Pleora Technologies – a firm that develops video transmitters and receivers that enable the streaming of data or video in real-time – has introduced a new patented ‘RapidPIX’ lossless compression technology, which increases data throughput by almost 70 percent while meeting the low latency and reliability demands of machine vision and medical imaging applications.
The lossless compression solution in the new RapidPIX technology minimizes the amount of data transmitted over the network to reduce power consumption, while also removing the need for costly infrastructure upgrades. Such lossless compression technology supports multi-taps and multi-components.
Imaging data is fed into the RapidPIX encoder. This is then analysed against compression profiles before the best approach is selected based on application requirements. Latency performance is less than two lines (approximately 0.022 milliseconds) when deployed on a system operating at 1024×1024 resolution, Mono8 pixel format with two taps at 40MHz. The number of taps and pixel format can also help to further improve latency performance.
The 'RapidPIX’ lossless compression technology is Pleora's latest offering (Image: MVPro Media)
Added compression will allow designers to deploy the iPORT NTx-Mini-LC to support low latency transmission of GigE Vision system compliant packets at more than 1.5Gb/per second throughput rates over existing 1Gb Ethernet infrastructure.
Pleora states that iPORT NTx-Mini-LC has also been designed with RapidPIX compression into X-ray panels for services such as medical and dental imaging, contact image sensors, and industrial camera applications.
Jonathan Hou, President of Pleora Technologies, said: “System designers have been asking us for ways to increase resolution and frame rates over existing Ethernet infrastructure for machine vision applications, without compromising on latency or image data integrity that Pleora is known for.”
“With RapidPIX we’re meeting this demand. Pleora’s patented compression technique delivers bandwidth advantages that increase performance without impacting the data quality required for accurate processing in critical applications. As an immediate advantage, designers can cost-effectively increase data throughput while retaining existing installed infrastructure. While boosting performance our compression technology helps further conserve valuable resources, including power consumption, to reduce system costs.”
Pleora will initially offer RapidPIX on its new iPORT NTx-Mini-LC platform. The platform provides a compression-enabled drop-in upgrade of the widely deployed NTX-Mini embedded interface.
