conversion to black and white works webcam .net

The numbers below the image are delays in milliseconds measured on my 2.8GHz PC with the webcam set to 640x480 pixels. The milliseconds show some interesting results. For example, the slowest step is the webcam image gathering. 100 ms means that you will get 10 frames per second. This is poor. Webcams are typically slow. You can make them faster on account of quality. A lower resolution makes the camera faster, but the image quality may become useless. Another surprise is why the conversion to black and white is so slow (12ms). On the other hand, what is expected to be slow is OCR and the solver. But those are surprisingly fast – only 7 ms. I will explain each step in detail and show how things could be improved. The source code function that invokes the above process is DoSomeImageProcessing().
 
 
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