Digital View further enhances advanced

High Definition LCD controller

A new text overlay feature from Digital View enables real-time, on-screen text labels to be overlaid on live video displays

London, 22 November 2007. Digital View (www.digitalview.com) has further enhanced its SVH-1920 advanced High Definition LCD controller by adding a text overlay feature that merges video and text on a single display. The new feature can be used to significantly enhance a variety of applications.

In teleconferencing applications, for example, the text overlay feature can be used to show real-time information such as remaining time and location updates. In video production, it can display active camera numbers, or whatever data is required. Medical instrumentation displays can use text overlay to display a wide range of critical real-time patient information. Security displays can use it to show active camera area and other parameters and, for military applications, text overlay can provide live, continually updated targeting information for weapons management.

Text sequences are delivered via the controller serial port and can be overlaid on up to four separate lines at the bottom of the screen. Utilising Digital View's proprietary Serial Port Protocol (SPP), this feature enables the SVH-1920 controller to receive text strings of up to 40 characters and display them in fixed locations at the bottom of the LCD screen. Text strings can be sent to individual lines, along with horizontal positioning commands, line or screen erasure and selectable background transparency.

The text overlay capability can be customised to provide specific formats or features for OEM customers. Digital View also offers a downloadable Windows-based utility program - available at http://www.digitalview.com/controllers/support.php - enabling developers to create demonstrations and simulations of the text overlay feature.

The text overlay feature is supported on Digital View SVH-1920 controllers equipped with firmware revision V0.31or later.

SVH-1920 controllers with text overlay are shipping now. Delivery is off-the-shelf.

About Digital View

Established in 1995, Digital View Group (www.digitalview.com) is one of the world's foremost suppliers of advanced interface solutions for the LCD display market, and a world leader in the supply of retail video promotion and digital signage solutions. The company develops display electronics products and services used in demanding specialist applications, with expertise in delivering digital media networks in retail and other commercial environments.. Digital View is based in London, Hong Kong, and Morgan Hill, Calif.

For more information, please contact:
Neil Wood at Digital View in USA, T +1 (408) 782 7773, sales@digitalview.com
Richard Cobbold in United Kingdom, T +44 (0)20-7631 215
James Henry at Digital View in Hong Kong, T +852-3861 3615, jhenry@digitalview.com