[Robotics] Image extraction from camera

[Boris Duran]

Hi everybody,

I posted this message in Blender's forums first but now I realize that i 
should have asked the blendered roboticist first. Anyway, here it goes:
I would like to get the content of what my camera is watching, I guess 
an RGB matrix like in a real camera.
I'm modelling a small mobile robot with a camera on top of it, so it'll 
see the different colored boxes and balls in his world through its 
camera. Now, how do I read the content of that image in the camera.
In a real robot, the camera provides a matrix with let's say 320x240 
pixels for each color channel, usually 3 channels RGB or HSV. Once that 
matrix is acquired the rest of the computer vision stuff can be applied 
to control the robot.
Is it possible to get this kind of information in Blender's camera???

Any help, comments and suggestions on how to solve this problem will be 
greatly appreciated.

Boris
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