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TheaterSync Video Processor User Manual

2 Introduction

2.1General Description

The NEC TheaterSync (see Figure 1) is a high performance video signal processor intended as a companion for plasma and projector displays. TheaterSync brings the power of Silicon Optix HQVTM (“Hollywood Quality Video”TM) technology to viewers of plasma and projector displays. Initially conceived in the military research labs of Lockheed Martin and then refined and commercialized by Teranex and Silicon Optix, HQV video processing has been the technology of choice of film and video professionals in broadcast and studio environments for years. A breakthrough in cost reduction and packaging now enables this revolutionary technology - previously found only in Professional Post Production, Film Editing and Broadcast Studios – to be delivered to your home or business viewing environment.

Figure 1: NEC TheaterSync Video Processor

As a video signal processor, TheaterSync receives the video signals generated by a wide variety of consumer electronic and professional devices, switches between them, and applies HQV signal processing to the selected signal (see Figure 2). The processed signal is then scaled to the appropriate resolution and aspect ratio of the plasma panel, projector, or other display device. HQV signal processing includes the following powerful features:

State-of-the-art, motion-adaptive de-interlacing for both SDTV and HDTV

Temporal Recursive Noise Reduction

Codec Noise Reduction (includes mosquito noise reduction and block artifact removal)

Detail Enhancement

Fully-automatic detection and correction for multiple film/video cadences (3:2, 2:2, vari- speed, 6:4, 8:7, etc.)

AnyPlaceTM technology for extreme off-axis keystone correction

Brightness-Contrast Enhancement

Color Space Conversion and Color Temperature Adjustment

For more information on HQV technology, visit http://www.hqv.com.

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