New video-processing chips, meanwhile, let agents merge images from infrared cameras with regular video.
It combines big, high-definition screens, spatially sensitive microphones, custom video-processing technology and networking equipment.
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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.
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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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 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 .
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Switching to software rendering mode in the editing program shows a night-and-day difference: video playback is extremely choppy, and processing moves at a crawl.
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.
High-end audio manufacturers are utilizing the very best in video processing to give their customers the best they can.
Consumer demand for more powerful chips could pick up once households have broadband connections to video-and graphics-rich Web sites, which require a lot of processing power.
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.
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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That said, the patent does suggest that older iPhones may not have enough processing power for the gesture-capturing workload, as it shows a way to transfer video from the iPhone to an iPad for more advanced editing options.
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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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.
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