INTEGRATOR 3000
THE NEXT GENERATION OF ADVANCED FACILITY CONTROL

Panoram's proprietary software allows rapid drag-and-drop control and configuration of ../images and sources on screen. This GUI is so effective we are often asked by our customers to offer it as a separate item. Here's how it works: Each of the sources in your room, Onyx, SUN, PC's, Telecom Cam, NTSC Video, etc. are assigned a "Smart Icon". It's called a "Smart Icon" because that icon contains all the information about the source frequency, resolution, switcher connection, audio, projector recall, blending, etc. needed to display that source display on the screen or display monitor.

No other control software in the industry has this executive friendly quality. It is very powerful, yet easy to operate. Others vendors simply use AMX or Crestron touch panels with numerous keystrokes to customize screen format configurations. (Reference screen shot)

Already in Beta release and a free upgrade for all current customers is Panoram's Integrator 3000.

Integrator 3000 software is the latest iteration of Panoram's powerful and unique display system management and control.

The Integrator software is fundamentally a dashboard for a visualization system architecture, which Panoram has pioneered. The architecture recognizes that the visualization environment is a complex media environment that consists of a number of sources and a number of displays. This complexity is increasing steadily.

Each source, as well as each display has its own characteristics and thus requirements. For example, sources may consist of video, teleconferencing systems, PCs, Unix workstations, cable feeds, stereographic capable super graphics computers, and more - any of which may have associated audio feeds which might be mono, stereo or surround sound. Displays may consist of single projector, multi-projector, blended, non-blended projections as well as single channel and multi-channel monitors, plasma screens, imaging tables, and more.

In order to view a particular source on any particular display involves a fairly complex routing and adjustment process. Done manually, as many as 10-12 steps might be involved in putting a single source on a display.

For a user, this puts practical limits the sophistication and complexity of a visualization environment as trained specialists would be needed to get a particular source onto a particular display. Although control systems such as AMX have been available, reconfiguring an entire facility to a new mode of operation or adding another source can take specialist programmers many days or even weeks to accomplish.

Panoram's (patent pending) Integrator architecture provides an entirely different paradigm for control of complex media environments. For a user, they simply drag a Source Icon onto a Media Space. Behind the scenes, the control computer on which the Integrator software resides initiates a number of actions.

As various sources are dragged and dropped onto various media spaces, a new facility configuration is derived. This can be done in real-time or if the user wishes they simply click a snapshot button to capture and name the entire facility configuration. The operator can then assign these configurations to F keys, selectable icons in the Integrator interface or to the USER MODE interface.

The room operators themselves without specialists or programmers accomplish all this.

Panoram's customers cite the Company's Integrator architecture as a key reason for purchasing a Panoram facility. Requests for more sophisticated environments have prompted a next generation of refinement called INTEGRATOR 3000.

The Main Control Screen

1. Master Display Palate 2. Projector Lock 3. Source Icon In Source Palate 4. Snapshot Palate 5. Snapshot Sequencer 6. Snapshot Capture Button 7. Sequence Load Button 8. Sequencer Control Button

9. Sequence Save Button 10. Control Station Palate 11. Audio Palate 12. Edge Control 13. Blend Bypass 14. Projector Standby 15. Sort Source

Operator mode and User mode

The USER mode is a simplified panel that allows the basic operation functions of on/off, snapshot recall 1-5 or 1-10, volume up/down. This interface is available on a wireless touch screen that can be placed anywhere in the visualization facility providing a user friendly and simple control system while maintaining all the sophistication and flexibility of the integrator system.

Integrator 3000 now accommodates an unlimited number of sources
The Source Icon Palate has been improved in a number of ways:

• Source Icon graphics have been upgraded
  
• A 255 character text field has been added to each Source Icon to expand the source description if required
  
• Color coding has been added to the Source Icon to quickly differentiate source types such as Confidential and Public
  
• Sorting functions have been added to the Source Icons allowing sorts by color coding, alpha, and creation date.
  
• The Source Palate has been enlarged to allow for more Source Icon to be seen at once.

Media Spaces have been expanded and organized

• Up to 32 display channels can now be addressed
  
• Six Media Space Palates are available
  
• The Master Display Palate is meant for the overview displays including front-of-room projections and auxiliary displays
  
• Three Auxiliary Palates are available with up to eight Media Spaces in each
  
• A Control Station Palate is available for managing previews and data piloting at a main control station
  
• An Audio Palate is available for any Source Icon with audio available
  
• All Media Space Palates can be named as can each Media Space.
  
• All basic projection systems controls include muting, standby, on/off and edge control have been incorporated into the main screen interface

Snapshots or facility configuration "captures" have been enhanced

• All media spaces are included in the snapshot
  
• The Snapshot List palate has been enlarged to display more configurations
  
• The Snapshot sequencer has been updated with 255 character text field and color coding
  
• Mapping of the Snapshot Sequencer has been expanded to all 12 function keys
  
• Groups of room configurations can be stored and recalled allowing for multiple user groups each of whom have their own needs or even for multiple security levels where configurations from one group are not available for the other.