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OpenCV: Show what camera sees, capture if anything other than 'q' is pressed
require 'rubygems'
require 'opencv'
include OpenCV
camera = CvCapture.open(1)
window = GUI::Window.new("camera")
while true
camera.grab
window.show(img = camera.retrieve)
key = GUI.wait_key(33)
if key == 'q'.ord
break
else
open('foo.jpg', 'wb') do |f|
f.write img.encode('.jpg').pack("c*")
end
end
end
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BanzaiMan commented Apr 30, 2017

$ brew install opencv # or equivalent on other platforms
$ gem install opencv

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