NEC intros super-resolution ASSP with LVDS interface for digital TVs and PC monitors

KAWASAKI, JAPAN; DUESSELDORF, GERMANY & SANTA CLARA, USA: NEC Electronics has announced its new super-resolution application-specific standard product (ASSP), the µPD9281GC.

The ASSP addresses the dramatic divergence between yesterday’s image resolution and the high resolution of today’s audio-visual (AV) display systems, and supports the low-voltage differential signaling (LVDS) interface, a technology extensively adopted in broad ranges of flat panel displays, projectors for digital TVs (DTVs) and PC monitors.

For recent models of flat panel displays and projectors, higher screen resolution is essential to the specification of products with premium display quality. However, the rapid development of today's high-performance digital audio/visual (AV) devices has left consumers with the challenge of how to view low-resolution images on their new high-definition (HD) electronic products.

For example, 1920 x 1080-pixel HD TVs have six times the resolution compared to the 720 x 480-pixel standard-definition (SD) image data, which results in blurred images. Although many image-enhancement technologies have been developed to process low-resolution image data into full HD images, designers, using traditional solutions, require large-capacity external memory devices and high-performance computational engines, as well as facing other challenges, to achieve real-time processing for vivid moving images.

To solve these problems, NEC Electronics and NEC Central Research Laboratories jointly developed a new technology that enables very high-resolution processing with just one frame of image data. NEC Electronics has been releasing super-resolution ASSPs based on this new technology since November 2008.

The company has named its super-resolution ASSP lineup the “NeoClearResolution (Bikaizo)” and now offers the new µPD9281GC NeoClearResolution ASSP with LVDS interface.