Capturing images from webcam every 1s.

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nghia nguyen
nghia nguyen on 19 May 2011
Commented: saeeda saher on 24 Apr 2019
I have a question.I want to use webcam to localize my mobile robot.So I must capture an image every 1s to analyse.Can you tell me how can I do that.

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Soyeun Jung
Soyeun Jung on 7 Aug 2017
Hi Nghia,
You can use the pause() function in a for loop to capture the image every second. Here is an example:
w = webcam;
while true % run for indefinitely long time
img = w.snapshot;
imshow(img) % display the image
pause(1); % pause for one second
end
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saeeda saher
saeeda saher on 24 Apr 2019
how to save the snapshots in form of image in folder?

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