FalconEye offers video compression engine

SEPTEMBER 23--MuTech Corporation (Billerica, MA; www.mutech.com), a manufacturer of high-accuracy, high-quality video-capture products for machine/industrial vision, robot vision, picture identification, traffic monitoring, image analysis, and security/surveillance, has announced the FalconEye PCI Bus Wavelet Compression Engine. The FalconEye is a high-quality color/monochrome video digitizer/compression engine capable of switching the video sources, digitizing, compressing, and storing the compressed video data to either fixed or removable media. The compressed data can also be transmitted to a local/remote location through LAN, WAN, or Internet.

The FalconEye supports colored (NTSC/PAL/Y-C) or monochrome (RS-170/CCIR) video sources. The on-board compression hardware can process 60 fields per second of CCIR601 format of digital video. The FalconEye provides up to 16 Event Inputs and two Strobe outputs. Event inputs can be programmed with any combination of AND/OR to generate an Alarm Signal.

Videos from up to 16 cameras (Extended) can be selected for recording/transmission. Up to eight video sources are supported on the MDR-36 36 pin connector. The total number of active channels and the frame rate of each individual channel are programmable by software. A video output provides a preview of the selected channel on a video monitor.