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Imaging Device and Webcam

last modified by Victor Zhang

on 00:20, 22/07/2020

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As the recent need for remote learning, trying to setup stream hardware

ITS has Doc Cam hardware however the driver they provide here: https://www.elmoeurope.com/index.php/en/download-service/software installs the device as "Imaging devices" which is somehow different from "Cameras" ( from device manager)

TWAIN is also used by scanner so understand why it does make sense for Chat apps not supporting it

But why do real-time doc cam register as TWAIN instead of Cameras

It doesn't provide better quality

Speculations:

YUV format?

FPS?

Irregular resolution?

PS Eye driver written by this company https://codelaboratories.com/products/eye/driver/

Archive (link : https://archive.org/download/CLEyeDriver5.3.0.0341Emuline/CL-Eye-Driver-5.3.0.0341-Emuline.exe)[download alt]

Also registers as "Imaging devices" thus meaning can't be used by most of the windows apps

Making a TWAIN to Camera bridge

Does it worth the effort?

As newer devices(even doc cams) supports UVC driver

If as a hobby project, what's the effort

Device driver

Bridging service

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