An Inexpensive Color Image Sequence Acquisition System Using a Personal Computer

Kazuki Nakajima¹ and Hajime Hashimoto²

¹Department for Gerontechnology, National Institute for Longevity Sciences, 36-3, Gengo, Morioka, Ohbu, Aichi 474-8511, Japan
²Department of Electrical Engineering, Ube National College of Technology, Ube, Yamaguchi 755-8555, Japan

(Received October 21, 1998; Accepted January 8, 1999)

Keywords: Image Acquisition, Image Sequence, Color Image, Video Capture, Scientific Measurement

Abstract. A color image acquisition system for scientific measurement using an inexpensive standard personal computer is presented. The system we have developed keeps an accurate sampling interval and cuts a rectangular image from a full screen reducing the size of the image sequence. Users select a sampling interval, a number of images, an image size and a location of the rectangular image from a screen menu using mouse operations.