Designed for wireless ICs and enabling a suite of applications such as digital still camera, video messaging, personal video player, video telephony, and mobile TV, Hantro's 7170 decoder is a hardware solution that combines all of the key formats for enabling mobile multimedia in one design.

The new 7170 Multi-Format Decoder supports video resolutions up to 720x576 and JPEG still images up to 16 million pixels. The decoder incorporates a host of post-processing features to improve visual performance, simplify device integration, and facilitate application development.

Color conversion changes the output video to RGB format, meeting display input requirements. Brightness, contrast ,and saturation provide complete control over the visual aspects of the image. Alpha blending and masking simplify user interface design. Cropping and scaling enable higher resolution video/still images to be easily displayed on the handset, and picture-in-picture facilitates applications such as video telephony and channel preview for mobile TV.

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