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"EPIX, Inc. is a privately held company founded in 1983. From its inception, the mission of the company has been to manufacture and provide cost-effective solutions to customers with demanding requirements for video acquisition, image processing, analysis, and display."

"EPIX serves the needs of its customers with off-the-shelf hardware and software, as well as customized products and superior technical support. An engineering oriented company, over 75% of EPIX employees hold technical or engineering degrees."

"EPIX hardware products are board-level subsystems for PC bus compatible computers.  The products are unique in their ability to acquire images from a wide variety of nonstandard video sources, in addition to standard formats such as RS-170 and CCIR.  Devices that produce nonstandard video formats include line scan cameras, high-resolution cameras, or high frame-rate area scan cameras, and medical imaging equipment."

"Images acquired from analog video sources are digitized with an analog-to-digital converter and stored in memory as an array representing the intensity (brightness) of each point ( "pixel" ) within the image. The dimensions of the pixel array define the "resolution" of the image. Unlike typical board-level imaging products, which constrain image resolution to conform with common video or memory sizes, EPIX products allow image resolution to be altered to conform to the image source."

"In addition to flexible video acquisition and storage, some EPIX products offer the ability to accelerate computation-intensive image processing algorithms with on-board digital signal processors, or allow extended image sequence capture with additional image memory."

"EPIX provides software products for end-user and OEM applications. Off-the-selfmenu-driven, interactive programs allow immediate and convenient image analysis and enhancement. "C" libraries and drivers provide OEM's with the tools needed to create custom application programs. EPIX can develop custom image processing and analysis routines for specific OEM applications."