RGB/View® 8000

The RGB/Vieww® 8000 controller displays real-time video windows on a high resolution monitor. Each window can be independently positioned, scaled to any size, overlaid with computer graphics or overlapped with other windows. In addition, the user can pan and zoom within each image.

The system was developed for applications requiring the simultaneous real-time display of high quality video and computer-generated images. The RGB/View 8000 offers up to four scaleable video inputs, one scaleable high resolution RGB/DVI input and one background signal on a single VME board.

The RGB/View processor guarantees real-time video performance under all conditions. Its architecture has a unique advantage: the multi-image display imposes no burden on the host CPU, frame buffer or bus.

Features include frame grabbing of individual inputs or the combined screen image, over the VMEbus or Ethernet port, a fully digital signal path available with DVI input and output, and a chroma key for overlays.

In typical operation, the 8000 is genlocked to an input signal displayed in the background. Overlaying of signals is supported using a chromakey technique. The user chooses a "key" color in the background to specify where it is transparent; the result is that portions of the background signal, as thin as a single line, appear over the windowed video. If no background signal is required, the output of the 8000 can be "free run" to a user defined specification.

Excellent video quality, real-time performance, a unique set of features and compatibility with virtually all VME CPU and graphics boards makes the RGB/View 8000 the finest video windowing systems available.