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+import java.awt.Dimension;
+import java.awt.Transparency;
+import java.awt.color.ColorSpace;
+import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
+import java.awt.image.ComponentColorModel;
+import java.awt.image.ComponentSampleModel;
+import java.awt.image.DataBuffer;
+import java.awt.image.DataBufferByte;
+import java.awt.image.Raster;
+import java.awt.image.WritableRaster;
+import java.nio.BufferUnderflowException;
+import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
+import java.util.Collections;
+import java.util.LinkedHashSet;
+import java.util.Set;
+import java.util.concurrent.Exchanger;
+import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
+import java.util.concurrent.TimeoutException;
+import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicReference;
+
+import javax.swing.JFrame;
+
+import com.github.sarxos.webcam.Webcam;
+import com.github.sarxos.webcam.WebcamPanel;
+import com.github.sarxos.webcam.WebcamPanel.ImageSupplier;
+import com.github.sarxos.webcam.WebcamResolution;
+
+
+/**
+ * This example demonstrate how to implement exchange mechanism which will make
+ * {@link Webcam#getImageBytes()} to run in parallel without causing FPS drop.
+ *
+ * @author Bartosz Firyn (sarxos)
+ */
+public class ParallelGetImageBytesExample {
+
+	private static class ByteBufferExchanger extends Exchanger<ByteBuffer> implements AutoCloseable {
+
+		private final AsyncWebcamBuffer owner;
+
+		public ByteBufferExchanger(final AsyncWebcamBuffer owner) {
+			this.owner = owner;
+		}
+
+		/**
+		 * Await for new {@link ByteBuffer} to be ready.
+		 */
+		public void await() {
+			awaitAndGet();
+		}
+
+		/**
+		 * Await for new {@link ByteBuffer} to be available and return it.
+		 *
+		 * @return The {@link ByteBuffer}
+		 */
+		public ByteBuffer awaitAndGet() {
+			try {
+				return exchange(null);
+			} catch (InterruptedException e) {
+				throw new IllegalStateException(e);
+			}
+		}
+
+		/**
+		 * To be used only from {@link AsyncWebcamBuffer}. Please do not invoke this method from the
+		 * other classes.
+		 *
+		 * @param bb the {@link ByteBuffer} to exchange
+		 */
+		public void ready(ByteBuffer bb) {
+			try {
+				exchange(bb, 0, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
+			} catch (InterruptedException | TimeoutException e) {
+				throw new IllegalStateException(e);
+			}
+		}
+
+		@Override
+		public void close() {
+			owner.dispose(this);
+		}
+	}
+
+	private static class AsyncWebcamBuffer extends Thread {
+
+		private final Webcam webcam;
+		private AtomicReference<ByteBuffer> buffer = new AtomicReference<ByteBuffer>();
+		private Set<ByteBufferExchanger> exchangers = Collections.synchronizedSet(new LinkedHashSet<ByteBufferExchanger>());
+		private final int length;
+
+		public AsyncWebcamBuffer(Webcam webcam) {
+			this.webcam = webcam;
+			this.length = getLength(webcam.getViewSize());
+			this.setDaemon(true);
+			this.start();
+		}
+
+		public int getLength(Dimension size) {
+			return size.width * size.height * 3;
+		}
+
+		public int length() {
+			return length;
+		}
+
+		public Webcam getWebcam() {
+			return webcam;
+		}
+
+		@Override
+		public void run() {
+			while (webcam.isOpen()) {
+
+				// get buffer from webcam (this is direct byte buffer located in off-heap memory)
+
+				final ByteBuffer bb = webcam.getImageBytes();
+				bb.rewind();
+
+				buffer.set(bb);
+
+				// notify all exchangers
+
+				for (ByteBufferExchanger exchanger : exchangers) {
+					exchanger.ready(bb);
+				}
+			}
+		}
+
+		/**
+		 * Be careful when using this reference! It's non synchronized so you have to take special
+		 * care to synchronize and maintain position in buffer to avoid
+		 * {@link BufferUnderflowException}.
+		 *
+		 * @return Non synchronized {@link ByteBuffer}
+		 */
+		public ByteBuffer getByteBuffer() {
+			return buffer.get();
+		}
+
+		/**
+		 * @return New {@link ByteBufferExchanger}
+		 */
+		public ByteBufferExchanger exchanger() {
+			final ByteBufferExchanger exchanger = new ByteBufferExchanger(this);
+			exchangers.add(exchanger);
+			return exchanger;
+		}
+
+		public void dispose(ByteBufferExchanger exchanger) {
+			exchangers.remove(exchanger);
+		}
+
+		/**
+		 * Rewrite {@link ByteBuffer} data to the provided byte[] array.
+		 *
+		 * @param bytes the byte[] array to rewrite {@link ByteBuffer} into
+		 */
+		public void read(byte[] bytes) {
+			final ByteBuffer buffer = getByteBuffer();
+			// all operations on buffer need to be synchronized
+			synchronized (buffer) {
+				buffer.rewind();
+				buffer.get(bytes);
+				buffer.rewind();
+			}
+		}
+
+		/**
+		 * Rewrite {@link ByteBuffer} to newly created byte[] array and return it.
+		 *
+		 * @return Newly created byte[] array with data from {@link ByteBuffer}
+		 */
+		public byte[] read() {
+			final byte[] bytes = new byte[length];
+			final ByteBuffer buffer = getByteBuffer();
+			// all operations on buffer need to be synchronized
+			synchronized (buffer) {
+				buffer.rewind();
+				buffer.get(bytes);
+				buffer.rewind();
+			}
+			return bytes;
+		}
+
+		public boolean isReady() {
+			return buffer.get() != null;
+		}
+	}
+
+	private static class WebcamPanelImageSupplier implements ImageSupplier {
+
+		private final int[] imageOffset = new int[] { 0 };
+		private final int[] bandOffsets = new int[] { 0, 1, 2 };
+		private final int[] bits = { 8, 8, 8 };
+		private final int dataType = DataBuffer.TYPE_BYTE;
+		private final Dimension size;
+		private final AsyncWebcamBuffer buffer;
+		private final ComponentSampleModel sampleModel;
+		private final ColorSpace colorSpace;
+		private final ComponentColorModel colorModel;
+
+		public WebcamPanelImageSupplier(AsyncWebcamBuffer buffer) {
+			this.buffer = buffer;
+			this.size = buffer.getWebcam().getViewSize();
+			this.sampleModel = new ComponentSampleModel(dataType, size.width, size.height, 3, size.width * 3, bandOffsets);
+			this.colorSpace = ColorSpace.getInstance(ColorSpace.CS_sRGB);
+			this.colorModel = new ComponentColorModel(colorSpace, bits, false, false, Transparency.OPAQUE, dataType);
+		}
+
+		@Override
+		public BufferedImage get() {
+
+			while (!buffer.isReady()) {
+				return null;
+			}
+
+			final byte[] bytes = new byte[size.width * size.height * 3];
+			final byte[][] data = new byte[][] { bytes };
+
+			buffer.read(bytes);
+
+			final DataBufferByte dataBuffer = new DataBufferByte(data, bytes.length, imageOffset);
+			final WritableRaster raster = Raster.createWritableRaster(sampleModel, dataBuffer, null);
+			final BufferedImage image = new BufferedImage(colorModel, raster, false, null);
+
+			return image;
+		}
+	}
+
+	public static void main(String[] args) throws InterruptedException {
+
+		final Dimension size = WebcamResolution.VGA.getSize();
+
+		final Webcam webcam = Webcam.getDefault();
+		webcam.setViewSize(size);
+		webcam.open();
+
+		final AsyncWebcamBuffer buffer = new AsyncWebcamBuffer(webcam);
+		final ImageSupplier supplier = new WebcamPanelImageSupplier(buffer);
+
+		final WebcamPanel panel = new WebcamPanel(webcam, size, true, supplier);
+		panel.setFPSDisplayed(true);
+		panel.setDisplayDebugInfo(true);
+		panel.setImageSizeDisplayed(true);
+		panel.setMirrored(true);
+
+		final JFrame window = new JFrame("Test webcam panel");
+		window.add(panel);
+		window.setResizable(true);
+		window.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
+		window.pack();
+		window.setVisible(true);
+
+		// this thread will get underlying ByteBuffer and perform synchronized op to
+		// get rewrite it into bytes[] array
+
+		final Thread t1 = new Thread() {
+
+			@Override
+			public void run() {
+
+				// make sure to close exchanger because you will end up with memory leak
+
+				try (final ByteBufferExchanger exchanger = buffer.exchanger()) {
+
+					while (webcam.isOpen()) {
+
+						long t1 = System.currentTimeMillis();
+						final ByteBuffer bb = exchanger.awaitAndGet();
+						long t2 = System.currentTimeMillis();
+
+						System.out.println(getName() + " : " + 1000 / (t2 - t1 + 1));
+
+						final byte[] bytes = new byte[buffer.length];
+
+						// make sure to synchronize or you will end up
+
+						synchronized (bb) {
+							bb.rewind();
+							bb.get(bytes);
+							bb.rewind();
+						}
+
+						// do processing on bytes[] array
+					}
+				}
+			}
+		};
+		t1.start();
+
+		// this thread will await for underlying ByteBuffer to be ready and perform
+		// synchronized op to get rewrite it into new bytes[] array
+
+		final Thread t2 = new Thread() {
+
+			@Override
+			public void run() {
+
+				try (final ByteBufferExchanger exchanger = buffer.exchanger()) {
+					while (webcam.isOpen()) {
+
+						long t1 = System.currentTimeMillis();
+						exchanger.await();
+						long t2 = System.currentTimeMillis();
+
+						System.out.println(getName() + " : " + 1000 / (t2 - t1 + 1));
+
+						final byte[] bytes = buffer.read();
+
+						// do processing on bytes[] array
+					}
+				}
+			}
+		};
+		t2.start();
+
+		// this thread will await for underlying ByteBuffer to be ready and perform
+		// synchronized op to get rewrite it into pre-created bytes[] array
+
+		final Thread t3 = new Thread() {
+
+			@Override
+			public void run() {
+
+				try (final ByteBufferExchanger exchanger = buffer.exchanger()) {
+
+					final byte[] bytes = new byte[buffer.length()];
+
+					while (webcam.isOpen()) {
+
+						long t1 = System.currentTimeMillis();
+						exchanger.await();
+						long t2 = System.currentTimeMillis();
+
+						System.out.println(getName() + " : " + 1000 / (t2 - t1 + 1));
+
+						buffer.read(bytes);
+
+						// do processing on bytes[] array
+					}
+				}
+			}
+		};
+		t3.start();
+	}
+}