Cradle and ActivEye Bring Video Content Analysis Software to Embedded Platforms for Powerful Intelligent Video Surveillance Applications.SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- Cradle Technologies --Active Alert(TM) software delivers full video content analysis to vastly increase video surveillance capabilities --Multiprocessor DSP (1) (Digital Signal Processor) A special-purpose CPU used for digital signal processing applications (see definition #2 below). It provides ultra-fast instruction sequences, such as shift and add, and multiply and add, which are commonly used in math-intensive chip supports customer-defined security features Cradle Technologies, a fabless semiconductor company A fabless semiconductor company specializes in the design and sale of hardware devices implemented on semiconductor chips. It achieves an advantage by outsourcing the fabrication of the devices to a specialized semiconductor manufacturer called a semiconductor foundry or "fab. providing multiprocessor DSPs (MDSPs) for video and imaging systems, and ActivEye(R), a leading provider of video content analysis software, today announced an agreement to port ActivEye's Active Alert(TM) Intelligent Video Content Analysis software to Cradle's CT3600 MDSP MDSP Maryland State Police MDSP Meter Data Service Provider MDSP Mobile Device Synchronization Protocol MDSP Multirate Digital Signal Processing MDSP Main Digital Signal Processor MDSP Mobile Data Synchronization Protocol family. The current video surveillance market is experiencing two important trends: the increasing adoption rate of intelligent video in security equipment and the shift of intelligent video installations from costly PC-based solutions to highly integrated embedded platforms even down to the camera level. The CT3600, with its scalable high performance and programmability features, simplifies customer deployment of proprietary intelligent video algorithms, thus enabling differentiation among security equipment vendors. The CT3600 product family integrates up to sixteen SIMD (Single Instruction stream Multiple Data stream) A computer that performs one operation on multiple sets of data. It is typically used to add or multiply eight or more sets of numbers at the same time for multimedia encoding and rendering as well as scientific 32-bit DSP engines, eight general-purpose CPUs, 144 programmable I/O (Input/Output) The transfer of data between the CPU and a peripheral device. Every transfer is an output from one device and an input to another. See PC input/output. I/O - Input/Output pins and a three-tiered memory hierarchy The levels of memory in a computer. From fastest to slowest speed, they are: 1. CPU registers 2. L1 cache 3. L2 cache 4. Main memory 5. Virtual memory 6. Disk system to accelerate and integrate multimedia infrastructure processing. The CT3600 family delivers new price/performance points for the rapidly expanding video surveillance market including applications such as IP cameras and streamers Streamers is a play by David Rabe. The last in his Vietnam War trilogy that began with The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel and Sticks and Bones , network video recorders (NVRs) and multi-channel DVRs. This allows video-surveillance system manufacturers to take sophisticated software-based intelligent video solutions running on expensive PCs and port them to a DSP-based embedded platform, such as the CT3600, resulting in significant cost savings. With the CT3616, up to 16 channels of intelligent video can be delivered on a single embedded platform. Active Alert's industry leading intelligent video software distinguishes between humans, automobiles, and environmental backgrounds. It automatically detects, classifies, timestamps, and alerts on behaviors of multiple people and objects simultaneously as they move through a scene. Active Alert reports more than 35 separate suspicious events or behaviors the user considers a potential threat; enables instantaneous incident retrieval for review by security professionals; and offers fast data mining capabilities, enabling end users to spot trends and modify operations to maximize security, increase safety and optimize operational efficiency. The companies plan to offer integrated intelligent video and encoder combinations using H.264, MPEG-4, and MJPEG MJPEG Motion Joint Photographic Experts Group formats, as well as high channel density intelligent video accelerator solutions. "The cooperative efforts of Cradle and ActivEye to bring highly intelligent video software to our MDSP platform offer benefits previously unavailable to video-surveillance equipment manufacturers," said Arthur Chang, Cradle's President and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . "The unprecedented compute power of the CT3600 family supports ActivEye's powerful video-analysis software along with video encoding algorithms and the other highly complex computational tasks needed for leading-edge video surveillance equipment." "By porting our Active Alert software to Cradle's CT3600 family, we can take advantage of its very high performance and excellent scalability to address camera as well as digital video recorder See DVR. system tasks at various price/performance levels. We can therefore offer our customers an automated, highly intelligent video-surveillance platform, unprecedented in the market until now," said Carolyn Ramsey, President and CEO of ActivEye. "Combining analytical intelligence with video processing in a single system delivers the best in class, most powerful toolset for rapid first response and decision making for our customers' critical surveillance needs." About Cradle Technologies Cradle is a fabless semiconductor company providing the best price/performance, most flexible and most scalable DSP solutions for real-time multimedia applications. Cradle's multiprocessor DSP architecture innovation delivers high-performance scalable DSP processing with the flexibility, time-to-market and product differentiation Product Differentiation A source of competitive advantage that depends on producing some item that is regarded to have unique and valuable characteristics. benefits of processor-based programmable platforms. Coupled with a Rapid Development System and suite of application software functions, Cradle provides OEMs with all the building blocks necessary to enable flexible yet high-performance DSP designs. Cradle's corporate headquarters are located in Sunnyvale, California. For more information call 408-636-5000 or visit www.cradle.com. About ActivEye ActivEye is a leading provider of real-time video analysis tools. ActivEye's corporate operations are headquartered in Briarcliff Manor, New York Briarcliff Manor is a village in Westchester County in the state of New York. It is shared between the towns of Mount Pleasant and Ossining, and lies entirely within the ZIP code of 10510. with sales offices in San Francisco, California “San Francisco” redirects here. For other uses, see San Francisco (disambiguation). The City and County of San Francisco (EN IPA: [sænfrənˈsɪskoʊ] , Denver, Colorado and Jupiter, Florida. For more information, contact Lyle Liberman at 914-747-7194 (Lyle.Liberman@ActivEye.com). |
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