Presenting Full HD

Image 1^® HD offers the highest standard ever for endoscopic imaging—1080p60. It acquires and displays surgical images in 16:9 for the widest and most natural aspect ratio possible. The technology uses progressive scanning at 60 frames per second to capture fast-moving object and produce sharper still images during endoscopic procedures. And it uses 3 CCD technology, the proven standard in today’s OR. Because the camera head can be mounted to the proximal end of any telescope, every specialty benefits of our Image1^® HD solution.

The launch of Image 1^® HD marks a significant improvement over standard definition (SD) and even over early low-end HD video technologies.

Image 1^® has traditionally offered resolution of 720 x 480 (horizontal x vertical) pixels in a 4:3 format and interlaced scanning, represented by the lightest colored frame in the image in the sidebar to the right. Our new FULL HD technology offers images with a resolution of 1920 x 1080 — an amazing 2 million pixels — in a 16:9 format, which is represented by the dark blue frame. Compared with our SD systems, Image 1^® HD with 1080 resolution and progressive scanning provides six times more pixel resolution twice as often to give 12 times more information in each second of video you see.

The middle frame illustrates the 720p HD standard with a 16:9 aspect ratio offered by some early low-end HD systems. KARL STORZ has chosen 1080p because it represents the highest standard available today for acquiring and displaying endoscopic video images. It is FULL HD.