| Earlier this year Sanyo introduced a new pan | | | | image together with a large depth of field. Sanyo |
| focus technology. No matter what distance from | | | | produced a unique lens providing a high picture |
| the camera this new pan focus technology allows | | | | quality and high resolution. Obviously this was the |
| a video security camera to focus on every | | | | start of a stunning solution. In simple terms Sanyo |
| object that can be seen through the camera lens. | | | | were then able to use this new lens and together |
| This development has some incredible benefits for | | | | with digital processing were able to provide a |
| the security and surveillance industry by increasing | | | | sharp well focused image in any part of the |
| the effective area covered by each digital | | | | captured data or frame. |
| security camera because all the viewed area can | | | | The pan focus system really helps in all security |
| used rather than having to have overlapping | | | | and surveillance systems. If you select a digital |
| cameras to cover the areas which were not in | | | | focus camera for your own domestic security |
| focus. | | | | then you will be assured that you'll be able to see |
| Some people would rightly ask the question - | | | | clearly anything the camera captures and writes |
| what is the difference between pan focus and | | | | away to the disk storage. Similarly in a large |
| auto focus. Pan focus is always in focus but not | | | | commercial or business surveillance operation the |
| adjustable. The lens is set to hyper focal distance | | | | security personnel can easily observe images and |
| and at the largest possible aperture. Auto focus is | | | | identify suspicious situations because all the |
| where the camera focuses on some exact point | | | | objects are in focus. Prior to the pan focus digital |
| or object and anything in behind or in front of the | | | | camera it would be an all too frequent event |
| object may well be out of focus. | | | | occurrence for example to have a vehicle |
| Before the new pan focus system it was | | | | captured on screen but the license plate was out |
| generally not feasible to achieve a high resolution | | | | of focus. |