This document introduces you to the Onboard Ecam API.
The Onboard Camera provides functionality to control a digital camera and to request and receive specific image data from it. Still or video images may be captured. A camera may be controlled with its output media going into a non-Symbian platform sink (for example, into hardware), or it may be controlled with output going into the Symbian platform.
The API defines basic common operations, but is also extensible to allow for proprietary properties.
Onboard Ecam API Library Details
The DLL that provides the functionality and the library to which your code must link is identified below.
The Onboard Camera provides images to clients. A client may be an application with image requirements, or the Multimedia Framework. Clients have specific priorities and may pre-empt others in their interactions with the camera.
Licensees and partners implement the camera functionality for the camera hardware on their phone. All cameras are ECom plug-ins sub-classed from the
When a new camera object is required, the ECam library requests a camera plug-in from the ECom framework. When more than one ROM based plug-ins have been registered on the platform, the one with the highest version defined in its resource file is selected.
Client Applications can use the onboard camera function for a number of tasks, including:
Controlling camera power, using the view finder, making basic camera image settings, capturing a still image, capturing video, making advanced settings, getting snapshots, getting image histograms, using image overlays, using preset camera settings, image processing on the camera.
The key classes that make up the Onboard Camera are as follows:
It provides the base class for camera devices. This is the interface that the client application uses to communicate with the camera. It provides all the functions necessary to control, and acquire images from, the camera.
It is an observer class which permits access to picture data as descriptors, bitmaps or chunks. It defines an event-handling interface that is called when events are generated from use of the camera functions, or from external sources such as the camera being plugged or unplugged.
It provides information about the camera. This includes: the version number and name of camera hardware, camera orientation, whether the camera supports still image capture and so on.
It is the buffer class used by
It is a simple event class containing a UID to identify the event and a status code. It is passed to
Use a derived version of
It provides domain specific get and set methods for well known camera hardware settings that relate directly to the image acquisition phase for both still images and video.
It associates a single command with setting of several camera parameters to specific values (and ranges). The class allows clients without knowledge of the camera specifics to achieve comparable results for different cameras.
It is used to perform image processing operations on still images, video, viewfinder (both client and direct). These include brightness, contrast, gamma, hue, sharpness and saturation adjustments on the camera. The client is also able to perform simple image transformations like cropping, rotation, mirroring, scaling, noise reduction and glare reduction.
It allows the client to overlay an image onto the view finder, snapshots, still images, and video.
This class is deprecated, so use
It allows the client to request snapshot data in a specified image format for both still images and video. Snapshot object can be created specifically for still images and video APIs.
It provides support for multiple client View Finder.
It allows to control image operations or its settings prior to image capture.
It captures the image and controls the overall capture.
It retrieves the image data from individual images and also controls the captured images individually.
It controls the operations related to video capture.
The class diagram of CCamera is shown below:
The clients can use CCamera function to control and acquire image data from the camera.
This document introduces you to the Onboard Ecam API.
The Onboard Camera provides functionality to control a digital camera and to request and receive specific image data from it. Still or video images may be captured. A camera may be controlled with its output media going into a non-Symbian platform sink (for example, into hardware), or it may be controlled with output going into the Symbian platform.
The API defines basic common operations, but is also extensible to allow for proprietary properties.
Onboard Ecam API Library Details
The DLL that provides the functionality and the library to which your code must link is identified below.
The Onboard Camera provides images to clients. A client may be an application with image requirements, or the Multimedia Framework. Clients have specific priorities and may pre-empt others in their interactions with the camera.
Licensees and partners implement the camera functionality for the camera hardware on their phone. All cameras are ECom plug-ins sub-classed from the
When a new camera object is required, the ECam library requests a camera plug-in from the ECom framework. When more than one ROM based plug-ins have been registered on the platform, the one with the highest version defined in its resource file is selected.
Client Applications can use the onboard camera function for a number of tasks, including:
Controlling camera power, using the view finder, making basic camera image settings, capturing a still image, capturing video, making advanced settings, getting snapshots, getting image histograms, using image overlays, using preset camera settings, image processing on the camera.
The key classes that make up the Onboard Camera are as follows:
It provides the base class for camera devices. This is the interface that the client application uses to communicate with the camera. It provides all the functions necessary to control, and acquire images from, the camera.
It is an observer class which permits access to picture data as descriptors, bitmaps or chunks. It defines an event-handling interface that is called when events are generated from use of the camera functions, or from external sources such as the camera being plugged or unplugged.
It provides information about the camera. This includes: the version number and name of camera hardware, camera orientation, whether the camera supports still image capture and so on.
It is the buffer class used by
It is a simple event class containing a UID to identify the event and a status code. It is passed to
Use a derived version of
It provides domain specific get and set methods for well known camera hardware settings that relate directly to the image acquisition phase for both still images and video.
It associates a single command with setting of several camera parameters to specific values (and ranges). The class allows clients without knowledge of the camera specifics to achieve comparable results for different cameras.
It is used to perform image processing operations on still images, video, viewfinder (both client and direct). These include brightness, contrast, gamma, hue, sharpness and saturation adjustments on the camera. The client is also able to perform simple image transformations like cropping, rotation, mirroring, scaling, noise reduction and glare reduction.
It allows the client to overlay an image onto the view finder, snapshots, still images, and video.
This class is deprecated, so use
It allows the client to request snapshot data in a specified image format for both still images and video. Snapshot object can be created specifically for still images and video APIs.
It provides support for multiple client View Finder.
It allows to control image operations or its settings prior to image capture.
It captures the image and controls the overall capture.
It retrieves the image data from individual images and also controls the captured images individually.
It controls the operations related to video capture.
The class diagram of CCamera is shown below:
The clients can use CCamera function to control and acquire image data from the camera.