Imperx is bringing professional vision system video capture to ExpressCard/54 laptop computers. The company's
newly-released HD-SDI Express video capture card is a highly versatile
frame grabber capable of acquiring images from any standard definition
(SD) or high definition (HD) SDI video source and sending them to an
ExpressCard/54-compliant notebook computer at more than 235 Mbytes/sec
for real-time viewing and storage. The card supports plug-and-play
operation with live insertion and removal and incorporates advanced
features such as lookup tables and histograms.
The HD-SDI Express card offers a 75-ohm BNC coaxial connector that can
accept an analog SMPTE 292M serial signal operating at speeds to 1.486
Gbits/sec, with 274M and 296M framing. It accepts SD and HD SDI video
formats for 720p, 1080i, and 1080p resolution and saves images in
20-bit YCrCb 4:2:2 or 24-bit RGB formats. The card can capture single
or multiple frames at full resolution as well as generate standard AVI
clips, and can stamp captured frames with date and time as well as a
user-defined message. Both normal and delay capture modes are available.
HD-SDI Expresscard features:
- SD or HD SDI real time video acquisition (720p, 1080i and 1080p formats)
- Supports SMPTE 274M and 296M framing
- Saves 20 bit YCrCb 4:2:2 and 24 bit RGB data
- RAW, BMP, TIFF, AVI and adjustable JPEG file formats
- ExpressCard/54 compliant
- Provides 2.5 Gbps of bandwidth
- Plug-n-play with hot insertion/removal
- Intelligent scatter/gather DMA engine for fast efficient use of ExpressCard bandwidth and system memory
- Flow-thru pipelined architecture for low latency
- Captures single frame, multiple frames or AVI clips with date/time text overlay
- Includes advanced features including user Lookup Tables, Gamma correction, histogram, hex pixel dump, etc.
- RGB gain/offset controls with auto white balance
- Image viewer with DVR controls
- Full software suite including drivers, application and SDK
