USB device class for webcams and other video input devices
This article is about connecting cameras with USB. For connecting displays to cell phones through the Micro-USB port, see Mobile High-Definition Link.
See also: List of USB video class devices
The USB video device class (also USB video class or UVC) is a USB device class that describes devices capable of streaming video like webcams, digital camcorders, transcoders, analog video converters and still-image cameras.
The latest revision of the USB video class specification carries the version number 1.5 and was defined by the USB Implementers Forum in a set of documents describing both the basic protocol and the different payload formats.[1]
^USB Device Class Definition for Video Devices, Revision 1.5, June 2012.
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