2nd Inventors' Olympiad - GENIUS 2000 Budapest, Virtual Exhibition

Registry number: G/2-088 Category: G/2 Country: Hungary
Home Video Security System with IBM compatible computer and VHS video recorder
The invention
  • The problem to be solved:
    1. Online software compression of a continuous motion pictures with very high compression rate. We need not any hardware card to make this process.
    2. The compressed frames and sound need huge DIGITAL storing capacity.
    We can give a cheep, secure and reusable solution to this problem, with our DIGITAL DATA STORING WITH VHS VIDEO RECORDER system.
  • Definition:
    The computer realtime compresses the captured motion picture coming from a normal or a panel camera placed in home or elsewhere and stores digitally with an ordinary VHS VCR.
  • Presentation:
    The recorded motion pictures can be replayed and processed at least three years. The cassettes can be reused more than 100 times.
    • Technical parameters
      Quality of stored frames:
      Resolution : 320*240 pixels (adjustable), 16 gray shades (adjustable, colour frames may also be recordable), 64 gray shades during replay.
      Frames/sec: 6 (adjustable)
      Sound: 4-8 bit, 8 KHz (adjustable, optional)
      Performance: About 4-7 days of continuous frames in one 240' VHS casette. The VCR works only four hours in one week.
    • System requirements:
      IBM PC compatible computer with Celeron 400 MHz or higher CPU, and 32 Mbyte RAM Windows 9x or NT. 1 GByte free disk space, an ordinary frame grabber card.
      our NEXTREAM card for handling the VCR (read/write data, remote control)
      an ordinary (PAL or NTSC) VHS Video recorder.
      an ordinary (PAL or NTSC) (panel)camera.

 

  • Application:
    With this system your home will be safetier in your home.
    This system can store any visible motions night and day.
  • Advantages:
    You don't need any expensive hardware equipment.
    The main items of this system are already in households (VCR, IBM-PC compatible computer).
    VIDEO TAPE is the cheepest reuseable Media to store huge quantity of DIGITAL data (cost of 100 Gigabyte is approximately $60).
  • Stage of development:
    First version is available.
  • Documentation available:
    Yes, Word DOC FILE available; Demo version available
The inventor(s)
  • Name(s): Pál APATOCZKY, Gyula HUNDZSA, Attila EKE
  • Self introduction:
    Pal Apatoczky: teacher of mathematics, physics and computer science
    Gyula Hundzsa: teacher of mathematics and physics
    Attila Eke: electrical engineer
The protection
  • Form: Patent pending
  • Priority:
  • Countries where it is force: Hungary
Business intention: We are looking for dealers, resellers and investors.
Contact
  • Name: Pal Apatoczky (English language), Gyula Hundzsa (German language)
  • E-mail: pvec@freemail.hu (Pal Apatoczky), Hundzsa2@freemail.hu (Gyula Hundzsa)
  • Fax: + 36 1 3883 775
  • Address: MINIMAX 2000 Ltd., H-1034 BUDAPEST, Szölö u 35, HUNGARY