Image Acquisition Toolbox

Type

Identify the type of image acquisition object

Description

The Type property identifies the type of image acquisition object. An image acquisition object can be either one of two types:

• Video input object
• Video source object

Characteristics

Access	Read only
Data type	String
Values	[ 'videoinput' | 'videosource' ] Defined at object creation time

Example

• vid = videoinput('winvideo',1)
  
  get(vid,'Type')
  
  ans =
  
  videoinput
  

This example gets the type of a video source object.

• src = getselectedsource(vid);
  get(src,'type')
  ans =
   videosource
  

See Also

Functions

getselectedsource, videoinput

TriggerType

UserData