Aug 07, 2008

Pictron Media Gateway Suite

Pictron

Software Description:

The Pictron Media Gateway Suite of products consists of Video Gateway, Audio Gateway, Image Gateway, Media Gateway Search Server, Media Gateway Presenter, and Media Gateway Director.

Video Scene changes are automatically detected and representative key frames are extracted, summarizing the video content into a storyboard format that communicates the storyline in a highly effective way. Image features such as color, shape, and texture and object features such as human faces, video title text, and user-defined objects are extracted from video frames to index the visual content. A useful text transcript of the video is extracted from closed caption text or through speaker-independent speech recognition to provide synchronized full text indexing. With the useful storyboard format, a nonlinear access point for viewing video segments from any key frame is provided. Users can now quickly skim through content and search for video segments by visual cues, text content, and database information effortlessly finding key clips of interest. If you've got the video, we can lend you vivid results.

Media Gateway system architecture is tightly integrated with industry standard database, video, and web servers to provide end-to-end media search solutions. Media Gateway is the gateway to your video-centric applications such as corporate training, corporate communication, distance learning, decision support, and media asset management.

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Media Gateway Director

Pictron 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 up 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.

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Media Gateway Search Server:

Pictron 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.

Pictron Server

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Media Gateway Search Server Features:

  • Support multiple accounts and each account administrator can create new users.

  • Predefined user access privileges and user customizable priveleges.

  • Search for relevant video clips based on keywords or database fields.

  • 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 fast deployment.

  • 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 e-commerce 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.

  • Standard video search templates pages provide an attractive

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Product Specs Sheet

  • Pictron Suite
    Audio, Media, Video Gateway Indexing, Archiving, Web Access Software Suite
  • MediaServ
    Audio, Media, Video Gateway Rackmount Server