User`s guide

1 Getting Started
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Image Acquisition Toolbox Product Description
Acquire images and video from industry-standard hardware
Image Acquisition Toolbox enables you to acquire images and video from cameras
and frame grabbers directly into MATLAB
®
and Simulink
®
. You can detect hardware
automatically, and configure hardware properties. Advanced workflows let you
trigger acquisition while processing in-the-loop, perform background acquisition, and
synchronize sampling across several multimodal devices. With support for multiple
hardware vendors and industry standards, you can use imaging devices, ranging from
inexpensive Web cameras to high-end scientific and industrial devices that meet low-
light, high-speed, and other challenging requirements.
Key Features
•
Support for industry standards, including DCAM, Camera Link
®
, and GigE Vision
•
Support for common OS interfaces for webcams, including DirectShow
®
, QuickTime,
and Video4Linux2
• Support for a range of industrial and scientific hardware vendors
• Multiple acquisition modes and buffer management options
• Synchronization of multimodal acquisition devices with hardware triggering
• Image Acquisition app for rapid hardware configuration, image acquisition, and live
video previewing
• Support for C code generation in Simulink