I currently am working on an interface that takes previously saved images and use them as a template to do some pattern matching and other vision algorithms with an image that was taken from a camera through a live feed. Before we had the program automated where our control system will automatically postion itself to get a current target as close as it possibly can to the template we are using, having it automated allowed us to not have to see the template itself. Now we want to design one so we can see the live image moving to the target position while at the same time be able to look at the template image just to verify we are at the same position. The rest of the program is just computing the difference in position of the template and the live target, this does not involve any need of seeing the template since we will be computing the deltas by reading the current position of our control system.
What i have tried so far is to allocate some memory for the image from the function in the utilities folder then wire it to the imaq read file (maybe it was the imaq open?) and then wire it to the image panel, the user will be able to choose the image by finding the file with the path control, is there something i am missing?
