LabVIEW 7 USB Camera

Has anyone tried to use the new USB functions in LabVIEW 7 to capture an image from a USB camera?

Hey JVS,
You can try and use the NI-IMAQ for USB Cameras driver to bring the images in, but this driver requires that the USB image device have DirectShow support.
If this does not work for you, then the hardware that you would like to use has to have some form of API that LabVIEW can communicate with. If it does, then you can just use a call library function node to call into the Pinacle software for it to return images to LabVIEW. Or you can try to use ActiveX to bring in the images. Last, you could check with the hardware manufacturer to see if they have any LabVIEW support or VI's that will allow their hardware to work with LV.
If the above doesn't work for you, then you might have to save the images to disk and then use the Vision Software to open the images from the files. Or you could display them by using native LabVIEW functions.
I hope this helps. Please let us know what your final solution is, so that others who would like to interact the same hardware with LabVIEW will be able to find a solution easily. Also, let me know if you have any further questions or concerns. Thanks, and have a great day.
Regards,
DJ L.

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