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Features/Specifications Description
Sensor ¼-in CMOS
Pixels 628 (H) × 582 (V)
510 (H) × 492 (V)
Dimensions 2.2 × 3 × 2 cm
Power requirement 5 V DC
Operating temp range -20°C to +60°C
Signal system NTSC
Scanning frequency 50 Hz or 60 Hz
Minimum illumination 3.0 Lux (F1.2)
Transmission range 150–200 m

Table 9.2 RC310 Camera Features and Specifications

The overall quality is essentially sub-VGA at 480 × 240 pixels, which means that this
camera will not provide a detailed image when video is taken at a reasonable distance. But
that is fine because this system was never designed for use with this type of application.
I will show you later how to get some unusual and useful results from the video by using
some clever post processing. Before getting to that, I want to discuss the receiver portion of
the economy video system.
Figure 9.23 shows the receiver along with the video-capture module that is needed to
capture the video frames for post processing.
Table 9.3 details the features and specifications for the RC310 receiver. The receiver was
set to channel 1, which seemed to function well with little interference from other 2.4-GHz

Figure 9.23 RC310 receiver and an EzCap USB video-capture module.