image acquisition device. For information about connecting
to an image acquisition device from a Simulink model, see Chapter 8, “Using
the From Video Device Block in Simulink”.
Getting Hardware Information
(p. 4-3)
Describes how to get the information
the toolbox needs to connect to a
specific image acquisitio n device
Creating Image Acquisition Objects
(p. 4-9)
Describes how to create the objects
that Im ag e Acquisition Toolbox uses
to es tablish the connection b etwe en
MATLAB and an image acquisition
device
Config uring Image Acquisition
Object Properties (p. 4-17)
Describes how to modify
characteristics of the acquisition
using properties of the image
acquisition objects
Starting and Stopping a Video Input
Object (p. 4-24)
Describes how to start a nd stop a
video input object