A standalone PCI plug in card, the VisionRGB-PRO2 captures the display output (e.g. the analogue RGB data) from one source and then displays it as an independent application, on your Windows® desktop. The VisionRGB-PRO2 has two VGA compatible inputs for simultaneously feeding two independent data sources directly into your main PC. The data is then converted on the VisionRGB-PRO2 and displayed as a standard Windows® application on your desktop. All your data in one place and no need for that dedicated monitor.

The VisionRGB-PRO2 can be operated with any standard graphics adapter and is supplied with Windows® 2000, Windows® Server 2003 and Windows® XP-PRO drivers. For applications requiring improved update rates and lower system overhead then we recommend using the Vantage4 or iH4 range of graphics adapters. The VisionRGB software, when used with the Datapath graphics cards, implements direct DMA to the graphics texture memory. The captured RGB is then rendered to the display using hardware texture mapping to greatly improve performance. This implementation dramatically improves update rates when the image is up-scaled as would be required with video wall and data wall applications. Up to 32 VisionRGB-PRO cards can be installed in a single system, providing up to 64 channels of RGB capture.

Each part of the up-scaled image is rendered by the associated graphics processor, effectively parallel processing the up-scaling process. The VisionRGB-PRO2 is also supplied with a powerful software application for configuring the timing and the format of the input sources and displaying the captured data. We also provide an SDK so you can interface the VisionRGB-PRO2 to your own applications.

VisionRGB-PRO2

•DMA transfers the data across the PCI bus without using host CPU cycles
•When used with Datapath Vantage4 or iH4 adapters, the CPU load is negligable even if the image is being upscaled to a video wall, resulting in real time performance
•Hardware up and downscaling for resizing the captured video
•The VisionRGB-PRO2 uses specialised dual ported video memory to ensure the highest possible performance with low system overhead
•The VisionRGB-PRO2 has 6MBytes of video capture memory per channel and can capture data at 640 x 480, 800 x 600, 1024 x 768 and 1600 x 1200 resolutions. RGB interlaced modes are also supported as well as many non standard modes
•The VisionRGB-PRO2 captures data at a maximum pixel rate of 280MHz. Once captured, the data is converted to either 555, 565 or 888 pixel display formats and then transferred over the PCI bus to host memory, for display on the desktop
•Dynamic Input Source Selection
•Administrator Mode
•Update Indicator
•The VisionRGB-PRO2 application program is also built into the Datapath Wall Control software for video wall systems
•The VisionRGB-PRO2 is optimised for operation with the range of Vantage4 and iH4 graphics cards for maximum update rates