SynchroMaster 555

HI-RES IMAGE COMBINER

The new SynchroMaster® 555 overlayer/keyer combines pictures from two high resolution computer sources or image generators into a composite image. The two signals, one foreground and one background, are digitized, synchronized, and combined at up to 1920 x 1200 pixel resolution.

The SynchroMaster 555 picture combiner offers color keying of RGB analog and DVI sources with exceptional picture quality. The picture combiner unit supports one dual RGB or DVI channel and a second RGB channel. This picture combiner can synchronize and combine signals of different line and frame rates and interlacing formats. Using a chroma-key technique, one signal is made visible through the other wherever a color falls within a specified color range. Either channel can be configured as the foreground or the background signal. The output signal is genlocked to one of the two inputs, and is available in either RGB or DVI format.

The SynchroMaster 555 picture combiner features an easy-to-use interface for selecting a key color. The user simply moves a cursor over the image being keyed on until it is positioned over the desired color.

In a typical aircraft or helicopter simulation, one image generator produces the background, an out-the-window display, and a second produces the foreground, a heads-up display (HUD). The SynchroMaster 555 picture combiner combines the two images into a pilot's view through the HUD. Important in simulation, the architecture offers very low latency.

Superior image quality, input versatility, and operational simplicity make the SynchroMaster 555 picture combiner an excellent image combiner solution for applications in simulation and command-and-control.