Introduction To Spectraview Ii; Overview; Main Features And Benefits - NEC SpectraView 2190 User Manual

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Overview

Designed for professionals with color critical applications, SpectraView II combines the award winning NEC display
monitor technology with a color measurement sensor and sophisticated software. The result is highly accurate,
reliable, repeatable, and feature rich display calibration and profiling solution.
The SpectraView system uses a color sensor to take color measurements of the display screen during calibration.
The software analyzes these measurements and sends color adjustment commands directly to the display monitor.
This means that color adjustments are made in the monitor rather than in the video graphics adapter, resulting in
full use of the number of colors available on the graphics adapter and a much brighter image with the maximum
possible color gamut. With SpectraView, the video graphics adapter is not used at all to make any gamma or Tone
Response Curve corrections to the display, so the full color resolution and fidelity of the system is maintained.

Main Features and benefits

SpectraView provides the following features and benefits:
Automatic calibration - SpectraView communicates with the display monitors using Display Data
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Channel - Command Interface (DDC/CI) which is a two-way communications link between the video
graphics adapter and display monitor using the normal video signal cable. No extra cables are necessary. All
adjustments to the monitor settings are done automatically using this communications link. It is not necessary
to manually configure the monitor as all of the necessary settings are made by the software.
10 or 12 bit internal Look Up Tables (LUTs) - each LCD display monitor supported by SpectraView
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II features three internal 10 or 12 bit LUTs (depending on the model). These tables allow very precise
adjustments to be made to the display's Tone Response Curve without reducing the number of displayable
colors or introducing color banding artifacts.
Multiple Calibration Sets - Different display monitor calibrations can be instantly loaded allowing quick
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and easy switching between different calibration settings without the need to re-calibrate the display. Each
time a calibration set is loaded, the necessary monitor settings and ICC/ColorSync profiles are automatically
updated.
Informative - At the end of each display monitor calibration, an information window is displayed which
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shows the results of the calibration and includes a wealth of information about the display such as the
measured color gamut, grayscale color tracking, Delta-E, and luminance values. Additional information about
the display monitor such as the model name, serial number and the total number of hours that it has been in
use are also displayed.
Calibration status validation - SpectraView will query each calibrated monitor to see if any controls
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have changed since the last calibration. If anything has changed, the previous calibrated state can be
restored automatically.
Flexible - SpectraView provides many features and options that make it flexible enough to be used in a
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large variety of applications, including full DICOM support for medical imaging. The display luminance can be
adjusted to either a specific value or to the maximum possible that the display can achieve.
Network support (
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network software (available separately from your NEC representative.) to provide remote network access
and monitoring of display monitors. NaViSet Administrator is able to read, display, and log the current
Introduction to SpectraView II
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Windows only) - SpectraView integrates with the NEC NaViSet Administrator
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