Connecting an external viceo camera to a Windows Mobile device

[ledrocnoc]

I am working on a project that required that we use a video camera that is external to the phone. We are looking at USB cameras and I was wondering if anyone knew of any solution that would allow us to use the external USB connected camera instead of the build in cameras on most phones.

Thanks.

[Mr_Gee]

guess not, for the same reason as mentioned in the below tread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=400616

[l3v5y]

I am working on a project that required that we use a video camera that is external to the phone. We are looking at USB cameras and I was wondering if anyone knew of any solution that would allow us to use the external USB connected camera instead of the build in cameras on most phones.

Thanks.Are there SDIO cameras? Failing that, it might be possible to use a LAN based camera, and connect to it through WiFi...

[mr_deimos]

Yep, there are some SDIO cameras available
http://images.google.pl/images?q=sdio%20camera&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:pl:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&sa=N&tab=wi
Of course if the phone doesn't have a SD/MMC slot, only a miniSD one, it won't fit in. But i guess that wiring the camera to a miniSD-microSD adapter might work, since both these cards are essentially the same, and the only difference is the form factor.
There are also CF-based cameras, but i haven't seen a hone equipped with a CF slot for a while.

[l3v5y]

Ye, there are some SDIO cameras available
http://images.google.pl/images?q=sdio%20camera&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:pl:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&sa=N&tab=wi
There are also CF-based cameras, but i haven't seen a hone equied with a CF slot for a while.HTC Sedna has a CF slot as do many HP devices.

[surur]

I thought some-one wrote a USB camera driver for windows mobile?

http://www.windowsfordevices.com/news/NS7191593413.html

I expect you are going to need a certain amount of expertise to use it.

Surur

[l3v5y]

I thought some-one wrote a USB camera driver for windows mobile?

http://www.windowsfordevices.com/news/NS7191593413.html

I expect you are going to need a certain amount of expertise to use it.

Surur
Windows CE 5.0 USB Webcam
Although WM and WinCE use the same basic code, WinCE has USB host functionality in most implementations, WM does not.

[ledrocnoc]

Thanks for the input.

Here are follow up questions:

- Are there any devices running WM5 or 6 that implement (in hardware) USB Host?

- Assuming that a WM5/6 device with the right HW can be found (see question above), how big of a job would it be to develop a driver for an external USB camera (assuming I might already have the code for a Windows 2000 / XP / Vista one)?

Txs

[Christian72D]

Most of the FSC Loox devices have an USB-Host.
I have a Loox 720 and a Loox N560 with this function.

[mr_deimos]

Also the Toshiba G900 (and maybe also other Gx00 models) does have a host USB. But i have no idea about how hard would it be to get a webcam working on it.