Can Anybody Please tell me how to capture an image in MATLAB after every pre-determined delay from the web-cam? Its really important please help.

Its for my final year project, I have to take an image from my USB webcam every 5 seconds and display it in MATLAB. The image is then to be processed in MATLAB . So any body knows a bit about it, please reply...

Answer 1

[David Sanchez]

you need to use the built-in function getsnapshot:

obj = videoinput('matrox', 1);

while 1                             % endless loos
   %Acquire and display a single frame of data.
   frame = getsnapshot(obj);        % take an image
   image(frame);                    % show the image
   pause(5);                        % wait for 5 seconds
end