Benefits Overview

• Results in advanced quality, compression ratio and process speed over the existing MJPEG based products.
• Dramatically reduces the blocky artifacts, typical of MJPEG, by employing a new variable macro-block encoding technology.
• Compresses frames twice as small as MJPEG, with superior quality.
• Maintains the fidelity of the frames at an extremely high compression ratio by utilizing superior edge detection techniques, while saving bandwidth.
• Provides development resource for real-time capture of high quality full frames video

Application Areas

• Prodessional Video Editing
• Mobile Technology
• Camcorders and Accessory Applications
• Surveillance Video
• Real-time Video Capturing
• OEM Video CODEC Integration
• Many more

IMPROVED VIDEO QUALITY AT ONE-HALF THE DATA RATE REQUIREMENT.

Introduction

Full Frames is a compressor/decompressor for full frames video. It is based on a variant of the H.264 standard that uses high-speed, integer-based algorithms. It is designed for software developers, integrators and all other imaging enterprises. Full Frames exceeds the performance levels of existing products based on the legacy methodologies such as Motion JPEG (MJPEG). It allows developers to create state-of-the-art full frames video compression/ decompression capabilities that surpass the quality of legacy CODEC standards. Full Frames will augment existing full frames video processing applications and provide leading software companies with advanced capabilities in the digital video industry.

Description

Full Frames can vary the size of the macro-block according to the shape and contents of the frame, unlike MJPEG, that is constrained by 16 X 16 macroblock encoding. This variable macro-blocking produces a drastic reduction of blocky artifacts and greatly increase in the frame image fidelity.

The examples at right show the superior quality of a Full Frames stream over an MJPEG stream at the same data rate. The clip consists of 30 frames.

Products

In order to meet various customer requirements, Full Frames is offered at different levels of flexibility:

API/SDK

Full Frames API/SDK allows for rapid application development of custom applications using Databolts' software components. This API/SDK is licensed with an optional technical support service.

DSP Optimized CODEC

DSP Optimized CODEC is available as code optimized for integration with a Digital Signal Processor (DSP). This code maximizes the performance of video processing.

Video for Windows Filter

Video for Windows for Full Frames have been designed and built based on the Video for Windows architecture. These filters may be used in any VFW aware application, have an intuitive user interface, allow settings to be saved between sessions, and allow application developers to rapidly implement Full Frames without the learning curve required by the API/SDK.