Video Design

Nuvation Engineering has video design experience within a variety of markets including broadcast, security, defense, medical, industrial and commercial. We specialize in product development for the full range of imaging and video applications including:

Image Sensors and Cameras
Image and Video Capture, Storage, and Distribution
Image and Video Processing and Analytics
Image and Video Displays

Image and Video Design Expertise

Image Sensors and Cameras

CCD, CMOS and custom image sensor technologies for applications including – wearable cameras, security, medical, defense, industrial, machine vision
Lens selection for field of view, depth of focus, distortion, sharpness, chromatic aberration
Analog front end design, timing generation, control and interfacing
Image sensor front-end processing – Pixel defect correction, de-bayering, black level correction, color correction, auto exposure, auto focus, auto white balance, 2D & 3D noise reduction, sharpness, gamma correction, hue, saturation, level adjustments
Frame grabbers, frame buffering, frame rate conversion

Image and Video Capture, Storage, and Distribution

Image and video compression – encode, decode, trans-code, storage and playback – H.264, H.265, MPEG-4, MPEG-2, MJPEG
Distribution – 10GE, 40GE, 100GE, PCIe 2/3, InfiniBand, USB3, packet inspection, Video over IP, Error correction (SMPTE2022), Timing and Synchronization (SMPTE2059)
Interfaces – HDMI, Display Port, HD-SDI, LVDS, USB3, composite, component, S-Video, SDI, MPEG-2 TS (DVB/ATSC), MIPI CSI, DVB-ASI
Nuvation Engineering has extensive video design experience in broadcast, security, defense, medical, industrial and commercial markets.
Resizing – SD, HD, 4K, custom formats
Chroma Format conversion – 4:20, 4:2:2, 4:4;4

Image and Video Processing and Analytics

Machine Vision / Image Inspection – industrial automation
Line scan and area array cameras
Registration, golden image comparison
Erodes, dilates and other 2D kernel operations
Binarization, skeletization, edge detection, blob detection
Motion detection, object recognition and tracking

Image and Video Displays

Display Technologies – LCD panels, DMDs, Projectors, LED Displays, Display Walls
Applications – digital cinema, virtual reality, medical, industrial, machine vision, advertising
Image Processing – Color format conversion, color space conversion, gamma correction, noise reduction, sharpness, geometric distortion correction (warping), black level and brightness uniformity correction, color matching, edge blending, 2D loop-up tables, watermarking