Re: Creating a V4L driver for a USB camera

[Erik de Castro Lopo <erik@bcode.com>]

On Thu, 4 Jun 2009 11:28:38 +1000
Theodore Kilgore <kilgota@banach.math.auburn.edu> wrote:

> If this is the case, then it ought not to be terribly difficult to write a 
> basic driver. If you wanted still camera support, with which I have a bit 
> more experience than with streaming support,

Yep, only interested in still images ATM.

> Of course, I said above "basic" driver. That does not include things like 
> color balance, contrast, or brightness controls. Such would probably take 
> a little bit longer.

Als need contol over things like this. We have pretty good control
over the lighting the camera works under so we tweak contrast/brightness/
whatever in the camera to provide the bext possible image to the image
processing.

Cheers,
Erik
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