The Sanyo VCC-HD4000P was awarded the top prize of CCTV Product of the Year at IFSEC 2009 – click the image for further information about this 4 megapixel CCTV camera …

VCC-HD4000P Full High Definition (1920×1080p) Network Camera

The SANYO VCC-HDN4000P is a full High Definition (HD) network camera equipped with the world’s first 4 million pixel lens which has been matched with a 4 million pixel progressive scan sensor to deliver incredibly sharp, crystal clear images.

A built-in 10 x optical zoom makes the VCC-HDN4000P an ideal solution for banking and retail environments or indeed an application where there is a requirement for close up detail of any activity.

The VCC-HDN4000P further capitalizes on advances in technology by the dual streaming of H.264 and JPEG, enabling simultaneous high definition recording and real time H.264 live monitoring across a network. An HDMI output allows the full quality of the camera’s images to be observed on an HD monitor, whilst there is an option to display the video onto an analogue monitor at a remarkable 680 TV lines.

On-board recording is via the camera’s SD/SDHC memory card or via USB onto an external hard drive. Other key features include motion detection, privacy masking, automatic transmission/email of images upon alarm and Power over Ethernet support, whilst a 16 x digital zoom provides the VCC-HDN4000P with a combined 160 x zoom capability.

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HD Network Camera delivering 180° seven megapixel images!

We found this over at Geek.com:

The D7 is a 7 megapixel camera capable of processing 100 megapixels of information per second. It also doesn’t have just one lens, instead incorporating 5 separate lenses allowing for a full 180-degree capture at 15fps.

As well as the high resolution capture, the camera doesn’t need a connection to a power point as it is powered over Ethernet. That means with a single cable you can have a very wide-angled security camera capturing HD footage.

Great for wide-angle CCTV surveillance!

Scallop’s Press Release says:

A single 180° Digital Window camera feeding into one DVR port can replace multiple conventional cameras for most security applications, enabling significant cost savings and faster ROI upon deployment. Customers benefit from an extraordinary increase in capability, at lower cost and lower bandwidth requirements than present IP camera solutions. The Digital Window camera delivers a down-sampled 180° situational awareness view simultaneously with a full resolution zoom window.

Digital Window also offers:
• Excellent facial recognition, in place of existing wide angle solutions that produce only a blur;
• Instant pan and zoom, with no camera movement;
• No fisheye distortion or blind spots;
• paired units can provide a 360° field of view;
• Compatible with video analytics software;
• Power over Ethernet (PoE);
• H.264 image compression; and
• 15 fps video streaming with seven megapixels of detail over standard 10/100 Ethernet networks.

Visit the Scallop Imaging website

Checkout the panoramic images with digital zooming

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Traditional CCTV security cameras provide WYSIWYG results.

WYSIWYG = What You See Is What You Get

In an era when the general public are well practised at snapping away with compact digital cameras (and even with their mobile phones), and ending up with multi-megapixel images which they can later crop, enlarge, enhance, etc. it is frustrating to capture images that you cannot improve.

The above image is captured from a fresh crime in Bolton.

It’s a good image.

The focus is good.

The subject is large.

The field of view (width of scene) is not too great.

The colour rendition seems good.

There are more images at the Lancashire News website.

You can almost see a lot of detail inside the shop.

But still the Police are unable to recognise or identify the individuals – Police are appealing for anybody who might recognise the men in the pictures:

I would appeal to anyone who recognises the clothing

If you’d captured these stills with your multi-megapixel compact digital hand-held point & shoot camera you’d just zoom-in to the captured image and reveal their faces, but with traditional CCTV (even if it’s recorded on a hard disc based digital video recorder DVR) there is no more detail to be had.

What you see is what was captured and recorded.

Zooming-in will just move the limited number of pixels apart.

Scotland Yard could do no more with it.

There is no ‘more’.

The best traditional CCTV security cameras can deliver a maximum of only 0.4 megapixels.

Very often only 50% of that original maximum image quality is actually recorded.

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Megapixel resolution – what do we mean by megapixel?

Before network IP CCTV cameras came along the resolution of traditional analogue CCTV cameras (connected by co-ax) was measured in TeleVision Lines (TVL).

This TVL parameter indicated that if you ran your finger horizontally across a CCTV image this would be the number of vertical lines that you would be able to resolve. Obviously, the higher the number the greater the level of detail indicated.

The highest specification analogue colour CCTV cameras currently available can resolve to 540-560 TVL. Monochrome (black & white) analogue CCTV cameras perform slightly better and the best will claim somewhere around 620TVL.

Just to put these analogue TVL figures in perspective with the current IP camera performance – 540TVL is equivalent to 0.4 Megapixels.

Pixels is a term of resolution used commonly in the IT world. Computer monitors will have their resolution specified by means of a horizontal and a vertical pixel resolution e.g. 1440 x 900 pixels.

Digital still cameras also express their resolution capability in terms of pixels, of course nowadays these too all deliver megapixel images.

A typical megapixel IP CCTV camera might have a resolution specification of 1920 x 1080 pixels.

If you multiply the horizontal (1920) by the vertical (1080) pixels you get a total pixel count of 2,073,600 pixels.

This value may also be expressed as 2.073 Megapixels (Mega equals millions).

It is interesting to note that the co-ax connected analogue CCTV camera has been stuck at or below the current glass ceiling of 560TVL for about the past five years.

In an era when you can readily purchase a mobile phone with a built-in 8 megapixel camera, why would anybody install a security imaging solution based upon co-ax which is unlikely to ever exceed 1/20th of the performance of a mobile phone?

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We’ve just added ACTi’s megapixel dome camera (ACM-7411) and bullet camera (ACM-1231) into our webshop.

They’re offering FREE recording software (NVR Enterprise) for use with up to 16 cameras – if you’re looking for a new IP camera system for a home or small business requirement this could be a real deal-maker!!!

Please click the hyperlinks above to visit the product pages on our website. There’s a datasheet for each product which you can download from the datasheet link on each product page.

If you have any queries on the ACTi products, or perhaps Application Queries about how to use these or any other IP Video products, then please drop by our IP CCTV Forum and add your questions there, don’t be shy, it’s free to ask and we won’t bite ……

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