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Building YouTube into embedded applications
Direct-access YouTube viewing -- without going through a browser -- can add a compelling, valuable feature to a set top box, media player or other device. How to build direct-access YouTube utilizing a TI DaVinci processor.
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Imaging and Camera Technology
IP video surveillance standards
The video surveillance industry has been slow to adopt standards. Feature-rich IP cameras and encoders offer higher resolutions and embedded analytic capabilities, but the lack of standards has kept some of these devices out of reach, and increases integration costs for solution providers and manufacturers.
Teardown: Digicam highlights integration, price erosion
The Mini Digital Camera highlights the integration and reduction in silicon and board area which has enabled Vivitar to bring a toy camera to market at a price point below $10.
Reducing fluorescent flicker in security camera video
The problem with video cameras and fluorescent (and LED) lighting takes shape in slightly different ways worldwide, but boils down to a video sampling issue that results in problems ranging from color shifts every few seconds to video that "beats" strongly and even disappears periodically.
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Display Technologies
Touchscreens 101: Understanding touchscreen technology and design
This article looks at the three basic technologies and their key attributes
Soft-start functionality in LED driver soothes eyes
LED brightness goes from zero to 100% almost instantly. That property is welcome in a camera flash, but rather annoying for general lighting.
Photo frames vie to be 'third screen' at home
The lowly digital photo frame is emerging as a connected "third screen" at home, and the product's evolution has chip suppliers, consumer electronics companies and even wireless carriers seeing dollar signs.
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Video Processing
Product how-to: DSP/FPGA platform for video surveillance
Avnet's video surveillance platform pairs a TI DM6437 DaVinci DSP with a Xilinx Spartan-3A DSP FPGA. here's how the platform works, and how to get the most out of it.
SIGNAL CHAIN BASICS (Part 27): Control EMI resulting from board-level clock distribution
Use shielding, decoupling, careful layout, and changes to the clock-source characteristics to beat EMI induced by clock distribution on your PC board
The VP8 video codec: High compression+low complexity
On2 VP8 achieves high compression with a bitstream that is less compute intensive to decode than either its predecessor (VP7) or competing technologies like H.264. Here's how it works.
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Digital TV/Home Entertainment
Building YouTube into embedded applications
Direct-access YouTube viewing -- without going through a browser -- can add a compelling, valuable feature to a set top box, media player or other device. How to build direct-access YouTube utilizing a TI DaVinci processor.
Designing HDTVs with CEC to Energy Star 3.0
If all TVs purchased in 2009 were to meet these new standards for power efficiency, the savings in greenhouse gas emissions would be equal to removing one million cars from the road. But the EPA estimates that only 25 percent of HDTVs currently entering the market will be capable of meeting these stricter requirements.
Who doesn't need Ethernet timestamps?
Three common ways to implement a real time Ethernet design using IEEE 1588 time stamping and some of the applications which use each method.
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Mobile/Portable Video
Building YouTube into embedded applications
Direct-access YouTube viewing -- without going through a browser -- can add a compelling, valuable feature to a set top box, media player or other device. How to build direct-access YouTube utilizing a TI DaVinci processor.
Components of an ROV system - Part 2: Primary subsystems and electrical considerations
Part 2 of this excerpt from "The ROV Manual" looks at the primary subsystems of an ROV - including lighting, cameras, sensors and manipulators - and considers specific issues regarding the tether, power, data, and the connectors.
Achieving Six Sigma Quality for IC Design
The manufacturing industry saw significant improvement in quality within the last few decades due to the implementation of Lean Manufacturing process and Six Sigma quality control measures.
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About the Video/Imaging DesignLine How-To Section
Video/Imaging DesignLine's How-To Section delivers detailed engineering articles focused on the design and development of imaging and camera technology, display technologies, video processing, digital TV, home entertainment, mobile video and portable TV devices, as well as other technology relating to video and imaging. This includes design of products such as digital camcorders, set top boxes, TV receivers, portable media players, media servers, home video networking devices, surveillance cameras and digital video recorders incorporating technologies such as codecs, DSP, FPGA, System-on-Chip, CCD, CMOS, H.264, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4.
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