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Type

Identify 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

Character vector

Values

[ 'videoinput' | 'videosource' ] Defined at object creation time

Examples

vid = videoinput('winvideo',1)

vid.Type

ans =

videoinput

This example gets the type of a video source object.

src = getselectedsource(vid);
src.Type
ans =
 videosource

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