Products and Services

Duet is capable of running task-specific applications available from Chyron development partners including Peak, Inscriber, NewsMaker, Video Designs, BTI, Media Computing, and Callaway Graphics; or Chyron programs such as Lyric 2D/3D text, graphics, and animation display software and Liberty video paint software. It is available in standard-definition formats and HDTV formatS.

Duet System Architecture

Duet has an open-system object framework that supports 56 simultaneous, full-bandwidth video streams that can interconnect to intelligent processing modules with a real-time operating system. The base Duet system includes a 6RU rack-mount unit with high-speed backplane and auto-switching power supply, seven high-bandwidth Chyron expansion slots, a 2D/3D video graphics engine, a sync generator/input-output card, and an integrated Intel computer board and CPU. 10/100BaseT networking is standard.

Video Graphics Engine

The object-oriented 2D/3D graphics processing system provides geometry calculation, dual rasterizers with dedicated frame buffers, and is scalable to HDTV resolutions. VGE's are capable of internal keying/compositing: real-time background, video, and animated foreground graphics. The Chyron graphics processing modules support OpenGL operations and acceleration as well as hardware anti-aliasing, overlap, and layers.

Each VGE can process 2 channels of SD resolution, or 1 channel of HD resolution graphics. At SD resolutions, the modules provide frame grab and texture mapping on 2D/3D objects from a live video input. There is a scaler to size, move, and position live video in combination with graphics. Up to 5 VGE's can be combined with optional SD mixer cards.

Chyron, 5 Hub Dr., Melville, NY 11747. Phone: 516-845-2000; Fax: 516-845-5210.

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