Having seen this large screen, terms like "Razorvision" and "sharpening" seem very limited and much below the impact of what is going on here with patent protected technology. Sure you have 3 modes and in any of them you could take the level of effect too far. So....stop where that particular mode on that particular source looks good. Other image sources and transfers of movies will take different settings.
Gary Reber in this pasted section below after seeing it on the 50" flat panel at CES, was for me much more intriguing to read and verifies what I saw. Before the subsequent firmware improvements were even made, over this past 9 months.
"According to DarbeeVision's founder and CEO, Paul Darbee, "Our images resonate with the viewer, because DarbeeVision takes into consideration how human vision evolved to perceive a 3-D world." Darbee noted that his company's technology embeds 3-D depth into 2-D images, with perceptible enhancement of detail and depth separation, Darbee says that his team has discovered that pic- tures can be made even better than what the most perfect camera and display systems can produce. DarbeeVision was awarded a patent in 2006 for its proprietary visual computing technology, known as Darbee Visual Presence" (DVP) The real{ime digital logic-pro- cessing algorlthm uses parallax disparity as the basis for local lumi- nance modulation on a per-pixel basis to embed stereo depth infor- mation into monoscopic images.
Using a patented defocus-and-sub-tract method, the process is selectively applied, based upon a fast and accurate saliency map called the Perceptor'", The real{ime pro- cessing is done intra{rame so no large buffer memory or time delays are required. Processing is solution independent, scaling linearly with the number of pixels in a frame. According to Darbee, the effect is a generalization of the "drop shadow" effect. Darbee says that the technology simulates cues that the human brain gets from interprel ing depth through monocular elements, which include size (distant objects subtend smaller visual angles than near objects), texture gra- dient, lighting and shading, and "distance fog" (the foreground has high contrast; the background has low contrast).
The Darblet is a plug-and-play unit that does not require tuning or calibration and has simple controls, which are operated by a remote control, During the demo at this year's CES I again perceived an impressive sense of enhanced clarity and resolution, resulting in a greater sense of depth and dimensionality, and thus, realism. This was true for every 2-D image processed compared to the original image in side-by-side demonstrations. The benefit of the Darblet enhancement was quite apparent and beneficlal, and definitely pre- ferred to the original. Details were enhanced, whlle noise was sup- pressed, wlth no apparent edge enhancement or other unnatural arti- facts experienced while viewing the enhanced images. The Darbee process appears to definitely improve the realism of both monoscop- ic and, expectedly, stereoscopic imagery, in which the 3-D video stream consists of two monoscopic images.
While at present the technology is embedded in a silicon chip housed in an outboard box, the intended application segment is image processing inside display devices, The image processing is 1080p, 60 frames per second, ln real time. Widescreen Reviewwill be the first to review this new imaging technology and report on its performance using calibrated displays."
