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Northrop Grumman Deploys Latest Video Wall Technology
Facility uses a video wall array of three 13-foot wide-by-10-foot high screens
by RGB Spectrum
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 Northrop Grumman Integrated Systems is expanding its command and control system simulation and analysis capabilities under the concept Cyber Warfare Integration Network (CWIN). The advanced CWIN facility uses a video wall array of three 13-foot wide-by- 10-foot high screens powered by RGB Spectrum's SuperView multiple window display processors to present a variety of computer and video visuals.
William Moore, Simulation Laboratories Integrated Product Team Lead for Northrop Grumman Integrated Systems, explained, "Data assessment and decision making are enhanced by the display of information from multiple sources. Presenting images across multiple high resolution screens enhances the flow of information, improves communications, and results in faster, more effective decision making. We required a solution that provided real time, constantly updated displays and was able to bring together multiple, disparate sources and display them simultaneously on large screens."
Northrop Grumman's advanced Cyber Warfare Integration Network Command Center uses RGB Spectrum's SuperView multiple window processors to present complex information in a useful way for decision makers.
Northrop Grumman utilized the services of audio visual systems integrator Ford Audio-Video to design and install this sophisticated video wall system. Dave Starck, Systems Engineer for Ford Audio Video, stated, "the Northrop Grumman CWIN project demanded the highest level of visual display performance with full speed, real time display of all video and data sources. We conducted comprehensive evaluations of various wall processors. The SuperView processor was the only wall processor we tested that met this requirement. The other wall processors were unsuccessful, bogging down and displaying at slow frame rates when we added signals. The SuperView processor displayed all visuals in real time with the highest quality output and it handled twice the number of sources that the competitive products we tested do."
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In the CWIN facility, each wall screen has a dedicated ceiling-mounted projector and SuperView processor. The SuperViews receive a myriad of computer and video inputs. Computer inputs include map displays, sensor data, charts, situation awareness visuals, and other computer-generated graphics. The SuperView also receives video inputs comprised of surveillance and reconnaissance video, infrared cameras, live video feeds, as well as video inputs from DVD players and VHS tape decks when the CWIN system is used for briefing presentations.
Each SuperView processor combines the multiple input signals and feeds them to a dedicated DLP projector in the projector's native 1280 x 1024 pixel resolution. Each SuperView is capable of displaying an infinite variety of display configurations, with up to twelve inputs on each screen. CWIN operators can immediately see whatever situational awareness picture they want by selecting amongst sixteen preset display configurations using a simple touch screen panel.
The SuperView multi-input display processor accepts up to twelve real-time inputs and displays the combined output on a single high resolution monitor or projector. The window inputs can be NTSC or PAL composite, component, or S-Video, and high resolution analog RGB with up to 1600 x 1200 pixel resolution. Each window can be independently positioned, scaled to full screen, overlaid with computer graphics or overlapped with other windows. Additionally, the user can pan and zoom within each video image.
Source: RGB Spectrum
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