Philips PCVC675K99 - Manual (Page 23)

Pixel
The smallest square or round element in an image. These are the "building blocks" that are only one color in
their individual state, but combine with others to form complete Images.
Plug & Play
An operating system principle for connecting hardware to your computer. The idea is to automatically recognize
the new hardware and to load the appropriate drivers without restarting your computer. With USB devices this
usually means that you will have to perform an installation procedure only once, i.e. the first time you connect
the new hardware. After this first time, you will not have to restart the computer when connecting the camera to
the USB port. The USB driver will detect the camera as newly connected hardware. It can be used within a few
seconds without the need to restart the computer.
Preview Window
The window within the capture application that is used to display live, or moving, video.
Property page
A window with camera setting tabs that appears when you click on a setting menu item within an application.
This setting menu item can have different names in different applications, but is usually called 'Settings',
'Preferences', 'Video settings' or the like.
Rebooting
Restarting your PC to initialize all original settings and finalize all settings changed during an installation
procedure.
Resolution
Typically used in the context of pixels, this is used to describe overall video size. This is related to quality in that
the higher the resolution, the better the quality and the more pixels.
Snapshot button
The hardware button on top of the camera which fulfils the same function as the software 'Capture' button in
the TWAIN view finder window. If the view finder displays the camera picture on your screen in the TWAIN
view finder window, clicking on this button will capture a still image.
TWAIN
Standard software interface for imaging applications. If a hardware device has a TWAIN driver, it can be used
as an image source for TWAIN-compatible imaging applications. Choose your TWAIN source in the imaging
application itself. Then choose 'Acquire' to start the TWAIN driver for the TWAIN source.
USB
Universal Serial Bus, used for connecting external devices to the PC without having to restart your PC.
Video for Windows
Developed by Microsoft, this is a standard for displaying video on the Windows desktop. Windows 98 has this
built in.
Video stream
A collection of images that combine to form motion - or moving - pictures (also known as movies or video
clips).
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