Image Acquisition Toolbox

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.
This section describes tasks related to establishing a connection between MATLAB and an image acquisition device.

Getting Hardware Information	Describes how to get the information the toolbox needs to connect to a specific image acquisition device
Creating Image Acquisition Objects	Describes how to create the objects that the Image Acquisition Toolbox uses to establish the connection between MATLAB and an image acquisition device
Configuring Image Acquisition Object Properties	Describes how to modify characteristics of the acquisition using properties of the image acquisition objects
Starting and Stopping a Video Input Object	Describes how to start and stop a video input object
Deleting Image Acquisition Objects	Describes how to delete the image acquisition objects you create
Saving and Loading Image Acquisition Objects	Describes how to save an image acquisition object so that it can be loaded into the MATLAB workspace at a later time

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