We recommend you specify the above-mentioned registry value using the BOS descriptor. A camera that exposes both sensor camera and color camera media types should use this value. This will make the camera available for applications looking for either sensor and color cameras. A camera that exposes only sensor camera media types should use this value.Ī value of 2 for SensorCameraMode, will register the device under KSCATEGORY_SENSOR_CAMERA & KSCATEGORY_VIDEO_CAMERA.

In addition to this specify a value of 1 for SkipCameraEnumeration to make the camera available to applications looking only for sensor cameras. The attribute SensorCameraMode takes a value 1 or 2.Ī value of 1, will register the device under KSCATEGORY_SENSOR_CAMERA. This categorization helps applications to select the camera that they want to work with.Ī UVC camera can specify its category preference through attributes, SensorCameraMode and SkipCameraEnumeration, in its BOS MS OS 2.0 Descriptor detailed in following sections.

A camera that supports both color and non-color format types should be registered under KSCATEGORY_VIDEO_CAMERA and KSCATEGORY_SENSOR_CAMERA. A camera that supports IR or Depth-only format types should be registered under KSCATEGORY_SENSOR_CAMERA. We recommend the camera firmware specify a value based on which the UVC driver would register the camera under one or both supported categories.Ī camera that supports color only format types should be registered under KSCATEGORY_VIDEO_CAMERA. The UVC driver supports both types of cameras. RGB or YUV cameras are categorized as color cameras and non-color cameras like gray scale, IR and Depth cameras are categorized as sensor cameras. One is a color camera and the other one is a non-color sensor camera. Windows supports two categories of cameras. Microsoft platform specific BOS device capability descriptor The camera that outputs non-color streams (for example, IR or Depth cameras) The camera that outputs color streams (for example, RGB or YUV cameras) USBVideo.sys driver that ships with the OS This document outlines how to expose certain capabilities of a UVC compliant camera to the applications through the inbox driver. This driver supports color and sensor type cameras.

Starting in Windows 10, an inbox USB Video Class (UVC) driver is provided for devices compliant with USB Video Class specification (versions 1.0 to 1.5).

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