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Keep your Table Free
Hide the Visualizer in or on the Ceiling

The basic idea behind the Ceiling Visualizer is to keep the speaker's table or lectern free, so that nothing disturbs the view between the speaker and audience.

In situations like this presentation of architectural diagrams, it would be impossible to place everything the audience is supposed to see on a working surface of a "Desktop Visualizer".

A Ceiling Visualizer is the ideal solution for such applications.

Other advantages compared to "Desktop" Visualizers:

• Visualizer can be completely hidden in a suspended ceiling
• No cables from the table to the ceiling
• Objects can be even larger and higher
• Fix installed unit can hardly be stolen

Designed like a Projector - A Visualizer on the Ceiling

WolfVision's Ceiling Visualizers can be mounted to the ceiling like a projector. The design fits perfectly to modern data projectors. Furthermore, the Ceiling Visualizers can also be integrated into a suspended ceiling.

WolfVision's Ceiling Visualzers come with their own ceiling mounts. The height of the ceiling mount is only 40mm (1.6").To suspend the Visualizer from the ceiling (in order to get bigger enlargements), any standard ceiling mount for projectors can be used. The Ceiling Visualizers have flexible fixings which will fit with almost any brand.

The Ceiling Visualizers come in a small and elegant housing. Accessing the cable connectors on the top side of the unit is very easy, as the Visualizer can be opened with just one pull. The automatic height adjustment mode allows easy installation and also offers the possibility to expand the optical zoom range with a height adjustable table or ceiling mount.

Outstanding Mechanical Stability and Long Lifetime

Outstanding mechanical stability has always been a basic requirement for all WolfVision products. Our Visualizers are solid and built to last a very long lifetime.

Just "touch" the unit and "feel" the difference between a WolfVision Visualizer and any other unit on the market!

Easy Positioning (with Synchronized Lightfield)

The Synchronized Lightfield is a key feature of WolfVision's Professional and Ceiling Visualizer series. This patented system can only be found on WolfVision units.

A lightfield, the size of the pick-up area of the built-in camera is projected onto the working surface. The illuminated part of the working surface is always identical to the pick-up area of the camera.

When zooming in and out, the size of this lightfield changes accordingly.This allows very easy positioning of objects. There is no need to look at a monitor. Just place the object in the illuminated portion of the working surface!

Depth of Focus (Depth of Field)

The Ceiling Visualizers are equipped with professional telezoom lenses with very high depth of focus. This is very important for working with larger 3-dimensional objects. Even at high magnification, they are always sharp from top to bottom.

The Visualizers are equipped with a One-Push-Autofocus. However due to the great depth of focus, it is rarely necessary to adjust the focus.

Shadow Free Illumination

As the camera and the light projector are situated side by side within the Visualizer and follow the same path, shadows are almost completely eliminated.

During a presentation, it is often necessary to write something on a document on the working surface or to point to a certain detail with a finger or a pencil. The Visualizers are perfectly suited for this, as there are practically no shadows covering up important details.

Illumination of Hollow Objects /
No Light Adjustments Necessary

Due to the special light system of the Ceiling Visualizers, every part of the recorded picture is always perfectly illuminated. Hollow objects or complex 3-D objects are always completely illuminated - even on the inside.

As a result, there is never a need for adjustment of the light.

100% Reflection Free

With the special light system of WolfVision's Ceiling Visualizers, it is impossible that the Visualizer's light is reflected back into the camera (see illustration).

Thus the whole working surface is always 100% reflection free.

Advanced Keystone Correction

A new feature of the Ceiling Visualizers VZ-C12³ and VZ-C32³ is the Advanced Keystone Correction. It works very precisely and in real time - completely invisible to the user.

Maintenance Free High-Intensity LED Light System

The new Ceiling Visualizers VZ-C12³ and VZ-C32³ come with a High-Brightness LED Light System. The light output has been increased while the power consumption is now much lower.

The new light only requires a very small internal cooling fan. As a result the new Ceiling Visualizers are very quiet in operation.

The new light system has an incredible long lifetime of 30,000 hours - which can be considered as "maintenance free" for most installations. This is especially important, when the unit is built-into a suspended ceiling, where changing of lamps may not be easy.

16x Optical Zoom + 4x Digital

The Ceiling Visualizers come with professional telezoom lenses with an amazing 16x optical zoom factor. In combination with the 4x digital zoom, the total zoom range of the new Ceiling Visualizers is 64x.

This allows for the installation in rooms with differing heights. The Ceiling Visualizers can zoom in very close as well as pick up very large objects.

The actual sizes of the largest and the smallest picture the unit can pick up depends on the installation height.
Use the following link to calculate distance and image sizes:

Distance / Zoom range calculation program (A browser which supports Java Script is required)

WolfVision Picture Quality

WolfVision Visualizers have always been famous for their outstanding picture quality, which is due to a perfect mixture of high end components and remarkable know-how.

Perfect picture quality means high resolution throughout the whole picture (including the edges), lifelike colors, high frame rate, fast and precise auto focus, smooth zooming, an overall distortion free picture, even lighting without reflections or hot spots and much more.

The picture quality of a Visualizer or camera can only be as good as its weakest component. The following 5 basic elements are responsible for perfect picture quality, as found on all WolfVision units:

>> Click here for more details on WolfVision picture quality

Extremely High Resolution / 1-CCD and 3-CCD

The difference between the two Ceiling Visualizers is the built-in camera. The VZ-C12³ comes with a state of the art 1-CCD SXGA- camera with 820 lines resolution, while the VZ-C32³ features a brand new 3-CCD SXGA- camera with 1200 lines resolution and 100% lifelike colors. Both units have 3 native resolutions in all 3 popular aspect ratios:

• SXGA- 1280x960 pixel - 4:3
• WXGA 1280x800 pixel - 16:10
• 720p HD 1280x720 pixel - 16:9

The high end scaler of the Visualizers can scale the picture at the image source. As a result the picture quality is not only perfect in native resolution, but also in all scaled signal formats. All of todays projectors, monitors, plasma displays or videoconferencing systems can display at least one of these standards. If new standards come up in the future, WolfVision will be there with Firmware Updates!

Firmware Updates / New Mainboard

WolfVision's Visualizers are the only units on the market that offer upgradeable firmware. This allows new features and technical improvements to be added at no cost!

Downloading firmware updates from the internet and uploading them onto a Visualizer with the latest version of the WolfVision Connectivity Software can be done in a couple of minutes. Serial (RS232), USB or LAN connections can be used for the update. WolfVision's engineers are constantly working on new features and improvements to keep your units up to date with the technology of tomorrow!

The Ceiling Visualizers VZ-C12³ and VZ-C32³ come with a new mainboard with even more computing power and additional resources (for more features and enhancements to be added later on via Firmware Updates).

LAN Port / Additional Network Features

The LAN port is a key feature of all high-end Visualizers from WolfVision. It makes the Visualizer a part of the internal computer network and it can be used for communication over the Internet, if it is assigned an official (WAN) IP address. The LAN-port is especially important for the Ceiling Visualizers, because it is the most convenient way to communicate with the unit on the Ceiling.

Administrators of a larger number of Visualizers can use the LAN port to control, support and update all of their units from their local desktop PC.

The list of applications for the Visualizers LAN port is constantly increasing. It can be used for controlling, capturing still images, viewing live video streams, firmware updates, adjustments, menu settings and maintenance purposes.

New LAN features of VZ-C12³ and VZ-C32³:

USB Device and USB Host Port

The USB Device port can be used for direct connections between the Visualizer and a computer. This way, a Visualizer can be used as a scanner for 3-dimensional objects. Images in JPG, TIF or BMP format can be taken in a fraction of a second - much faster than with a desktop scanner.

WolfVision's USB Software (Connectivity Software) works under Windows 2000, XP, Vista and 7 (32 and 64-bit) as well as Apple Macintosh. It is fully TWAIN/WIA compatible. This is important when using Visualizers in connection with graphic programs such as Photoshop, or for connecting them to Interactive Whiteboards (Smart Boards).

The fast USB 2.0 port can also output live motion. WolfVision‘s Connectivity Software can store AVI files and includes a video capture driver. You can view and save the live image from the Visualizer on your computer in almost every modern video editing software.

A new feature of the VZ-C12³ and VZ-C32³is the USB Host port.

It can be used for connecting USB sticks and other "passive" USB devices. USB sticks can be used as an extension of the image memory and for uploading and downloading of images.

Upcoming Firmware Updates will increase the functionality of the USB Host port even more.

Internal and External Image Memory

The user has the opportunity to store 9 images in the internal memory of the unit and recall them by just pressing one of the numerical keys on the infrared remote control. By pressing the "View All" key, a split image with all 9 pictures of the memory can be displayed, enabling easy selection.

When a USB stick is connected to the unit, the image memory can be extended to an almost unlimited number of images (upper limit is the size of the USB stick).

Computer Input

Instead of connecting a computer directly to a monitor or projector, the monitor output of the computer can be connected to the external input of the Visualizer. This has the advantage that a user can use the Ext/Int key of the Visualizer to switch between the Visualizer image and the computer image. There is no need to use a second remote control of a projector or monitor to switch between the image sources.

Digital Scaler

The Visualizer has a built-in digital image scaler which can process the signal from the external input and output it in the same mode as the Visualizer image. (For example: If the Visualizer is set to output an SXGA image to the projector and the computer outputs an XGA signal, the scaler of the Visualizer converts the XGA image of the computer to SXGA. As a result the projector does not readjust the input mode when switching between the Visualizer and computer image). It can also digitize the analog RGB signal from the computer and output it on the digital DVI output.

In addition, images on a connected USB-stick are automatically scaled to the current output mode of the Visualizer.

Integrated Seamless Switch

The VZ-C12³ and VZ-C32³ comes with an integrated Seamless Switch.

This allows fade-over/dissolve effects when switching between the Visualizer image, the image from the external input, the internal image memory of the Visualizer and pictures on an USB stick.

This feature makes switching from one media to the other appear very smooth and professional.

Live to Freeze Comparison

The Preview output of the Visualizers always outputs the live image of the Visualizer camera, while all other outputs (DVI, RGB etc.) can be set to output a "freeze" image.

This can be used for a "Live Picture to Freeze Picture Comparison" on two monitors or screens with just one Visualizer.

While one monitor or screen displays a "freeze" image that can be used for comparison, another monitor or screen can be used for presenting the live image from the Visualizer.

Optimized for Video Conferencing

The big advantage of a Ceiling Visualizer in a video conferencing application is that it is completely invisible to the audience. As you can see in the illustration on the left, documents can be picked up on the table, directly in front of the speaker. This is much more convenient than with a "Desktop" Visualizer, which always has to be placed at an acceptable distance to the speaker. Otherwise it could disturb the visual contact between camera/monitor and speaker.

WolfVision's camera electronics produce a very strong and stable picture, which is very important when a Visualizer is used as a document camera for videoconferencing systems. The even lighting, smooth auto iris and perfect focus are very important features, enabling video conferencing systems to digitize and transfer the picture from a WolfVision Visualizer much faster than pictures from other document cameras. Furthermore there is no blinding stray light from a WolfVision Visualizer, which could disturb the auto iris of the room camera.

Of course these features are equally important for live image presentations with a data projector and for other Visualizer applications.

X-large Lightbox LB-38 can be Used

Transparencies can be picked up in perfect quality on the supplied crystalline white working plate of the Ceiling Visualizers. For x-rays and slides, an external lightbox is required.

A big advantage of the Ceiling Visualizers in the medical field, is that it can also pick up the largest x-rays. For this purpose, WolfVision offers the very large optional Lightbox LB-38. The size of the lit area is 430 x 359mm (16.9" x 14.1"). The unit has a very elegant appearance and is very thin (only 14mm / 0.6").

External Controlling

The Visualizer offers 4 different possibilities to control the unit from external devices, such as a remote control system for the whole room, a video conferencing system or a computer: Serial RS232, USB, LAN and Infrared.

Enhanced RS232/LAN/USB Protocol

The Enhanced Protocol of the VZ-C12³ and VZ-C32³ supports the same professional commands over the RS232, LAN and USB port. Thus the units support all of today's and tomorrows external controlling devices.

Connectors

Both units output the picture on RGB- (15-pin D-Sub and BNC connectors) and DVI outputs. The Auto Resolution function recognizes the connected projector or monitor and automatically selects the perfect output mode.