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Background of UINavigationController view turns white

My iPhone application uses the camera to take pictures, which I suspect is somewhat memory-intensive. The app uses a custom background image for the view of its UINavigationController, and after taking a few pictures, the background goes all white. Any ideas on what I can do to stop this? ...

Vectors rotations 3D camera tiliting

Hopefully easy answer, but I cannot get it. I have a 3D render engine I have written. I have the camera position, the lookat position and the up vector. I want to be able to "tilt" the camera left, right, up and down. Like a camera on a fixed tripod that you can grab the handle and tilt it it up, down, left right etc. The maths stum...

camera overlay view - just for preview?

I've noticed that in OS 3.1 you can add an overlay view to the image picker with cameraOverlayView However, I've also noticed that adding a view via this method also displays the view for the entire time the UIImagePicker is displayed, when I only want to show it during the preview stage. Is there a way to make this only happen duri...

Augmented Reality iPhone Tutorial

Can any body provide me with a good tutorial on Augmented Reality iPhone Tutorial for iPhone 3.1.And also the Xcode sample application ...

HTC camera initialization disables the phone hardware button?

Hi there, I have the following problem: I implement an application that uses DirectShow to capture video and audio data. On HTC phones (Touch Pro 2, Touch Diamond 2, Touch HD) it seems, after initializing the camera via DirectShow (same code is used as CameraCapture and CameraControl sample applications) the application will not react to...

Capturing camera framebuffer on iPhone 3G (not S)?

I've downloaded a free application from App Store (very nice application for instance) called ReadTheQRCode and it dont asks you to take the picture to decode the QRCode, my point is, is the application using the framebuffer of the camera on iPhone 3G or it is taking several pictures at a given time, ommiting the iris animation, the edit...

Freeze or pause iPhone camera image

On iPhone's built-in Camera application (OS 3.1), touching the shutter button shows an iris animation, then displays the image that was taken for a second or so before animating it away. Is anyone aware of a simple way to get this "brief pause" activity? Or do I have to resort to manually adding the image as part of my custom cameraOve...

Android Camera Intent Geo-Tagging

We are utilizing the Intent.ACTION_IMAGE_CAPTURE for taking a new picture from within our app. However, we would like to force geo-tagging of the pictures. Is there a way to set the intent to do this or does it rely solely on the default Camera app's setting to "Store Location"? (Also, it would be nice if this worked for the ACTION_VIDE...

Capturing real time images from a network camera

Hi What is the best way to capture streamed MJPEG from a network IP camera? I'd like to get frames and process them, using c++ (or python extended with c++). Is OpenCV my best option? Thanks Simon ...

Extracting iPhone Exposure Setting

It seems that a similar question has been asked before, http://stackoverflow.com/questions/373357/obtaining-iphone-photo-exposure-information I wondering with the new iPhone camera, if there is any way to extract exposure data from the camera? it seems that it is able to sample different exposures based on where you focus, but I have yet...

Question regarding core data and the camera.

So I am working on an app that uses core data to store attributes of objects that the user can set. I have primarily been focusing on the first part, which was setting everything up on the core data side, and now I am ready to move on to the next part which deals with the camera. I want to be able to add a city, or other geographical loc...

self timer properties

Is is it possible to tell if a picture from a digital camera was taken with the self timer by looking at the picture properties? ...

Parent View issues with UIImagePickerControllerSourceTypeCamera

I have an odd problem with UIImagePickerControllerSourceTypeCamera. My application gives the choice to select a pic from the gallery, or take a photo with the camera. If I choose the gallery, I pick a photo and return to my view, no issues. However, when using UIImagePickerControllerSourceTypeCamera, it appears to do something odd with ...

WPF 3D Camera Animations

Hey guys, I have a double property called cameraAngle which is tied to a rotationtransformation, which is applied to the camera. I have series of 3d tiles with pictures on them (think cooliris), when i click the left key down i want my camera angle to go from 0 - 45 degrees. I know I want to use something like a doubleAnimation, but my...

Select area on camera view on iphone

Hello! I am really new to iphone programming and I am trying to build an application that uses camera live view to select a rectangle by touch events. I want to store the pixels in that rectangle in a pointer. Can anyone help me out with this code? Thank you! ...

Android SDK Camera API Demo Crashes

The Android SDK has an API demo for using the preview of the camera. However, this gives me a runtime exception in the emulator. I'm running with Eclipse on a Mac with 10.6 Here's the link where I grabbed the code: http://developer.android.com/resources/samples/ApiDemos/src/com/example/android/apis/graphics/CameraPreview.html ...

Displaying UImage on the iPhone

This is a very beginner problem. I'm trying to display an image taken with the camera, but when I display the image in a UIImageView the image is blown up. For instance, if I take a picture of a persons face, when I display the image, it will be blown up so much that it's pixelated and all I see is a portion of a nose (or whatever). What...

Camera RS232 Protocols

I am looking for information on camera RS232/RS485 protocols. The camera I have lists its supported protocols as: Pelco D Pelco P Fastrax Command I don't think that Pelco has the features I need but I can't find any information on the last two. Pelco only appears to allow differential changing of zoom and focus (commands to move in/o...

how to know if the user's camera is broadcasting (he could have pressed deny instead of accept, or his camera might be turned off)

usually i do Camera.getCamera but when this method is called the user is prompted with a dialog box where he can choose to allow or to deny the application access to the camera, or he could not have a camera how can the application now whether the camera is broadcasting ? ...

how to get a list of all cameras of the user

I want to get the list of all user cameras so that he could choose from a dropdown from which camera to broadcast ...