BARCO Launches Conduction-Cooled VME Video Mixer
FARNBOROUGH, UK, 10 September, 1998 -- BARCO Display Systems premieres the FlexiVision conduction-cooled video window subsystem at the Farnborough International Exhibition, September 7-13, 1998. BARCO’s new conduction-cooled FlexiVision subsystem is a three (3) 6U VME card set that provides the simultaneous display of separate multi-sensor video sources.
For critical airborne surveillance applications, the FlexiVision video mixers can process radar, FLIR and video data, which is presented on a single display with any standard RGB video output, ranging from 640 x 480 to 1600 x 1200 resolution. The video sources, which appear as windows within the high resolution RGB video, can be independently positioned, scaled, and merged.
FlexiVision offers a totally digital video mixing implementation. This digital approach to mixing insures video fidelity over the full airborne platform operating temperature range. This digital process also eliminates video artifacts such as video windowing edge noise, or noise effects from overlayed windows (cursors), associated with analogue mixed systems. FlexiVision provides unique capabilities such as keying, and transparency display, when processing data from a wide range of video signals.
BARCO’s new conduction-cooled VME FlexiVision video window subsystem was selected by Raytheon Computer Products, Marlborough, Massachusetts, USA, for the Royal Air Force NIMROD Mk4 Tactical Command System.
About BarcoView:
BarcoView with operation facilities in Kortrijk (Belgium), Toulouse (France), Atlanta, Georgia and Portland, Oregon (USA) designs and manufactures high-resolution display systems, displays, graphics controllers and display subsystems for highly demanding niche markets such as C4I, avionics, vessel and air traffic control, vehicle electronics, and medical imaging applications.
Alongside Barco Projection Systems and BarcoVision, BarcoView is one of the three strategic activities of the BARCO Group, which are all active in Image Processing. Barco Projection is in various markets of large screen visualization, whereas BarcoVision develops systems for visual inspection and quality control. In 2000, the entire BARCO group delivered a turnover of euro 751 million. BARCO has a network of subsidiaries, distributors and agents in 97 countries throughout the world. BARCO has been quoted on the Brussels Stock Exchange since 1986, and is now quoted on Brussels/Euronext. BARCO is a BEL 20 and a Next 150 company and is member of the Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes.
For more information, please contact
Inge
Govaerts
Public Relations Manager
Barco Security & Monitoring
Telephone
+32 56 36 8052
inge.govaerts@barco.com
