AxisWebCamera

Image from Axis webcam

A concrete subclass of ImageSource that acquires images from a web camera built by Axis Communications (www.axis.com).

Methods

grab	Aquire and return the next image
size	Size of image
close	Close the image source
char	Convert the object parameters to human readable string

Axis web camera constructor

a = AxisWebCamera(url, options) is an AxisWebCamera object that acquires images from an Axis Communications (www.axis.com) web camera.

'uint8'	Return image with uint8 pixels (default)
'float'	Return image with float pixels
'double'	Return image with double precision pixels
'grey'	Return greyscale image
'gamma', G	Apply gamma correction with gamma=G
'scale', S	Subsample the image by S in both directions.
'resolution', S	Obtain an image of size S=[W H].

Notes:

The specified 'resolution' must match one that the camera is capable of, otherwise the result is not predictable.

Convert to string

A.char() is a string representing the state of the camera object in human readable form.

Close the image source

A.close() closes the connection to the web camera.

Acquire image from the camera

im = A.grab() is an image acquired from the web camera.

Some web cameras have a fixed picture taking interval, and this function will return the most recently captured image held in the camera.