User`s guide

Toolbox Components Overview
2-5
customers will need to purchase both products to use the Image Acquisition Toolbox
product.
If you have any questions, please contact MathWorks customer service.
The Image Acquisition Tool (GUI)
The functionality of the Image Acquisition Toolbox software is available in a desktop
application. You connect directly to your hardware in the tool and can then set
acquisition parameters, and preview and acquire image data. You can log the data to
MATLAB in several formats, and also generate an AVI file, right from the tool.
To open the tool, type imaqtool at the MATLAB command line, or select Image
Acquisition on the Apps tab in MATLAB. The tool has extensive Help in the desktop.
As you click in different panes of the user interface, the relevant Help appears in the
Image Acquisition Tool Help pane.
Most of the User's Guide describes performing tasks using the toolbox via the MATLAB
command line. To learn how to use the desktop tool, see “Getting Started with the Image
Acquisition Tool” on page 3-5.
Supported Devices
The Image Acquisition Toolbox software includes adaptors that provide support for
several vendors of professional grade image acquisition equipment, devices that support
the IIDC 1394-based Digital Camera Specification (DCAM), and devices that provide
Windows Driver Model (WDM) or Video for Windows (VFW) drivers, such as USB and
IEEE
®
1394 (FireWire, i.LINK
®
) Web cameras, Digital video (DV) camcorders, and
TV tuner cards. For the latest information about supported hardware, visit the Image
Acquisition Toolbox product page at the MathWorks Web site (www.mathworks.com/
products/imaq).
The DCAM specification, developed by the 1394 Trade Association, describes a generic
interface for exchanging data with IEEE 1394 (FireWire) digital cameras that is often
used in scientific applications. The toolbox's DCAM adaptor supports Format 7, also
known as partial scan mode. The toolbox uses the prefix F7_ to identify Format 7 video
format names.