Sunday 19 June 2011

NEC Electronics Sharpens Image Quality

NEC Electronics today introduced a new application-specific standard
product (ASSP) to address the dramatic divergence between yesterday's
image resolution and the high resolution of today's audio-visual (AV)
display systems. Based on the company's unique single-frame
super-resolution technology, the small, low-power ASSP (part number
uPD9245GJ) reduces the blurring that occurs when low-resolution images
are expanded and displayed in high-resolution. The ASSP sharpens
out-of-focus images, smoothes rough edges and refines contours by
analyzing and processing information contained in one frame of data in
real time. Using standard video interfaces for data input and output,
designers can easily integrate the ASSP into a wide variety of
consumer, industrial, medical and automotive devices that handle
images and video.

The technology is also available as an intellectual property (IP) core
that can be embedded into ASICs or other ASSP products, such as NEC
Electronics' Enhanced Multimedia Architecture (EMMAâ) ASSP for digital
AV devices. NEC Electronics plans to continue developing
next-generation super-resolution ASSPs with increased operating
frequency and expanded video output size, and by 2010, the company
expects to receive orders totaling more than US$110 million for
super-resolution products.

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