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Table of Contents 

Overview…………………………………………………  1 

System requirement……………………………………..  1 

Camera Diagram………………………………………..     1 

Hardware installation………………………………….. 

Driver installation……………………………………….  2 

Quality & Format Adjustment…………………………..  10  

Specifications…………………………………………….  11  

Appendix: 

Microphone  Installation 

Video Conference Glossary

 

 

 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 

Summary of Contents for TV-PC350

Page 1: ...TV PC350 USB Digital Video Camera User s Guide Model TV PC350 ...

Page 2: ... Contents Overview 1 System requirement 1 Camera Diagram 1 Hardware installation 2 Driver installation 2 Quality Format Adjustment 10 Specifications 11 Appendix Microphone Installation Video Conference Glossary ...

Page 3: ...mage quality you will never too late to enjoy the pleasure of video applications in your PC with this USB Digital Video Camera Following is the installation guide for running USB Digital Video Camera in Windows environment for the first time System requirement Pentium 133 or above CPU Pentium II 350 recommended 32 MB of system RAM One USB port Microsoft Windows 98 or above 20MB hard disk space Cam...

Page 4: ...start automatically once the camera has been plugged in The LED indicator of the camera will be active after the USB host controller having initiated the USB device properly Driver installation Win98 Once the camera has been installed the Windows will detect the camera and prompt Add New Hardware Wizard dialog box on the screen Click on Next button to continue ...

Page 5: ... best driver for your device And click on the Next button to search for the best driver Select the Floppy disk driver and insert the driver diskette that came with the camera into the floppy drive Then click on the Next button ...

Page 6: ...the Next button then the Windows will copy all required files from the driver diskette to system A CCDV218 INF CCD Camera Capture Click on the Finish button to complete the driver installation CCD Camera Capture ...

Page 7: ...2000 1 Boot up the computer to Win2000 and then attach the camera to computer s USB port 2 At Found New Hardware Wizard click on Next 3 Select Search for a suitable driver for my device and then click Next ...

Page 8: ...4 Select Floppy disk drives and then click on Next 5 Click Next a ccdv218 inf ...

Page 9: ...6 Click Yes 7 Click Finish ...

Page 10: ...s and Gamma Auto White Balance is not recommended to change unless the video color unstably shift To select Option Video Format allows you to set the incoming color depth as 24 bit RGB and choose image resolutions Note The higher the RGB bits the larger the video file size well be The lower resolution is recommended for video conferencing or recording video after this step the Configuration Adviso...

Page 11: ...ation Camera active Brightness control Automatic Color control Automatic Focus 4mm 8 Lens f 6mm F 2 0 Interface USB port compiles with USB version 1 1 OS support Win98 Win2000 Software control Hue saturation Gamma Operating Temperature 0 55 Storage Temperature 20 70 Humidity 10 90 non condensing Power Input 5Volt from USB port Power consumption 1 5Watts 300mA 5V Safety CE FCCClassB ...

Page 12: ... record image with voice To install the microphone just plug the microphone to the Mic in connector on the sound card of the PC The user can check the microphone by running Windows Start Menu Programs Accessories Entertainment Sound Recorder This program allows the user to do voice record and play back ...

Page 13: ... to your PC through parallel port COM port USB port Fast Ethernet or IEEE 1394 interface CCIR 601 a digital TV encoding standard defines video digitized signal in YUV 4 4 4 or YUV 4 2 2 format A corresponding driver in PC will decode and translate the data into correct color for splay Digital camera is dedicated but not limited for PC applications today The most popular interface today are paralle...

Page 14: ...low pass filter will determine the picture quality sensed The most popular lens used in PC camera market is 1 3 1 4 and 1 5 lens with 3 6 6 0 mm focal length each has their own advantages in different applications To avoid distortion on edge of image focal length above 4 0 mm is recommended Performance and resolution The performance of PC camera is determined by frame size resolution and frame per...

Page 15: ...gnal operating over one or more 64 kbps ISDN B channels H 261 defines two picture or resolution structures that are compatible with all three worldwide television display formats The picture structures are the Common Intermediate Format CIF and the Quarter Common Intermediate Format QCIF CIF is also referred to as full CIF FCIF H 323 Standard that provides a gateway for LAN WAN videoconferencing D...

Page 16: ...at of 128x96 pixels QCIF is also required in H 263 and FCIF is optional H 263 is a major breakthrough in video compression and is substantially better than H 261 at low data rates However at 384 kbps and above the difference is less apparent Work is underway in the ITU T to migrate H 263 into the H 320 family However it is mandatory that the H 324 terminal support H 261 as well as H 263 The H 324 ...

Page 17: ...ion as device changes The throughput of USB however is not sufficient for real time video transmission The recently released USB PC camera imbeds video compress decompress technology to increase the data transmission and supports 30 fps in QCIF or CIF format Video Communication Software Users can do little with PC camera and other hardware without application software Microsoft bundles NetMeeting ...

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