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Sewage pipe - inverted lyynification selection window

LYYN Hawk Portable and the latest software revision of LYYN Hawk Board has a new feature: inverted lyynification window.

This new feature comes as a request from the inpipe inspection business, but can of course be usefull in many applications.

The reasoning behind the feature and how it works.

The whole idea behind the selection window is that there in certain situations might be very high contrast, color or visual disturbance differences across the image. You position the lyynification window where you want the enhancement, without having the rest of the image influencing the automatic optimization process.

Usually you enhance the center of the image even though you can position the enhancement window on the corners or sides of the image. When performing inpipe inspections you are usually more interested in the edges of the image than the center. The image has extremely high contrast with the center of the image being very distant and pitch dark while you inspect the walls of the pipe.

This example shows the difference (even though it has dark walls and very bright center):

How to control the Inverted Window:

In LYYN Hawk Portable this feature is only accessible through the serial interface (RS232 port for computer control). There are no manual controls, buttons or knobs for this feature.

In LYYN Hawk Board Integration Kit you can access this new feature either on the serial control interface or the touch control pad. By pressing and holding the “+” button while pressing the window button you toggle inverse on and off.

Weda is an industrial enterprise that offers solutions for cleaning underwater surfaces.

Weda Poolcleaner AB designs, builds and sells pool cleaners for swimming pools, commercial swimming facilities, water works and wastewater treatment plant with high demands on performance and reliability.

At the start of the 1970s Weda began marketing the so-called Submatic, a Switzerland-manufactured machine used to clean the bottoms of swimming pools. However, the quality was not up to standard and Weda began manufacturing its own pool cleaner.

Weda reservoir cleaner

The business has since progressed from manual pool cleaners for swimming pools via automatic pool cleaners to considerably heavier equipment for industrial use, including sedimentation basins and sand filters. In other words, Weda’s equipment is today used both in industry and to maintain high-quality swimming and drinking water.

Weda lyynified consol

Several companies can presently provide various types of surface cleaning solutions but none have Weda’s expertise or experience in handling larger projects. Weda has carried out assignments and installed equipment around the world, from Australia to the USA. Weda was for example selected to clean the swimming pools prior to the swimming events during the 2004 Olympics in Athens.

The latest addition to their product accessory list is LYYN enhanced video.

For more information please visit the Weda web site.

The clip below comes from a fresh water reservoir cleaning assignment:

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SeaViewer Cameras, Inc. manufactures a line of self-housed underwater cameras that stream their video signal to the surface for viewing in real-time. They are considered best of breed by sportfishermen, commercial and industrial users.

SeaViewer cameras are affordable but offer very powerful features which was the main reasons why SeaViewer cameras were selected by movie professionals for the filming of Discovery Channels Shark Week underwater videography series. Miramax and Universal have all come knocking and in the ocean epic “Master and commander” producers selected SeaViewer cameras to help with the safety of the divers and actors for the underwater scenes.

The SeaViewer customer base ranges from Scuba Divers, Government Agencies, Search and Recovery, ESPN, FOX studios, Discovery Channel, Universities, Power Generated Facilities, Swim Teams and Fishing.

SeaViewer’s newest line of “Surface Consoles” has become extremely popular since they feature Display, Recording, and Power accessories hand-picked by the Customer, including the new “Sea-Clear” based on LYYN technology.

For more information, contact the company directly on their website.

SeaViewer marketing video:

sea viewer from jimmy on Vimeo.

Researchers from Lund University have found increased fish activity around the bridge’s pillars, as well as plenty of other marine life, such as mussels.

It was feared the bridge would block the flow of oxygen-rich water from the North Sea into the Baltic, but the researchers say this isn’t the case.

This study was part of the project “Havsresan 2010″. Information in Swedish.

Underwater surveillance technology

Marine camera, integrated software offer improved underwater surveillance, security

Published 3 June 2010

Underwater surveillance is one of the more difficult tasks for security personnel; darkness, humidity, murkiness, low temperature all make it difficult for camera equipment to capture clear images of elements in water; a new marine camera with integrated software offers a solution.

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The innovative Lyyn Visual Enhancement Technology and integrated underwater cameras allow harbor and marine security to monitor underwater activity at harbor entrances, near oil rigs, and secure marine locations. It may be argued that had the U.S. Navy possessed such technology at Pearl Harbor, it would have been relatively easy to identify the infiltrating Japanese submarines sooner and sound a general alarm in time to scramble US defenses.

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Robert Aston, the president and founder of Santa Cruz, California-based Ocean Presence Technologies (OPT), incorporated the Lyyn technology into his company’s family of underwater cameras to create enhanced monitoring devices for tropical sea life.
An avid conservationist, Aston has been on a mission to create the MantaCam — a real-time video transmission of the movements of the manta ray, a large, bat-like fish often found in tropical waters. Aston coupled his knowledge of computer hardware and software design with his interest in underwater photography and scuba diving, to create the MantaCam, and a family of continuous underwater video monitoring systems that can be controlled over the Internet.

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“Environmentalists now have the ideal equipment needed to watch the evolution of the world’s oceans and seaways and educate the general public and government officials on the critical need to protect these precious resources,” Aston concluded.

Read the full article here

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In this video, wooden balls roll up the slopes just as if they are pulled by a magnet. The behavior of the balls seems impossible, because it is against the gravity. The video is not a computer graphic, but a real scene. What is actually happening is that the orientations of the slopes are perceived oppositely, and hence the descending motion is misinterpreted as ascending motion. This illusion is remarkable in that it is generated by a three-dimensional solid object and physical motion, instead of a two-dimensional picture.

Are you impressed?

The illusion explained

However we have had many customer discussions and they have given us some feedback on how to improve it. What they and we have come up with is now being packaged into to the upgraded T38 under the new product name LYYN Hawk Portable™. Users of LYYN T38 will recognize that it has the same lyynification processing and the same controls as the T38. There are only some minor changes like larger control knobs and video connectors on the back.

We have also added the possibility to control the unit remotely via a serial RS232 interface. The idea is that you can connect to the LYYN Hawk Portable™ from a computer or some other control device, write your own control scripts to automate and adapt the unit to your equipment and setup.

More info on the product page.