from io import BytesIO from typing import Optional import cv2 from PIL import Image class Camera: capture: cv2.VideoCapture def __init__(self): self.capture = cv2.VideoCapture(0) def get_image(self) -> Optional[bytes]: return_code, image = self.capture.read() if not return_code: return None image_rgb = cv2.cvtColor(image, cv2.COLOR_BGR2RGB) jpg = Image.fromarray(image_rgb) byte_stream = BytesIO() jpg.save(byte_stream, 'JPEG') return bytes(byte_stream.getbuffer())