PicPort Color P9512.8 20123.1.11000.279 Framegrabber PAL NTSC

Tested CARD ONLY

The PicPort I/O interface generally comprises video input connectors, synchronization and opto-isolated trigger inputs and outputs. PicPort-Color can handle 4 CVBS or 3 CVBS and 1 S-video connected sources, one being digitized at a time. Switching among sources is performed via software.

The board contains a female cinch composite video connector, a female S-video connector and a female HDsub 44-pin connector. The HDsub 44-pin connector handles up to 4 video inputs and includes camera power supply output, TTL level H/V sync output, one opto-coupler in and one opto-coupler out to synchronize user application software with external events. With this multi-feature connector, the user application may be operated using just a single cable.

Based on the PCI bus Revision 2.1 specification PicPort framegrabbers are available to suit a variety of different host buses.

PicPort-Color cards feature a high quality digitizer channel and additional circuits for image conditioning.

he Pixel Stream Manager is the real heart of every PicPort. It consists of two data paths (DMA channels) with different features. Data path A features the following circuits: High Performance Scaler for fine interpolating, detail-preserving, image scaling down to approx. 40×40 pixels with horizontal plus vertical mirroring, Lock Mask Control for text or graphics overlay on the top of the live image and Pixel Packer and Color Space Converter to perform conversion to a desired color format.

The second data path B contains only the Binary Ratio Scaler.

Both data paths contain FIFO buffers for proper synchronizing the DMA transfers

With an unparalleled price/performance ratio the PicPort-Color framegrabbers are well suited for wide range of applications from many different areas including:

* industrial image processing
* vision systems
* security industry
* documentation
* medical applications
* surveillance
* automation technology
* image data bases
* research and development
* and many more

Utilizing the multimedia drivers available for PicPort-Color, the framegrabbers can be immediately used with the TWAIN driver to capture images to common office applications (MS Office, CorelDRAW, etc.) as easy as you would do with a scanner. The Video for Windows driver allows recording of video sequences in popular multimedia programs and to save them in the AVI format for example.