User`s guide

13 Using the Matrox Interface
13-4
Set Properties for Matrox Acquisition
You cannot directly set properties for the matroxcam object in the Image Acquisition
Toolbox. To set acquisition properties, use your Digitizer Configuration File (DCF) file.
You can set properties in the DCF file using the Matrox Intellicam software. The DCF
file contains properties relating to exposure signal, grab mode, sync signal, camera, video
signal, video timing, and pixel clock. Once you have configured these properties in your
DCF file, you create the matroxcam object using that file name and path as an input
argument.
1
Set any properties you want to configure in your DCF file, using the Matrox
Intellicam software.
2
Use the matroxlist function to ensure that MATLAB is discovering your frame
grabber.
matroxlist
ans =
Solios XCL (digitizer 0)
Solios XCL (digitizer 1)
VIO (digitizer 0)
3
Use the matroxcam function to create the object and connect it to the frame grabber.
If you want to use the second frame grabber in the list, the Solios XCL at digitizer
1, use a 2 as the index number, since it is the second device on the list. The second
argument must be the name of your DCF file, entered as a string. It must contain
the fully qualified path to the file as well. In this example, the DCF file is named
mycam.dcf.
m = matroxcam(2, 'C:\Drivers\Solios\dcf\XCL\Basler\A404K\mycam.dcf')
m =
Display Summary for matroxcam:
DeviceName: 'Solios XCL (digitizer 1)'
DCFName: 'C:\Drivers\Solios\dcf\XCL\Basler\A404K\mycam.dcf'
FrameResolution: '1300 x 1080'
Timeout: 10
The four properties shown when you create the object are read-only properties that
identify the frame grabber.