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Cameras and Mobile Sensing

Acquire data from USB webcams, IP cameras, and phone sensors

MATLAB^® supports the following hardware when you install the associated support package.

Support Package	Vendor	Earliest Release Available	Last Release Available
USB Webcams	Multiple vendors (UVC-compliant webcams)	R2014a	Current
IP Cameras	Multiple vendors (IP cameras that support MJPEG over HTTP/RTSP streams or that support H.264 over RTSP streams)	R2014a	Current
Android^® Sensors	Multiple vendors	R2020b	Current
Apple iOS Sensors	Apple	R2020b	Current

For a complete list of supported hardware, see Hardware Support.

Functions

Mobile Device Sensors

Connection and Information

`mobiledev`	Create `mobiledev` object to acquire data from mobile device sensors
`mobiledevlist`	List of mobile devices with accessible sensor data

Image and Audio

`readAudio`	Read collected audio data from mobile device
`camera`	Connection to camera on mobile device
`snapshot`	Acquire single image frame from mobile device camera

Position and Motion

`accellog`	Return logged acceleration data from mobile device sensor
`angvellog`	Return logged angular velocity data from mobile device sensor
`magfieldlog`	Return logged magnetic field data from mobile device sensor
`orientlog`	Return logged orientation data from mobile device sensor
`poslog`	Return logged position data from mobile device sensor
`discardlogs`	Discard all logged data from mobile device sensors
`readMobileSensorData`	Import collected data file from mobile device via USB connection