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Common security camera problems for ATMs include:

Lack of detail, particularly of faces, in high-contrast or backlit conditions
Glare from windows obliterates or distorts images
Common image artifacts such as vertical smear and pixel blooming distort pictures
Color inaccuracies in varying lighting conditions
Low-quality DVR recordings

Pixim’s Digital Pixel System® ultra-wide dynamic range technology, a true breakthrough in imaging technology, delivers unprecedented image quality in all lighting conditions. Cameras powered by Pixim’s specialized image processing chipsets can significantly enhance ATM security through the following capabilities:

Widest dynamic range: Captures highlight and shadow detail - including faces in strong backlight - in the same scene.
Highest total resolution: Makes it easy to distinguish target image features and details, even in highly variable lighting conditions.
Superior color rendering: Accurately displays color even in difficult lighting such as indoor/outdoor, glare, and fluorescent lighting.
No "camera blindness": Eliminates the vertical smear, pixel blooming, and other image artifacts commonly encountered in high-contrast scenes.
High image compression: Improves image quality with smaller file size - allowing DVRs to record with higher frame rate or higher resolution, or both, while maintaining the same total recording time.

More About Pixim and DVRs

Pixim, compared with CCD technology, enables the higher compression of images taken by security cameras, which leads to advantages for DVRs:

Allows the use of higher-resolution settings on the DVR without sacrificing the overall recording time (i.e., # days on a DVR).
Enables more frames per second to be written on the DVR without sacrificing overall recording time (i.e., # days on a DVR) or resolution.
Permits the connection of more cameras to each DVR, without sacrificing resolution or frame rate.
Provides recordings with higher image quality, for more accurate identification of people and events and more compelling evidence.
Makes it easier to comply with FBI and other regulations that require storage of 10 to 30 days' worth of video - without sacrificing resolution, lowering the frame rate, or reducing the number of cameras connected to each DVR.
Optimizes the investment in expensive DVRs.

Pixim’s ultra-wide dynamic range, high total resolution, excellent color rendering, and avoidance of blooming and smearing enable ATM security cameras to capture detail from both the darkest and lightest ranges of a scene simultaneously. This means that the camera can see facial details of people entirely in the shadow of the ATM machine, or backlit by strong glare, or standing a bit further back in bright sunlight.

As a result, the images captured by Pixim-Powered security cameras can help identify suspects and can be used as evidence to prosecute criminals. ATM machines become safer places for transactions, and financial institutions and other ATM owners can optimize their revenues from these convenient machines.


CCD	Pixim
Significant loss of information in strong backlight	Superior image quality despite harsh lighting

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September/October 2008