OCEANVIEW DEBUTS REVOLUTIONARY VIDEO STABILIZATION VEI
This unique option eliminates the effects of unwanted camera motion on a marine display. SteadyView turns shaky, unclear video into crisp, clear actionable information.
"OceanView is proud to bring this amazing new technology to the marine night-vision market," said Kelly Hulse, OceanView Technologies' Chief Technology Officer. "OceanView revolutionized the way we navigate at night, SteadyView makes night vision usable when things get rough"
SteadyView can be added to all existing Apollo and Apollo II installations and can be combined with either thermal or low-light cameras. It requires no additional motion sensors, everything is contained in one unit. SteadyView won't wear out the pan and tilt motors in the camera, since there are no moving parts. The video stabilization can also be turned off when owners don't want to use it. This innovative option takes under an hour to install.
Works with all OceanView Cameras
The SteadyView stabilizer is an in-line video stabilizer which evaluates moving video in real time and stabilizes it. Thanks to this, all the OceanView cameras can us it to stabilize their video, even in existing installations. The installation consists of connecting the video feed from the camera to the input side of the stabilizer using a BNC connector and then connecting the output side to the display or Xi box. Then provide 12 or 24 power to the stabilizer and the system is ready to use.
How does it work
SteadyView is a video stabilizer. A video stabilizer processes video to remove motion; this should not be confused with mechanical stabilization where the pan and tilt move to cancel motion. The strengths of a video stabilizer are that fast high frequency motion can be removed and without any moving parts, they are very reliable. Video stabilization is also relatively inexpensive compared to the mechanical forms. The relative weakness of video stabilization is that the image can only be moved within the frame. In other words, it can't shift the image farther than the size of the image itself. So, high rate turns and very violent pitching are not good applications for video stabilization. The good news here is that when weather conditions change for the worse, most of us wouldn't want to be there anyway and most mechanical stabilizers couldn't keep up.
So how does it work? The basic concept is simple: The processor analyses the video and determines the common motion in the picture by comparing one frame to the next. Then the processor offsets the image in the opposite direction to compensate for the motion. The result is like magic; a solid clean image.
To best understand it, just watch the above video and you'll se just how amazing it is. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rf8N67-I7KI.
28 July 2011
