But it is also scheduled to be used for far less demanding tasks, such as processing video animation.
Chicory already is pitching designs for accelerating the processing of video and audio streams, as well as accelerators for converting code written for cell phone chips designed by ARM, the British shop, into code that can be read by Pentiums and other chips.
He mentions use cases like batch processing, scientific computing, video and image processing and rendering, testing and Web crawling.
High-end audio manufacturers are utilizing the very best in video processing to give their customers the best they can.
The project (Bell Labs declines to disclose its cost) combined the work of physicists, app developers, signal processing experts and video engineers.
All of that naturally comes with some trade-offs (less defined video processing is one example given), but the researchers say those are often outweighed by the benefits -- like cheaper, faster chips that require far less power.
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Anyway, the FPD2185W also has a integrated Faroudja chip for enhanced video processing, a built-in 4 port USB hub, a 1000:1 contrast ratio, 178 degree viewing angle (both vertical and horizontal), and an 8ms pixel response time.
The center incorporates advanced video processing calibrated to the DCI (Digital Cinema Initiative) color standards recently adopted by most Hollywood studios and distributors, as well as removeable-hard-disk data storage to accommodate multiple DCI-standard motion picture titles ready for immediate playback.
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Cell chips are well suited to processing streams of video and sound, and for modelling the complex three-dimensional worlds of video games, so Cell's debut will be in Sony's next-generation games console, the PlayStation 3, which is expected to contain four of the beasts.
Better hope so if you had your heart set on the Anthem Statement D2v -- the flagship model is now shipping, complete with eight HDMI 1.3 inputs and a pair of outputs, top notch video processing courtesy the VXP silicon, and four DSP cores handling audio duties with support for high resolution audio formats and of course, Anthem's Room Correction (ARC) software.
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New video-processing chips, meanwhile, let agents merge images from infrared cameras with regular video.
The current 3D camera module developed by Sharp incorporates functions to process the image data output by the left and right cameras, including Color Synchronizing Processing to adjust color and brightness, Timing Synchronizing Processing to synchronize the timing of the video signals, and Optical Axis Control Processing to correct positioning.
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It combines big, high-definition screens, spatially sensitive microphones, custom video-processing technology and networking equipment.
Video-processing algorithms will soon be powerful enough to recognize another vehicle on a collision course.
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The OpenVibe2 project, with all its commercial and academic partners, brings together neuroscience, computer science, signal processing, ergonomics and video games all under one roof.
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The graphics processing unit (GPU) "has become a much more important processor in a system than it was just a few years ago, when everything was 2-D in nature, " says Sam Blackman, chief executive of Elemental Technologies, a company that builds video-processing software that runs on Nvidia's gear.
Intel--which keeps its own PCs about 15% longer than in the past--hopes a new wave of "multitasking" will chew up future processing power and says desktop video could help.
Its exceptionally sophisticated 10-bit video digital signal processing provides for adaptive de-interlacing of both SD and HD sources, edge enhancement without ringing, and uniquely adaptive noise reduction, as well as extensive color and grey level calibration.
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Intel--which keeps its own PCs about 15% longer than it did in the past--hopes that a new wave of "multitasking" will chew up future processing power and says that desktop video could help.
Autonomy makes a lot of products that do that, from enterprise search and document discovery, to video cataloging, natural language processing, and the generation of classifications and taxonomies on the fly.
The processing of vast amounts of data, especially video, will also eat into handsets' battery life.
Alongside improved signal processing, the main boon here is HDR video recording.
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Adam Aronson is CEO of Arrowsight, a provider of remote video auditing services for the food processing, quick-serve restaurant and health-care industries.
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The system consists of Integra's DLV-100 Digital Light Processing projector and the FPV-1 Digital Video Processor, which Integra co-developed with Faroudja Laboratories .
Portable consoles are now competing with phones and tablets, both of which are evolving at breakneck pace when it comes to processing power, display quality and things like video recording capabilities.
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Mr Joy says that his new design, which turns a single chip into a parallel-processing system, can handle huge amounts of video and audio data at speeds that would overwhelm the usual Intel chip.
The new Nikon 1 J2 features a 10.1-megapixel CX-format CMOS sensor and the EXPEED 3 image processing engine to give users images and HD video with amazing fidelity and color, along with the ability to capture images in challenging lighting situations.
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Broadcom's 28 nanometer (nm) ARM-based BCM7445 UltraHD video decoder solution, serving as the primary gateway to the home, delivers more transcoding, CPU processing performance and home networking throughput to support a greater range of applications such as video-on-demand (VoD), gaming, social media and web store applications.
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Certainly, streaming a video over the Internet is cheaper than processing and mailing DVDs to customers, and the margins are better.
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