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authorNiklas Söderlund <niklas.soderlund@ragnatech.se>2018-12-20 15:18:38 +0100
committerNiklas Söderlund <niklas.soderlund@ragnatech.se>2018-12-31 00:57:58 +0100
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treef9c4bf48bf5a8103f26ff694c43d67ecb43e61d1 /src/libcamera/camera.cpp
parentdf7bd278a6c8cd0f5e956fb733a25379f3a71f9f (diff)
libcamera: Add Camera class
Provide a Camera class which represents our main interface to handling camera devices. This is a rework of Kieran's initial proposal and Laurent's documentation of the file changed to fit the device enumerators needs. Signed-off-by: Niklas Söderlund <niklas.soderlund@ragnatech.se> Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com> Reviewed-by: Jacopo Mondi <jacopo@jmondi.org>
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+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1-or-later */
+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2018, Google Inc.
+ *
+ * camera.cpp - Camera device
+ */
+
+#include <libcamera/camera.h>
+
+#include "log.h"
+
+/**
+ * \file camera.h
+ * \brief Camera device handling
+ *
+ * At the core of libcamera is the camera device, combining one image source
+ * with processing hardware able to provide one or multiple image streams. The
+ * Camera class represents a camera device.
+ *
+ * A camera device contains a single image source, and separate camera device
+ * instances relate to different image sources. For instance, a phone containing
+ * front and back image sensors will be modelled with two camera devices, one
+ * for each sensor. When multiple streams can be produced from the same image
+ * source, all those streams are guaranteed to be part of the same camera
+ * device.
+ *
+ * While not sharing image sources, separate camera devices can share other
+ * system resources, such as an ISP. For this reason camera device instances may
+ * not be fully independent, in which case usage restrictions may apply. For
+ * instance, a phone with a front and a back camera device may not allow usage
+ * of the two devices simultaneously.
+ */
+
+namespace libcamera {
+
+/**
+ * \class Camera
+ * \brief Camera device
+ *
+ * The Camera class models a camera capable of producing one or more image
+ * streams from a single image source. It provides the main interface to
+ * configuring and controlling the device, and capturing image streams. It is
+ * the central object exposed by libcamera.
+ */
+
+/**
+ * \brief Construct a named camera device
+ *
+ * \param[in] name The name to set on the camera device
+ *
+ * The caller is responsible for guaranteeing unicity of the camera
+ * device name.
+ */
+Camera::Camera(const std::string &name)
+ : ref_(1), name_(name)
+{
+}
+
+/**
+ * \brief Retrieve the name of the camera
+ *
+ * \return Name of the camera device
+ */
+const std::string &Camera::name() const
+{
+ return name_;
+}
+
+/**
+ * \brief Acquire a reference to the camera
+ */
+void Camera::get()
+{
+ ref_++;
+}
+
+/**
+ * \brief Release a reference to the camera
+ *
+ * When the last reference is released the camera device is deleted. Callers
+ * shall not access the camera device after calling this function.
+ */
+void Camera::put()
+{
+ if (--ref_ == 0)
+ delete this;
+}
+
+} /* namespace libcamera */