`camera` – Support for camera input¶

The camera module contains classes to control the camera and take pictures.

Available on these boards

SPRESENSE

class camera.Camera¶

The class to control camera.

Usage:

import board
import sdioio
import storage
import camera

sd = sdioio.SDCard(
    clock=board.SDIO_CLOCK,
    command=board.SDIO_COMMAND,
    data=board.SDIO_DATA,
    frequency=25000000)
vfs = storage.VfsFat(sd)
storage.mount(vfs, '/sd')

cam = camera.Camera()

buffer = bytearray(512 * 1024)
file = open("/sd/image.jpg","wb")
size = cam.take_picture(buffer, width=1920, height=1080, format=camera.ImageFormat.JPG)
file.write(buffer, size)
file.close()

Initialize camera.

deinit() → None¶: De-initialize camera.

take_picture(buf: circuitpython_typing.WriteableBuffer, format: ImageFormat) → int¶

Take picture and save to buf in the given format. The size of the picture taken is width by height in pixels.

Returns: the number of bytes written into buf
Return type: int

class camera.ImageFormat¶

Image format

Enum-like class to define the image format.

JPG :ImageFormat¶: JPG format.

RGB565 :ImageFormat¶: RGB565 format.

camera – Support for camera input¶

`camera` – Support for camera input¶