HaiVision and Obzerv Collaborate to Assure High Quality Encoding of Long Range Surveillance Video

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Telepresence and Holography / Holograms - November 2008

Editor’s viewpoint on their differences, likenesses and future...

We all just recently viewed an historic CNN holographic interview on an historic Election Night. CNN stated this type of imaging has never been done before on National TV and I believe that. I haven’t seen anything like it. The live interview caught me by surprise and sure had the “wow” factor attached to it didn’t it? Here’s a link to the actual interview.

CNN Hologram Video

The question now has to be asked. Is it Telepresence?

I’m no expert on the subject but I’m going to throw my hat into the ring, go out on a limb and say yes, I believe it is. Although I know many video conferencing purists are rolling their eyes and grabbing their guns right about now with my statement.

While I do know that Telepresence still hasn’t been universally defined (Houston, we have a problem), here’s how I see it…. Broken down to its simplest form - “tele” (through electronic means) and “presence” (present). This is how I’m justifying my opinion by lumping holography and Telepresence together. Just as Telepresence is surely an offshoot of video conferencing, holographic imaging (like we viewed on CNN) surely has to be considered an offshoot of Telepresence. The interviewer was “telepresent” from Chicago and beamed into the CNN Election Headquarters. She was most assuredly - “telepresent”. There was negligible latency, the imaging was fantastic and both interviewers were rehearsed on what they would say. I’ve just recently read that CNN actually “downgraded” the experience to make it “movie” quality and not as good as it could have been. Maybe they thought us mere mortals would be shocked if they showed their complete hand. I have a feeling it was so big to them, they didn’t want it to get upstaged by the historic election. I’m willing to bet we’ll see the “true” power of this technology in the upcoming weeks and months when they can put the pedal to the medal and show it off without having it sidetracked.

What an amazing time for this technology (all differences and opinions aside). Telepresence Doctors, nurses, teachers, schools and healthcare (healthpresence) will benefit from the recent gains in this state-of-the-art industry whether holograms, Telepresence or holography. Airlines also have to see the threat to a portion of their business travel. Hell, who wants go through security and fly to Miami for a two-hour conference when you can look them in the eye via Telepresence?

Beam me up Scotty! Simply amazing…!

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Your Editor and Administrator - L II
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(PRWEB) August 6, 2007 -- HaiVision Systems Inc. (Montreal, Canada), the world leader in performance video encoding technology today announces technical collaboration with Obzerv Technologies Inc., the leading manufacturer of laser range-gated night vision surveillance systems. This technical collaboration is aimed to assure codec performance for the specific attributes of video generated by long range night surveillance cameras.

The rigors of such video include high contrasts, low light scenes combined with rapid scene motion created during long range panning. The technical collaboration between Obzerv and HaiVision has been established to provide performance benchmarks during encoder development and market test activities. These advance testing procedures assure integrators that HaiVision's codec systems are performance tunable for the most severe video applications. Already a first round of tests earlier this year has demonstrated excellent performance for an integration solution.

"Long range night surveillance applications require very flexible bandwidth management capabilities, operation over unreliable networks, and high quality efficient compression capable of dealing with scenes exhibiting fast moving and high dynamic range characteristics. Many encoders have trouble dealing reliably with such constraints, even freezing or interrupting services. We submitted HaiVision systems with pathological video sequences that tripped other systems and they came true perfectly," states Deni Bonnier, President of Obzerv Technologies.

"High-end surveillance applications are critical by nature," emphasizes Francois Gariepy, HaiVision's President. "It matches perfectly the strengths of our codec products. Our collaboration with Obzerv will deliver a perfectly tuned integrated solution and eliminate risks for our mutual integration partners."

HaiVision's hai500 MPEG-2 and hai1000 and TASMAN MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 video encoders are known as the high performance in terms of latency, picture quality and stability and system.

See www.haivision.com for application notes on long range surveillance and specifications on all of HaiVision's technology including the new MAKO-HD high definition extreme low latency encoder decoder.

About Obzerv Technologies Inc.

Obzerv Technologies, headquartered in Quebec, QC, Canada, specializes in the design, and manufacturing of Laser Range-Gated Imaging System for night surveillance. Obzerv's ARGC-2400 is complementary to Thermal Imagers, and can allow the operator to read registration marks and see through windows at long range. The installation in support of radars for coastal surveillance has shown a requirement for high performance codec product. (www.obzerv.com)

About HaiVision Systems Inc.

HaiVision Systems Inc. is a private company dedicated to improving the way people live and work through the use of advanced network video technology. HaiVision's interactive products are used in the foremost telepresence suites, boardrooms, and continuous presence distance education systems worldwide. They are used as well in the medical field supporting information and service delivery within hospital campuses and across nations. HaiVision's streaming products are also used extensively for video backhaul and distribution in broadcast and IPTV applications. Please have a look at the product information, case studies, videos, and file samples available in the file download area of our web site.

For further information, please contact:

Ceicy Tsui                

HaiVision Systems Inc.    

Tel: (514) 334-5445, ext. 251            

Email: ctsui (at) haivision.com

Web: www.haivision.com

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