Select your bandwidth, image size, frame rate, chose between black and white, Sculpture™ or color video on the fly using our exclusive PipeManager™ feature.
Ominipresent and Ubiquitous video/audio communication, visually and verbally calling anyone at anywhere anytime on any device might be the ultimate goal of Software by iPixCel . As MPEG and H.263, H.264 based full-color videos and audio fabrics are unable to interact with low bandwidth and highly fluctuating network conditions, we offer a Sculpture™/Black&White/fullcolor video combination compression and decompression scheme, encapsulated within a modern multi layered codec to realize video communication in the whole range of bandwidth conditions.
Based on our solution, Sculpture™ video works at below 56 Kbps bandwidth range and full-color video works at over 33.6 Kbps bandwidth range if used with any wiresless networks such as BGAN, CDMA, GSM or Wifi. The overlapped bandwidth range 33.6-56 Kbps is used to smoothly switch between Sculpture, Black & white and full-color videos .
A bandwidth estimation/probing of wireless state's algorithm is applied to normal Sculpture™ or full color video status for rate control, therefore offering a superior wireless bandwidth manager for Inmarsat BGAN, Sprint and Verizon CDMA or HSPDA and GSM networks. A special bandwidth capability probing algorithm also is designed to determine the switch of Sculpture™ and full-color videos. Field test and numerous experiments proves that this scheme worked well on video communication systems that ran on PCs, handheld PCs and palm-size PCs.
Currently no other known video audio communications solution can operate in low bandwidth range and deliver a solution.
iSnapMe© self portrait mirror works great with XDA O2 Atom Pocket PC . The images are shown with permissions from www.isnapme.com website.
Independent overview, testing and evaluation of ChaserView software by SatellitePhoneStor of Sarasota, Florida, USA
learn more about ChaserView software
Benefits of ChaserView software - short version
reduce cost of doing business
If using BGAN network as a way communications from remote, you are familiar with cost of the air time associated with few minutes of network access. ChaserView solution has built in scalable bandwidth manager to cap the bandwidth use limited to your need. Our customers reporting tremendous savings using the PDA hand held solution when needing to video audio conference over BGAN without any loss of quality.
increase revenue and productivity
If your mission critical application needing real time visual communications from remote, compare our ultra portable hand held video conferencing solution with other high end solutions needing large bandwidth and lots of equipment to haul around. Use ChaserView PDA hand held conferencing to call another BGAN user or contact another PDA attached to cell phone networks.
stay GREEN
Conduct your business meeting using an ultra portable hand held, avoid air travel for face to face business meetings, inspection of your remote site. Use ChaserView hand held as a personal communications device for face to face meetings.
computational cost
Using ChaserView hand held conferencing, the cost of doing business is dramatically less than using your high end conferencing solution.
privacy
ChaserView solution uses a direct connection from BGAN to BGAN or BGAN to Cell phone, no intermediary servers, no intercept and no routing. Just direct point to pint video/audio calls.
scalability
If using the expensive BGAN network, you can now scale the bandwidth to a desired limit. No other video conferencing solution to date offer a granular, scalable way of video/audio conferencing as ChaserView.
detailed overview
Software by iPixCel, LLC has developed ChaserView™ software, a Microsoft Mobile OS compatible software technology for optimizing and enhancing the performance, interaction, and interoperability of video and audio communication on certain mobile devices when used over wireless networks such as Inmarsat BGAN. Currently we only support a select list of hand held devices equipped with Microsoft Mobile operation system. To learm more about current offering of our technology, please go here
When a handheld mobile user encounters fluctuating wireless bandwidth while using ChaserView™ mobile software, they will experience a robust low latency 2-way video conferencing session which will render clearer shape, smoother motion, lower latency , and much cheaper computational cost than conventional video technologies such as H.264, MPEG, or other proprietary hardware based solutions. Using a built-in bandwidth manager, ChaserView™ micro manages the bandwidth so it will not exceed a predetermined limit. For example when used with expensive Inmarsat BGAN network, user can dramatically reduce the BGAN bandwidth consumption by using an automated micro management of bandwidth, no other video conference software or hardware is capable of offering this exclusive feature. Other products such as StreamBox©, LiveWire©, Skype®, Google Video®, and other major industry offerings are not equipped with this feature, the result being large computational expenses because the user is forced to buy unnecessary chunks of bandwidths.
ChaserView™ solution is integrated with BGAN and cellular networks on Pocket PCs, Handheld PCs, and Smart Phones equipped with Microsoft Mobile OS. It runs on WiFi, GSM, GPRS, CDMA, GAN, BGAN, and other wireless networks with bandwidths as low as 9.6 kilobits/second (Kbps). ChaserView™ - on the fly - evaluates the current network speed and displays the smoothest and most detailed video while rendering a low latency 2-way video conference. For example, if used with BGAN network, although broadband global area network (BGAN) is a robust wireless network capable of reaching speeds of up to 492 kilobits/second, the background IP capabilities of BGAN possess fluctuating characteristics and may render a sub-standard video conferencing experience if using conventional and consumer based codecs. Built-in with the ChaserView™ codec software are Black and White, Sculpture™, and full color modes which are interchangeable in an automated fashion, based on available bandwidth at any given instance in time.
The continuous interrogation and micro management of available wireless bandwidth will result in countering the effects of bandwidth fluctuation and consumption, therefore presenting superior duplex video and audio experience using hand held devices while lowering the computational expenses of bandwidth. Other satellite and cellular based networks also exhibit similar fluctuations and the ChaserView™ codec offers a practical and suitable compression and decompression solution when used on their networks. If used with inexpensive wireless networks such as Sprint and Verizon CDMA, GPRS, AT&T HSPDA and other global wireless networks, the bandwidth spectrum varies vastly within different geographic areas, therefore introducing fluctuating conditions where consumer products were not designed to respond to these modulating effects.
ChaserView™ highly emphasizes the fact that in a 2-way video and audio communication, facial expressions represented by the motions of the outlines of the face, eyes, eyebrows and mouth deliver more information than the basic colors of the face. Since the representation of outlines needs only two types of colors ChaserView™ runs a video format (fabric) in which each pixel is represented by only 1 bit (Black and White).
The ChaserView™ software is especially suitable for small mobile devices such as Pocket-PCs, hand held PCs, and mobile phones that possess small display screens and light computational power and that are used with wireless satellite networks possessing limited or fluctuating bandwidths. If higher bandwidth is available such as BGAN Streaming class, ChaserView™ automatically switches to full color video or it downgrades the bandwidth consumption by shifting its fabric to a suitable rendition of video in Black and White. It also employs our innovative Sculpture™ video, a unique video “skin” capable of displaying a few primary colors and displaying the majority of the color index while rendering the video frames. SCULPTURE™ video can also preserve the most important outline of facial structure, objects within camera scope and improves the overall visual quality of video while keeping the bit rate very low. If the available bandwidth is more than 30 Kbps, full-color video can provide higher visual quality. Users can now experience an acceptable video conferencing experience with as low as 9600 baud, a major breakthrough in hand held wireless video conferencing technology.
Skype, Google Video Chat and other free and paid services
Although the above products are free to download, install and use, they lack few key elements which are not helpful with computational costs, privacy issues, scalabilty and lack of any robust mobile application support.
. computational cost may be a very serious issue when you intend to use a free video service over Inmarsat BGAN. Skpe and Google Video Chat both are seeking more bandwidth while attached to land lines therefore continuously attempting to utilize more bandwidth or use the attached node as a bandwidth sharing port to help other nodes with more available resources. Although the Skpe and Google Chat are sophisticated audio video conferencing tools for the masses, if used with the expensive BGAN airways will result in unpredictable expenses and subject to disruptions, freeze and connection loss or other unpredictable results. (we have tested these free video services).
ChaserView Mobile application designed for Inmarsat BGAN network which is an expensive globally available network employing a granular, micro managed option to reduce video communication costs while maintaining a stable connection between 2 parties.
. privacy issues may be a very serious issue when you intend to use free video and audio services over public airways. Assuming the above connection problems are fully resolved and expenditures of using the free audio services are not of any importance, then will you trust your mission critical project to a public server distribution platform where the signal may potentially intercepted or simply directed to an audience not intended?. ChaserView using ONLY a direct connect methodology bypassing any public transport or server intercept ensuring a private and direct line of connection between the 2 users.
.
scalability (in this case reffered to bandwidth management) topic is an issue which average computer users may overlook. The word scalable means
the ability for a technology to accept sudden increase or decrease of a "pre set or pre defined volume" without impacting the contribution margin, output quality or denial of service. Although the concept sounds complicated - in the real world applications exchanging real time video and audio packets over highly swinging wireless bandwidth - it can play the single most important role in denial of service or resulting in poor audio video exchange in real time.
ChaserView software architecture - from ground up - designed on the basis of micro management of bandwidth and counter effecting the sudden - uncontrollable - increase and decrease with the wireless connections
. mobile applications support may be an an issue with requirements for portability and ease of use when compared to transporting note books, PCs or dedicated hardware. It is generally agreed that using a modern PDA or Smart Phone can help with business activities. If video conferencing is one activity which enhances your business and or has a direct impact on your sales, then you must consider a mobile video conferencing application suitable to do the job right. Currently neither Skpe nor Google Video Chat offer any mobile device compatible conferencing with scalable bandwidth option, multi layered video fabric and direct connection between to parties. ChaserView is a 2 way video conferencing software supporting Microsoft Mobile OS.
