I want to use CameraSource to detect some visual code (which is not any kind of Barcode). I implements Detector and its detect(Frame frame) method. However, when I call frame.getBitmap() in the detect method, it always returns null. I know Frame has another method, getGrayscaleImageData(), but detecting the code needs color information. It seems that CameraSource only pass the gray-scale image data to its underlying detector.
So, is there a way to detect this code by CameraSource? Or should I abandon CameraSource and find another way?
In the current release, CameraSource actually does return the full color information for the image from getGrayscaleImageData. The leading bytes of what is returned is the grayscale layer of the image (the Y channel), but the bytes beyond that have the color information. The format details depend upon what image format you specified in setting up the CameraSource (the default is NV21 format).