BARCO's IRIS3 Technology Offers Plug and Play Capabilities for World's Most User-Friendly CRT Projectors.DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 11, 1998-- IRIS3 can be built into all current and future BARCO CRT projectors A CRT projector is a video projector that uses a small, high-brightness CRT (or picture tube) as the image generating element. The image is then focused and enlarged onto a screen using a lens kept in front of the CRT face. BARCO, a leading manufacturer of video and graphics display technology, has introduced the IRIS3 automatic alignment system for its CRT projectors. An improvement of BARCO's popular IRIS2 product, IRIS3 provides auto-geometry capability in addition to its highly effective automatic convergence system. IRIS3 can be built into all current and future BARCO CRT projectors. Using a compact monochrome Also called "mono." Refers to display screens that use one foreground and one background color; for example, black on white, white on black or green on black. The first terminals connected to mainframes and minicomputers were monochrome, and monochrome screens were widely used on early CCD camera See digital camera. and a state-of-the-art digital signal processing See DSP. Digital Signal Processing - (DSP) Computer manipulation of analog signals (commonly sound or image) which have been converted to digital form (sampled). system, IRIS3 converges the image on the screen by measuring the displacement of a red and blue projected line with reference to a green projected line in a given zone. If a deviation in the positions of red and blue relative to green is detected, the IRIS3 will instruct the projector to change its convergence settings. This process is repeated until all convergence errors are eliminated. IRIS3 also automatically adjusts the geometry of the image on the screen by measuring the displacement of a green projected line with respect to the reference source stored in the memory of the projector. Calculations for both convergence and geometry adjustments are based on the same digital logical processing algorithms. "With IRIS3, projector sources can be converged and geometrically aligned in less than 2.5 minutes at the touch of a button on the projector's infrared remote control See IR remote control. ," said Steven Barlow, product group manager, large screen displays, for BARCO, Inc. "In addition, we've made significant improvements in the sensitivity of the new IRIS3 that allows it to be much more effective in rear screen applications." By equipping its CRT projectors with IRIS3, BARCO introduces the most user-friendly CRT projectors in the world. Never before has the user been able to align the parameters of a CRT projector in such an easy cost-effective manner. The IRIS3 can be built into all current BARCO CRT (1) (C RunTime) See runtime library. (2) (Cathode Ray Tube) A vacuum tube used as a display screen in a computer monitor or TV. The viewing end of the tube is coated with phosphors, which emit light when struck by electrons. front and retro [Latin, Back; backward; behind.] A prefix used to designate a prior condition or time. projection systems, including the 708, 808s, 1280/1209s and 1609s series, as well as into all future CRT-based systems from BARCO. BARCO Background The BARCO Group, headquartered in Kuurne, Belgium, operates three major lines of business: BARCO Visualization, BARCO Automation and BARCO Graphics Barco Graphics was the graphics division of the Belgian Barco Group. It was the result of the 1989 merger of Digitised Information Systems Corporation (D.I.S.C.), Aesthedes and Barco's own "Creative Group". . Its U.S. subsidiary, BARCO, Inc., is based in Kennesaw, Ga., and consists of four divisions: BARCO Display Products Division, BARCO Graphics Division, BARCO Chromatics chro·mat·ics n. (used with a sing. verb) The scientific study of color. chro  ma·tist n. Division and BARCO Automation Division. BARCO Display Products Division supplies a full line of video, data and graphic projection systems and specialized direct view monitors. NOTE TO EDITORS: Photographs available upon request. CONTACT: BARCO Earlene Bentley, 770/218-3200 770/218-3250 (fax) or Crescent Communications Ann Lane, 404/287-2000, ext. 103 404/287-2001 (fax) alane@crescomm.com |
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