Transferring images
Intended audience: developers, Programming language: c++
Some optimized methods have been written to optimize image transfer between client and server using the attribute DevEncoded data type. All these methods have been merged in a class called EncodedAttribute. Within this class, you will find methods to:
Encode an image in a compressed way (JPEG) for images coded on 8 (gray scale), 24 or 32 bits
Encode a grey scale image coded on 8 or 16 bits
Encode a color image coded on 24 bits
Decode images coded on 8 or 16 bits (gray scale) and returned a 8 or bits grey scale image
Decode color images transmitted using a compressed format (JPEG) and returns a 32 bits RGB image
The following code snippets are examples of how these methods have to be used in a server and in a client. On the server side, creates an instance of the EncodedAttribute class within your object
1 class MyDevice::Tango::Device_4Impl
2 {
3 ...
4 Tango::EncodedAttribute jpeg;
5 ...
6 }
In the code of your device, use an encoding method of the EncodedAttribute class
1 void MyDevice::read_Encoded_attr_image(Tango::Attribute &att)
2 {
3 ....
4 jpeg.encode_jpeg_gray8(imageData,256,256,50.0);
5 att.set_value(&jpeg);
6 }
Line 4: Image encoding. The size of the image is 256 by 256. Each pixel is coded using 8 bits. The encoding quality is defined to 50 in a scale of 0 - 100. imageData is the pointer to the image data (pointer to unsigned char)
Line 5: Set the value of the attribute using a Attribute::set_value() method.
On the client side, the code is the following (without exception management)
1 ....
2 DeviceAttribute da;
3 EncodedAttribute att;
4 int width,height;
5 unsigned char *gray8;
6
7 da = device.read_attribute("Encoded_attr_image");
8 att.decode_gray8(&da,&width,&height,&gray8);
9 ....
10 delete [] gray8;
11 ...
The attribute named Encoded_attr_image is read at line7. The image is decoded at line 8 in a 8 bits gray scale format. The image data are stored in the buffer pointed to by gray8. The memory allocated by the image decoding at line 8 is returned to the system at line 10.