From aeff09e0bcd5e44455497eea0e317f3c788c746f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sanjeev Kumar Bharadwaj
 <34452724+Quanta-of-solitude@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2021 23:25:53 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] camera release

In some hardware, the camera isn't released.
Especially when working with Jupyter notebook, Kernel is required to be restarted every time for a new run.
Adding stream.release() solves the above issue.
---
 imutils/video/webcamvideostream.py | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/imutils/video/webcamvideostream.py b/imutils/video/webcamvideostream.py
index dbe8751..249a6f3 100644
--- a/imutils/video/webcamvideostream.py
+++ b/imutils/video/webcamvideostream.py
@@ -40,3 +40,4 @@ def read(self):
 	def stop(self):
 		# indicate that the thread should be stopped
 		self.stopped = True
+		self.stream.release() #also release the camera