closePreview

Close webcam preview window

Add-On Required: This feature requires the MATLAB Support Package for USB Webcams add-on.

Syntax

closePreview(cam)

Description

closePreview(cam) closes the webcam preview window for the webcam object cam. You can close the preview at any time using the closePreview function. If you do not explicitly close the preview, it closes when you clear the webcam object.

Examples

Close Webcam Preview

You can open or close the webcam preview window any time after creating the webcam object.

Find the name of your camera using the webcamlist function to ensure that MATLAB® is discovering your camera(s).

webcamlist

ans = 2×1 cell array
    {'Logitech Webcam 250'          }
    {'Microsoft® LifeCam Cinema(TM)'}

Use the webcam function with the name of the camera as the input argument to create the object and connect it to the camera with that name. You can use the exact name from the output of webcamlist, which is 'Logitech Webcam 250' in this example. Or you can also use a shortened version of the name, for example, the brand of the camera, which in this case is 'Logitech'. Use cam as the name of the object.

cam = webcam('Logitech');

It creates the object and connects it to the Logitech® webcam.

Preview the image from the webcam.

preview(cam)

The preview window opens and displays live video stream from your camera. The preview dynamically updates, so if you change a property while previewing, the image changes to reflect the property change.

Close the preview.

closePreview(cam)

The preview window closes.

After you preview the image, the next steps are optionally changing any properties you need to set, and then acquiring images using the snapshot function. For more information on these steps, see the topics listed below.

Input Arguments

cam — webcam hardware connection

webcam object

Webcam hardware connection created using webcam, specified as a webcam object.

Version History

Introduced in R2014a