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Formatting features
As Matrox Morphis QxT grabs images, it can vertically or horizontally flip them.
In addition, Matrox Morphis QxT can overlay information onto grabbed images.
The overlay operation can be done before images are sent to the Host.
When grabbed images are being sent to the Host, Matrox Morphis QxT supports
other formatting features. These include cropping (ROI capture), arbitrary
downscaling to 1/16th of a field or frame, and vertical/horizontal flipping.
Grabbed images can be converted into the following formats with square pixels:
RGB planar, BGR32 packed, YCrCb, YUV16 packed (stored in YUYV format),
and 8-bit monochrome.
Additional functionality
To simplify overall system integration, Matrox Morphis QxT also offers a variety
of additional features. These features include:
• Hardware facilities for implementing custom software-based motion detection.
• Integrated Watchdog capability for automatically recovering from application or
Host system failure.
• 16 TTL auxiliary input and 16 TTL auxiliary output signals. These signals can
be used to receive user input or send user output, respectively, to control or
synchronize with other devices. These signals can be internally accessed, or
accessed externally using the Matrox Morphis QxT Digital I/O module.
• Video input testing. Up to four video signals can be routed to display devices (for
example, a TV monitor, computer monitor that allows composite input, or VCR)
for test purposes. The selected video signals are sent straight to a video encoder;
they cannot be altered.
Data transfer
Matrox Morphis QxT allows the transfer of live video to Host memory. Matrox
Morphis QxT features an on-board 64-bit 133 MHz PCI-X bus master to reduce
CPU usage. The data is then transformed to PCIe before being transferred to the
Host over the Host PCIe bus.
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