High Speed Video - Systems 28.10.2006

LowCost Recording Systems

COSYCO has integrated and tested a powerful mobile recording system at the attractive price of 8,500 Euros plus tax.

Performance:

  • VGA Camera (color or monochrom)
  • FrameLink Frame Grabber (PCMCIA)
  • Recording Software VideoSavant
  • Notebook HP NC8430 (or äquivalent)

Total Recording Time: appr. 15 seconds


High-Speed Camera Recorder from FastVision

COSYCO has signed a contract with FastVision a leading supplier of high-speed cameras for recording of uncompressed and compressed video streams.


HighSpeed Camera

The model FC13 is the fastest camera within the family. At the resolution of 1.3 MegaPixels the camera delivers appr. 500 fps with a resolution of 10 bits. The camera can reach much higher frame rates if only a portion of the sensor is read out. During recording the image data are stored in internal memory. The recording can be controlled through manual or external trigger. In many applications it is difficult to estimate an interesting event. A circular buffer method helps to record continuously frames until an interesting sequence has occurred. In this case the user can either stop recording immediately or continue for a predefined number of frames (pre- and post trigger).


HighSpeed - HighRes Camera (HDTV)

The model FC40 offers a fascinating resolution of 4 MegaPixels at 10 bit, monochrome or color and a frame rate of more than 200 fps.

Through windowing the user can choose a true HDTV resolution of 1920 x 1080 (non interlased) and a slow motion frame rate of 320 fps.


HighSpeed - HighSensitivity

Light is always a common problem in high speed recording. Very often there is not enough light or light sources are to hot for the material to be illuminated. For such extreme conditions COSYCO offers intensified high speed cameras with either 1st, 2nd , 3rd or 4th generation intensifiers.








Overview

FC13_Datasheet.pdf

FC40_Datasheet.pdf

Software-Manual.pdf

Optional-Intensivier.pdf


Portable Recording Systems

Based on IO Industries DVR Express technology (SCSI or Fibre Channel Controller) we offer long-term recording systems configured to the customer's special needs. Whether you look for a high resolution media type of application or a real high speed recording system we can optimize the configuration to get the best price/performance for a certain application. We have for instance configured a system that records 75 fps at the high resolution of 1280x1024 pixels or 300 fps at a resolution of 1280x256 pixels. With a total disk capacity of 108 GBytes the recording time is appr. 20 minutes.



High End Long-Term Recording Systems

Based on DVR Express technology and software from IO Industries COSYCO offers real complex turnkey recording systems where high data rates from many cameras or several high-speed cameras are stored in hard disk arrays.

We delivered quite an impressive system to MPI for computer science in Saarbruecken. The system records video streams from eight synchronized high resolution color cameras (Imperx 1.004x1.004x12bit) at a maximum rate of 48 fps. The synchronized images are stored on standard SCSI hard disk drives through eight IO Industries DVR Express SCSI disk controllers. As the images are taken using electronic global shutter to freeze movements the frame rate goes down to 40 fps.

Another high end system was built with four synchronized high speed cameras recording 500 fps each on 48 hard disk drives. The overall sustained bandwidth exceeds 2.6 GigaBytes per seconds recorded over more than 13 minutes. That means that the system records the content of four CDs every second for 13 minutes. The system was built using IO Industries DVR Express CLFC Fibre Channel Controller.

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