Foresight Imaging Announces I-RGB Video Streamer and Frame Grabber.Business/Technology Editors NEW ORLEANS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 13, 2000 Foresight Imaging announces the I-RGB(TM) frame grabber A device that accepts standard TV signals and digitizes the current video frame into a single, bitmapped still image. Frame grabbers can be stand-alone devices that plug into a port on the computer or a function built into the video capture board or display adapter. and video streamer, the newest member of the I-Series(TM) of high accuracy, high performance imaging boards. Based on the I-Series superior performance architecture, I-RGB guarantees high speed video streaming from RGB (Red Green Blue) The computer's native color space, which is the color system for capturing and displaying images. RGB was derived from our own perception of color because human eyes are sensitive to red, green and blue (see trichromaticity). video sources as well as the exceptional image accuracy that is associated with Foresight Imaging products. Streaming video from cardiac imaging video sources using I-RGB is being demonstrated publicly for the first time in booth #670 at the American Heart Association American Heart Association (AHA), n.pr a national voluntary health agency that has the goal of increasing public and medical awareness of cardiovascular diseases and stroke, and thereby reducing the number of associated deaths and disabilities. exhibition from November 13-15 in New Orleans. "Our I-Series frame grabbers and video 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 have been extremely popular in a wide array of medical applications including cardiology, endoscopy endoscopy Examination of the body's interior through an instrument inserted into a natural opening or an incision, usually as an outpatient procedure. Endoscopes include the upper gastrointestinal endoscope (for the esophagus, stomach, and duodenum), the colonoscope (for the , ophthalmology, radiology, and much more. Many of these customers have requested a high speed, extremely accurate RGB addition to the I-Series family. I-RGB satisfies these requirements, and solves applications involving inputs from medical modalities as high as 75 MHz (MegaHertZ) One million cycles per second. It is used to measure the transmission speed of electronic devices, including channels, buses and the computer's internal clock. A one-megahertz clock (1 MHz) means some number of bits (16, 32, 64, etc. ," said Tony Molinari, Vice President, Marketing & Business Development. About I-RGB I-RGB delivers the highest accuracy RGB video images and guaranteed high speed video streaming. I-RGB is available in three models: I-RGB 25, I-RGB 50, and I-RGB 75. These support pixel input rates up to 25 MHz, 50 MHz, and 75 MHz respectively. Each accepts one RGB video input from non-standard and standard video sources. Video digitization is 24 bit RGB and color video formats include RGB 8:8:8 and YUV The color encoding system used for analog television worldwide (NTSC, PAL and SECAM). The YUV color space (color model) differs from RGB, which is what the camera captures and what humans view. 4:2:2. Contributing to its superior accuracy, I-RGB features extremely low pixel jitter A flicker or fluctuation in a transmission signal or display image. The term is used in several ways, but it always refers to some offset of time and space from the norm. For example, in a network transmission, jitter would be a bit arriving either ahead or behind a standard clock cycle of +/-1.0 ns and a signal-to-noise ratio The ratio of the power or volume (amplitude) of a signal to the amount of unwanted interference (the noise) that has mixed in with it. Measured in decibels, signal-to-noise ratio (SNR or S/N) measures the clarity of the signal in a circuit or a wired or wireless transmission channel. of 47 dB. Powered by high speed PCI bus mastering, scatter-gather technology, and double buffering, I-RGB supports 120+ MB/second sustained PCI bus transfers to accommodate the most demanding video streaming applications. I-RGB supports simultaneous real-time display via real-time transfer of images directly to display card memory. Software Support I-RGB is supported by Auto-SYNC, Foresight Imaging's revolutionary automated configuration software. Auto-SYNC automatically analyzes the incoming non-standard or standard video signal and configures the frame grabber to acquire high precision images from that video source. As a member of the I-Series of frame grabbers and video streamers, I-RGB is supported by the IDEA(TM) (Imaging Development Environment for Applications) software development kit. IDEA supports both the I-Series and HI*DEF(TM) product families so that once an application is written with IDEA, users have support for all I-Series and HI*DEF boards without re-writing their software. Extensive example programs (with source code) for acquisition, video streaming (with or without compression), graphics overlays, and more are included with each I-RGB board. Common Vision Blox, Image-Pro Plus, Optimas, and TWAIN drivers are available for higher-level application requirements. Pricing and Availability I-RGB product shipments are expected in February 2001. Pricing starts at $1,436 in 100 piece quantities. About Foresight Imaging Foresight Imaging is a world leader in the design and marketing of high accuracy, high performance video streamers and frame grabbers for the machine vision, scientific and medical imaging markets. For further information, visit www.foresightimaging.com or email info@foresightimaging.com. Foresight Imaging, Auto-SYNC, HI*DEF, I-Series, I-Color, I-RGB, and IMASCAN are trademarks of Foresight Imaging, LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control . All other products and brand names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. All specifications are subject to change. |
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