to the company.
Ittiam's IPVP6446 videophone design touts offers high quality H.264 based video, a complete range of speech codecs, telephony and call signaling functions tuned for hands-free speaker phone operation, and peer-to-peer and multi-way conferencing. Target applications include standalone IP videophones for home and enterprise applications, and video conferencing systems.
Features and specifications claimed for the videophone software include:
- Supports multiple video coding standards at 30 fps:
- H.264 -- VGA resolution
- H.263 and MPEG4 -- D1 resolution
- Multi-way video conferencing
- Full Range of speech encoders:
- Narrow band -- G.711, G.723.1A, G.729AB
- Wideband -- G.722.1
- Adaptive jitter buffer enhances video and audio quality under varying network conditions
- Telephony functions -- DTMF tone generator and detector, call progress tones generator and detector
Specifications of the hardware reference platform are said to include:
- Processor -- TMS320DM6446
- Memory -- 256 MB DDR RAM; 64 MB NAND flash; 32 MB NOR flash
- Audio/video interfaces:
- VGA LCD display (640x480)
- CCD camera module
- component and S-Video out
- RJ11 handset and headphone
- speaker, microphone, line in and line out
- SPDIF audio out
- composite video in/out ports
- Communication interfaces:
- 10/100 Base T Ethernet port
- WLAN support through VLYNQ interface
- SD/MS/MMC socket and Smart Media socket
- USB master and slave port
- System interfaces:
- keypad input -- alphanumeric and scroll keys
- IR port for remote control support
- hard disk interface
- touch screen
- PS/2 keyboard
- UART and JTAG ports for debugging
CEO Srini Rajam stated, "For an emerging technology like video phone, it is very important for us to be able to give our customers the freedom to introduce it in different forms and application scenarios. CE 6.0 literally opens up windows to achieve exactly the same and offers tremendous flexibility of doing so."
Ittiam says it has already licensed the IPVP6446 on Windows Embedded CE 6.0 for an "innovative video phone application" and is in "active discussion" with several other OEMs and ODMs (original equipment/design manufacturers).
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