High-end printers and document management systems can benefit from Aspex’s scalable, software-defined image processing platforms.
Complex image-processing requirements
Aspex’s Linedancer platforms provide a scalable ultra-high performance image processing solution for implementation of the complex processing functions found in today’s high-end printing and document management systems, including:
- Dithering
- Halftoning
- Image scaling and rotation
- Colour space conversion
- Colour correction
- JPEG and JPEG-2000 compression
- Optical Character Recognition
- Automatic image correction
Scalable print engine
Multiple Linedancer chips can be cascaded together to provide a linear performance increase, without the need for any software redevelopment.
This scalability allows a common image processing engine to be developed which can address a wide range of price:performance points.
All the performance you
need
With 8 or more print heads to control, and large, complex look-up tables for colour correction, traditional image processing architectures quickly run out of steam.
With Linedancer’s scalable architecture, the entire image processing pipeline can be accommodated in a single chip for low-cost printer engines, with a significantly faster time-to-market, reduced development cost, and greater re-use than hardware-based approaches.
Document scanning and archiving
The advanced image processing and pattern matching capabilities of Aspex’s Linedancer processors are ideal for scanning and archival of documents, providing high-speed image compression and optical character recognition (OCR) capabilities.
RIP engines
As more functionality shifts from hardware to software, printer drivers can consume significant amounts of processing power, even on the latest PC platforms.
Aspex’s embedded Linedancer solutions are ideal for implementing standalone, accelerated Raster Image Processing engines to reduce the load on the application platform.
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