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The Pictron Media Gateway Suite of products consists of
Video Gateway
Pictron Video Gateway unleashes the power of searchable video revolutionizing the way video is accessed and used on the Internet and Intranets. Video Gateway automatically detects video scene changes, extracts keyframes and summarizes the
video content into a visual storyboard format. A text transcript of the video is extracted from closed caption text or speech recognition (Audio Gateway) to provide full text search capabilities. Video Gateway can further encode multiple video
streams in Real, Microsoft, or MPEG formats during real-time video indexing with perfect synchronization. Video attributes, annotations, and metadata are cataloged automatically into the database. All of this information is synchronized through the
SMPTE time code of the digitized video. Video Gateway derives a structured visual storyboard and indexes information from unstructured content to produce a highly interactive, searchable video.
Video Gateway provides a cost-effective video logging and indexing system in an integrated Microsoft Windows environment. It is tightly integrated with industry standard SQL servers, text index servers, video servers, and Web servers with
unparalleled scalability. Users can search and browse video clips using standard Internet browsers or integrated Video Gateway client software.
Video Gateway Features
Video Source and Video Capture
- Real-time video analysis from live video sources or digital files
- Viewcast Osprey video capture card or Microsoft Video for Windows compatible capture card support
- Optibase MovieMaker MPEG video capture card support
- Acceptable video file formats – AVI, MPEG-2, MPEG-1, Windows Media (asf, wmv), RealVideo (rm), QuickTime (mov)
- Frame-accurate VTR deck control through Sony RS-422 protocol
Video Encoding and Transcoding
- Simultaneous real-time encoding of multiple formats and multiple streams in MPEG, AVI, Windows Media, and RealNetworks
- Real-time transcoding of supported video streaming file formats
Video Logging and Analysis
- Intelligent scene change detection and keyframe image extraction
- Adaptive keyframe extraction with adjustable sensitivity
- Automatic scene change detection, fixed time interval, or manual keyframe extraction
- Visual storyboard for video browsing and video clip annotation
- Drag and drop keyframes from visual storyboard for video logging
- Closed caption text extraction from source video
- Frame-accurate video navigation
- Synchronized playback of video, closed caption text, speech text, and keyframes
- Optional speech recognition (Audio Gateway) and face recognition (Image Gateway) plug-in modules
Media Asset Management
- Hierarchical data structure to organize media assets into Library, Video, and Clip
- Video browsing in thumbnail, list, and detail views with visual storyboard, speech text, database attributes, and face information
- Video playback in native media players (MPEG, Windows Media, RealNetworks, Quicktime)
Database Support
- Built-in database
- ODBC-compliant database support (Oracle, Microsoft SQL, Microsoft Access, MySQL)
- End user customizable database schema for video and clip
Distribution
- Publish indexed video to Media Gateway Search Server
- Distributed architecture for distributed web server, database server, and video server
- FTP support for video streams and metedata distribution
- Export metadata in XML format
Developer Toolkit SDK
- Automation SDK to control Video Gateway from remote applications
- Metadata SDK to access Video Gateway database information
- XML export format support for service integration
Minimum System Requirements
- Windows 2000 Professional or Server
- 600 MHz Pentium III
- 128 MB RAM
- 30 MB Disk Space
Optional System Components
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Video Capture Hardware
- Microsoft Video for Windows or DirectShow compatible video capture cards or cameras
- Viewcast Osprey Video Capture Card
- Optibase MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 encoders
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Text Capture Options
- Viewcast Osprey Video Capture Card
- Closed Caption Text Decoder
- Integrated speech recognition software (Audio Gateway)
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Video Server
- Microsoft Windows Media Video Server
- RealNetworks RealServer
- Apple QuickTime Video Server
- Infovalue MPEG Video Server
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Database Software (ODBC Compliant)
- Microsoft SQL Server
- Oracle
- MySQL
- Microsoft Access
Audio Gateway
Pictron Audio Gateway is fully integrated into the Pictron Media Gateway Suite. It automatically analyzes the audio track of a video to segment audio signals into speech and non-speech elements. Using advanced speaker-independent speech
recognition technology, Audio Gateway converts audio signals into a searchable text transcript, in real-time, without the tedious training process for individual speakers; thus, eliminating the labor-intensive manual process of annotating text and later
synchronizing it with the digitized video. Audio Gateway can further identify individual speakers and associate recognized text to a particular speaker. This powerful tool significantly enhances corporate communication and training, distance
learning, media archive and the Internet experience.
Audio Gateway Features
- Real-time speaker-independent speech recognition
- Support multiple languages - English, Japanese, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Chinese, and others
- Plug-in module running inside Video Gateway with integrated GUI
- Support live capture or digital files in AVI, MPEG-2, MPEG-1, Windows Media, RealVideo, and QuickTime
- SMPTE time code synchronization for speech transcript and video
- Full text editor with time code control to correct speech recognition errors if necessary
- Export and import speech transcript in XML format
Minimum System Requirements
- Windows 2000 Professional or Server
- 600 MHz Pentium III
- 128 MB RAM
- 30 MB Disk Space
- Audio card (Sound Blaster recommeded)
- Video Gateway software
Image Gateway
Pictron Image Gateway provides advanced visual recognition functions by extracting image features such as color, texture, and shape, and object features such as human faces, title text, and user-defined objects from video streams in real-time. The Face
Recognition and Video OCR (on-screen title text) modules are the first in a set, available from Pictron and its partners. Using Pictron's proprietary visual recognition technology, Image Gateway converts unstructured videos into searchable
knowledge, allowing users to search images or videos based on visual similarities, specific persons, or objects. With Pictron Image Gateway, the painstaking manual indexing process is eliminated and a new dimension is created to search video based on visual cues.
Face Recognition Module Features
- Real-time human face recognition
- Seamless integration into Video Gateway as a plug-in video analysis module with integrated GUI
- Simple face registration process to build face database with a single template image of each person
- User customizable face training and face recognition settings
- Automatic face detection and recognition
- Detect and recognize multiple persons in a single video frame
Video OCR Features
- Real-time video overlay text detection and recognition
- Seamless integration into Video Gateway as a plug-in video analysis module with integrated GUI
- No training of text recognition required
- Independent of text font, size, and color
- User customizable region of interest to reduce computation load and increase accuracy
- Recognize dark text or inverted text independent of background
Minimum System Requirements
- Windows 2000 Professional or Server
- 1GHz Pentium 4 Processor to run Image Gateway by itself or Dual Pentium III (1GHz) to run Face Recognition or Video OCR with Video Gateway and/or Audio Gateway
- 128 MB RAM
- 30 MB Disk Space
- Video Gateway Software
Media Gateway Search Server
Pictron Media Gateway Search Server is a complete web application allowing Internet users to search for and interact with video using standard web browsers. Web surfers, corporate gurus, or anyone interested in the power of video can search clips
based on text, visual content, or database information. Results are ranked by relevance with representative video frame, text transcript, visual storyboard, and database attributes displayed. Users can browse the visual storyboard and navigate
to specific video clip locations by specifying the key frame or text transcript line. Site owners can further customize the search template, search results, and video player layout to match their own applications.
Media Gateway Search Server Features
- Support multiple accounts and each account administrator can create new users
- Predefined user access privileges and user customizable privileges
- Search for relevant video clips based on keywords or database
- Integrated text search engine provides natural language or free text search of video text transcript
- Built-in database for workgroup usage
- Support ODBC-compliant database (Oracle, Microsoft SQL, Microsoft Access, MySQL)
- Support Microsoft Windows Media Video Server, RealNetworks Server, Apple QuickTime Server, Infovalue MPEG Video Server
- Template-based approach suitable for end user customization of web site look and feel
- Standard video search template pages provide an attractive look and fastdeployment
- Customizable video search pages provide a seamless integration of searchable video into user’s own web sites
- Customizable video player window offers synchronized key frame and text transcripts
- Customizable video player window enhances targeted advertising and ecommerce opportunities
- Distributed architecture for distributed web server, database server, and video server
- Full server-side source code available for application-specific customization
- Application specific plug-in modules for video production, multimedia presentation, and video publishing
Minimum System Requirements
- Windows 2000 Server or Advanced Server
- Microsoft IIS Web Server
- 600 MHz Pentium III
- 256 MB RAM
- 30 MB Disk Space
Media Gateway Presenter
Media Gateway Presenter enables corporations to schedule, create, and manage interactive live webcast and on-demand rich-media presentations. Media Gateway Presenter is an add-on module in Media Gateway Suite to make it easy to capture
and synchronize Powerpoint slides, images, and HTML pages to video to create engaging rich-media presentations. Immediately after the live event, all the presentations are automatically indexed and published into an interactive and searchable on-demand content.
Minimum Client System Requirements
- Windows 2000 or XP with Microsoft PowerPoint
- 600 MHz Pentium III
- 128 MB RAM
- 30 MB Disk Space
Minimum Server System Requirements
- Windows 2000 Server with Media Gateway Search Server
- 600 MHz Pentium III
- 256 MB RAM
- 30 MB Disk Space
Media Gateway Director
Pictron Media Gateway Director provides centralized, automated, remote control of multiple Media Gateway applications over scheduled times, tasks and events in existing video management and production systems. By allowing simultaneous video capture, encoding and indexing with full database integration, the Director can
effectively expand your existing video cataloging system and lend greater control and process to your automation capabilities. Using the Director, operators can customize and set all control parameter settings: define data capture sources, load times, program lengths, feed sources, live capture settings, file storage information,
and monitor current system status. Control the workflow from a single point with Media Gateway Director and let your video soar down the Internet runway.
Minimum System Requirements
- Windows 2000 Professional or Server
- 600 MHz Pentium III
- 128 MB RAM
- 30 MB Disk Space
- Video Gateway software installed on local or remote machine to be controlled by Media Gateway Director
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