News Release

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Bonnie Pietragallo
Sales & Marketing Communications Manager

(Billerica, MA April 1998) – MuTech Corporation, is a leading manufacturer of high accuracy, high quality, leading edge video capture products for machine/industrial vision, robot vision, medical imaging, image analysis and more. MuTech is pleased to announce the Image/VGA 450 Pro, the latest addition to the Image/VGA 400 series.

The Image/VGA 450 Pro is a low cost single slot, advanced integrated frame grabber and 64-bit 3D accelerated VGA display controller based on the S3 Virge chip. High quality video images can be digitized and displayed in real time inside a resizable video window on the computer’s VGA monitor. Display resolutions range from 640 x 480 up to 1024 x 768 with pixel depths from 8 bits to 24 bits. A variety of inputs can be selected from video sources including RS-170, S-Video, NTSC and PAL. Digitized images are displayed as live, scaleable, video in a window. Text and graphics can be written into the VGA memory and, using a color key, overlayed non-destructively on top of live video. Chroma key is supported so that a background can be underlaid behind the video scene.

The Image/VGA 450 Pro can accept a external event trigger, generating a general purpose strobe signal to control the exposure/integration of the camera, and receive a grab trigger for capturing single or multiple frames of video. External clock sync, horizontal and vertical sync, and pixel clock can be selected for higher quality video capture.

A software developers kit is available for DOS, Window 3.x, Windows 95 and Windows NT. The SDK allows the user to incorporate live video, video capture, and non-destructive overlays.

List price for the Image/VGA 450 Pro is $900.00. OEM quantity discounts available.