Kinect Class

The class provides access to Microsoft's Xbox Kinect controller.

Inheritance Hierarchy

SystemObject
Accord.Video.KinectKinect

Namespace: Accord.Video.Kinect
Assembly: Accord.Video.Kinect (in Accord.Video.Kinect.dll) Version: 3.8.0

Syntax

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public class Kinect : IDisposable

Public Class Kinect
	Implements IDisposable

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The Kinect type exposes the following members.

Properties

	Name	Description
	DeviceCount	Number of Kinect devices available in the system.
	DeviceID	ID of the opened Kinect device.

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Methods

	Name	Description
	Dispose	Dispose device freeing all associated unmanaged resources.
	Equals	Determines whether the specified object is equal to the current object. (Inherited from Object.)
	Finalize	Object finalizer/destructor makes sure unmanaged resource are freed if user did not call Dispose. (Overrides ObjectFinalize.)
	GetAccelerometerValues	Get accelerometer values for 3 axes.
	GetDepthCamera	Get Kinect's depth camera.
	GetDevice	Get initialized instance of the Kinect device.
	GetHashCode	Serves as the default hash function. (Inherited from Object.)
	GetType	Gets the Type of the current instance. (Inherited from Object.)
	GetVideoCamera	Get Kinect's video camera.
	MemberwiseClone	Creates a shallow copy of the current Object. (Inherited from Object.)
	SetLedColor	Set color of Kinect's LED.
	SetMotorTilt	Set motor's tilt value.
	ToString	Returns a string that represents the current object. (Inherited from Object.)

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Extension Methods

	Name	Description
	HasMethod	Checks whether an object implements a method with the given name. (Defined by ExtensionMethods.)
	IsEqual	Compares two objects for equality, performing an elementwise comparison if the elements are vectors or matrices. (Defined by Matrix.)
	To(Type)	Overloaded. Converts an object into another type, irrespective of whether the conversion can be done at compile time or not. This can be used to convert generic types to numeric types during runtime. (Defined by ExtensionMethods.)
	ToT	Overloaded. Converts an object into another type, irrespective of whether the conversion can be done at compile time or not. This can be used to convert generic types to numeric types during runtime. (Defined by ExtensionMethods.)

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Remarks

The class allows to manipulate Kinec device by changing its LED color, setting motor's tilt value and accessing its camera. See KinectVideoCamera and KinectDepthCamera classes, which provide access to actual video.

Note
In order to run correctly the class requires freenect.dll library to be put into solution's output folder. This can be found within the AForge.NET framework's distribution in Externals folder.

Sample usage:

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// get Kinect device
Kinect kinectDevice = Kinect.GetDevice( 0 );
// change LED color
kinectDevice.LedColor = LedColorOption.Yellow;
// set motor tilt angle to -10 degrees
kinectDevice.SetMotorTilt( -10 );
// get video camera
KinectVideoCamera videoCamera = kinectDevice.GetVideoCamera( );

// see example for video camera also

Reference

Accord.Video.Kinect Namespace