User`s guide

Toolbox Components Overview
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provides several ways to bring one or more frames of data into the workspace where you
can manipulate it as you would any other multidimensional numeric array. “Bringing
Image Data into the MATLAB Workspace” on page 7-3 describes this process.
Finally, you can enhance your image acquisition application by using event callbacks.
The toolbox has defined certain occurrences, such as the triggering of an acquisition, as
events. You can associate the execution of a particular function with a particular event.
“Using Events and Callbacks” on page 8-2 describes this process.
Note: With previous versions of the Image Acquisition Toolbox, the files for all of the
adaptors were included in your installation. Starting with version R2014a, each adaptor
is available separately through the Support Package Installer. In order to use the Image
Acquisition Toolbox, you must install the adaptor that your camera uses. See “Image
Acquisition Support Packages for Hardware Adaptors” on page 4-2 for information
about installing the adaptors.
Toolbox Components
The toolbox uses components called hardware device adaptors to connect to devices
through their drivers. The toolbox includes adaptors that support devices produced by
several vendors of image acquisition equipment. In addition, the toolbox includes an
adaptor for generic Windows video acquisition devices.
The following figure shows these components and their relationship.