User`s guide

Connecting to Hardware

To connect to an image acquisition device from within 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 connect to.

• “Getting Hardware Information” on page 5-2

• “Creating Image Acquisition Objects” on page 5-8

• “Configuring Image Acquisition Object Properties” on page 5-16

• “Starting and Stopping a Video Input Object” on page 5-22

• “Deleting Image Acquisition Objects” on page 5-25

• “Saving Image Acquisition Objects” on page 5-27

• “Image Acquisition Toolbox Properties” on page 5-28