A retail video acquisition system
Mark D. Hansen · DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) · 1995
The retail industry offers many applications for a video capture board, such as video surveillance. To meet the demands of the industry, a video capture board must have high resolution, a universal interface, and inexpensive components. In addition, the board must have drivers and software to support it on a personal computer. This software must be easy to use and have the ability to load and store captured images. A video capture board was designed and constructed to meet these requirements. This board accepts any NTSC video signal, digitizes a single field in one pass, and transmits the video data to a personal computer via a parallel printer port. Parts for this board are commercially available and inexpensive, with an overall board cost of under $100. Software was also designed to support the board on an IBM-compatible computer running Microsoft Windows. This software provides an attractive interface to the board and has features desired for a video surveillance application, such as capturing video and storing