Video codec

InterDigital develops CompressAI platform to accelerate AI-based video compression research and development

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Wednesday, September 16, 2020
Computational neuroscience, Articles, Artificial intelligence, Academic disciplines, Branches of science, InterDigital, Videotelephony, Video codec, Artificial general intelligence, Artificial neural network, Compression, Neural network

WILMINGTON, Del., Sept. 16, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- InterDigital, Inc. (NASDAQ:IDCC), a mobile and video technology research and development company, today announced that it has developedCompressAI, a software platform to simplify and accelerate AI-based video compression research.

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  • WILMINGTON, Del., Sept. 16, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- InterDigital, Inc. (NASDAQ:IDCC), a mobile and video technology research and development company, today announced that it has developedCompressAI, a software platform to simplify and accelerate AI-based video compression research.
  • The open source platform, recently released to the video compression research and standards communities, is already being used to support the development of next generation image and video codecs.
  • Leveraging more than two decades of experience in video compression and the independent research of InterDigitals AI Lab, CompressAI automates a large proportion of this research process to accelerate the development and evaluation of candidate neural network architectures in deep video compression research.
  • InterDigital has developed the CompressAI platform to simplify and speed up the process of deep video compression research, allowing teams to test and evaluate AI-based codecs quickly and accurately.

Ingenic Semiconductor Integrates Allegro DVT Encoding IP into Next-Generation Smart-Video System-On-Chip Solutions

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Friday, July 3, 2020
Semiconductor, Security, Technology, Audio, Video, Software, Hardware, Television technology, Standards, Video, Videotelephony, Video compression, H.26x, High-definition television, ISO standards, High Efficiency Video Coding, Advanced Video Coding, Ingenic Semiconductor, Video codec

Allegro DVT, the leading provider of video semiconductor IP solutions, today announced that Ingenic Semiconductor, one of the leading system-on-chip companies in China has integrated the AL-E150 high-performance video encoding IP into its latest generation of Smart Video products.

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  • Allegro DVT, the leading provider of video semiconductor IP solutions, today announced that Ingenic Semiconductor, one of the leading system-on-chip companies in China has integrated the AL-E150 high-performance video encoding IP into its latest generation of Smart Video products.
  • The Smart Video product family from Ingenic Semiconductor features highly integrated Video Processor system-on-chip (SoC) solutions targeted at various video applications such as consumer and professional video surveillance and battery-operated cameras.
  • One of Ingenic latest video processors, includes Allegro DVTs AL-E150 H.264/HEVC/JPEG encoder to handle compression of multiple video channels at resolutions up to 5Mpixels.
  • Allegro DVT, headquartered in Grenoble, France, develops digital video processing solutions including compliance streams and video codec semiconductor IPs focused on the H.264, HEVC, AVS2/3, VP9, AV1, VVC standards.

Digiarty Stays in Lock-step with AOM and Kickstarts AV1 Video Download in WinX HD Video Converter Deluxe Major Upgrade

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Tuesday, April 28, 2020
Videotelephony, Video, Data compression, AV1, Video compression, Video codec

As a user satisfaction oriented software service provider, Digiarty delivers the best video/ audio software solutions to our customers to resolve their issue of failed to download video online.

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  • As a user satisfaction oriented software service provider, Digiarty delivers the best video/ audio software solutions to our customers to resolve their issue of failed to download video online.
  • You can find the latest version of our WinX HD Video Converter Deluxe in the following link: https://www.winxdvd.com/hd-video-converter-deluxe/
    The AOM alliance released their first video codec AV1 in 2018, after 2 years of implementation and development, the AV1 has become a mature, effective video codec option for online video streaming/ video sharing industry.
  • Its engineer located the problems and implemented AV1 codec support to WinX HD Video Converter Deluxe, which now furnishes a perfect AV1 video downloader & decoder.
  • WinX HD Video Converter Deluxe is functioned to be the best video converter software.

AV1 Encoder and Decoder Hardware IPs Available From Allegro DVT and Embedded in Products by End of 2020

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Thursday, April 16, 2020
Video, Videotelephony, Data compression, Video compression, Digital technology, Open formats, AV1, Semiconductor intellectual property core, Video codec, Decoder, Decoding

GRENOBLE, France, April 16, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Allegro DVT, a leading provider of video semiconductor IP solutions, today announced the release of its AL-D21x family of video decoder IPs which adds support for the AV1 video format.

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  • GRENOBLE, France, April 16, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Allegro DVT, a leading provider of video semiconductor IP solutions, today announced the release of its AL-D21x family of video decoder IPs which adds support for the AV1 video format.
  • This addition completes Allegro DVT's previously announced AV1 video IP encoding solutions (AL-E21x) and allows the company to be the only provider of a complete set of AV1 encoding and decoding IPs.
  • Allegro DVT also confirms major design-wins with tier-1 vendors with product availability by end of 2020.
  • "We are pleased to be the first IP provider capable of delivering a complete set of AV1 video IP solutions comprising our encoder AL-E21x and decoder AL-D21x IP cores.

HEVC Advance Announces LG Becomes a Licensor and Licensee of its HEVC Patent Pool

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Wednesday, January 8, 2020
Television technology, Standards, Video, MPEG-H, Video compression, Videotelephony, ISO standards, Graphics file formats, High Efficiency Video Coding, HEVC Advance, Patent pool, Video codec

BOSTON, Jan. 7, 2020 /PRNewswire/ --HEVC Advance, an independent licensing administrator, today announced that LG Electronics Inc. (LG) has become a Licensor and Licensee of the HEVC Advance HEVC/H.265 Patent Pool.As a Licensor, all of LG's HEVC/H.265 essential patents will now be available through the HEVC Advance Patent Pool, which provides a transparent and efficient licensing program for HEVC/H.265 essential patents.

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  • BOSTON, Jan. 7, 2020 /PRNewswire/ --HEVC Advance, an independent licensing administrator, today announced that LG Electronics Inc. (LG) has become a Licensor and Licensee of the HEVC Advance HEVC/H.265 Patent Pool.As a Licensor, all of LG's HEVC/H.265 essential patents will now be available through the HEVC Advance Patent Pool, which provides a transparent and efficient licensing program for HEVC/H.265 essential patents.
  • As a Licensee, LG gains access to the more than 10,000 world-wide patents (and counting) essential to implementing the HEVC/H.265 video codec standard licensed through HEVC Advance.
  • "We are very pleased that LG has chosen HEVC Advance to license their HEVC/H.265 essential patents," said HEVC Advance CEO, Peter Moller.
  • HEVC Advance is an independent licensing administrator company formed to lead the development, administration and management of an HEVC/H.265 patent pool for licensing essential patents.

HEVC Advance Announces LG Becomes a Licensor and Licensee of its HEVC Patent Pool

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Wednesday, January 8, 2020
Television technology, Standards, Video, MPEG-H, Video compression, Videotelephony, ISO standards, Graphics file formats, High Efficiency Video Coding, HEVC Advance, Patent pool, Video codec

BOSTON, Jan. 8, 2020 /PRNewswire/ --HEVC Advance, an independent licensing administrator, today announced that LG Electronics Inc. (LG) has become a Licensor and Licensee of the HEVC Advance HEVC/H.265 Patent Pool.As a Licensor, all of LG's HEVC/H.265 essential patents will now be available through the HEVC Advance Patent Pool, which provides a transparent and efficient licensing program for HEVC/H.265 essential patents.

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  • BOSTON, Jan. 8, 2020 /PRNewswire/ --HEVC Advance, an independent licensing administrator, today announced that LG Electronics Inc. (LG) has become a Licensor and Licensee of the HEVC Advance HEVC/H.265 Patent Pool.As a Licensor, all of LG's HEVC/H.265 essential patents will now be available through the HEVC Advance Patent Pool, which provides a transparent and efficient licensing program for HEVC/H.265 essential patents.
  • As a Licensee, LG gains access to the more than 10,000 world-wide patents (and counting) essential to implementing the HEVC/H.265 video codec standard licensed through HEVC Advance.
  • "We are very pleased that LG has chosen HEVC Advance to license their HEVC/H.265 essential patents," said HEVC Advance CEO, Peter Moller.
  • HEVC Advance is an independent licensing administrator company formed to lead the development, administration and management of an HEVC/H.265 patent pool for licensing essential patents.

Silicon IP Provider Allegro DVT Acquires Amphion Semiconductor to Create a New Leader in the Video Codec IP Space

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Wednesday, October 16, 2019
Videotelephony, ON Semiconductor, Video codec, Companies

GRENOBLE, France and BELFAST, Northern Ireland, Oct. 16, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Allegro DVT, the leading provider of video codec compliance test suites and semiconductor video IPs, today announced the acquisition of Amphion Semiconductor, the Belfast-based developer of video codec semiconductor IP solutions.

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  • GRENOBLE, France and BELFAST, Northern Ireland, Oct. 16, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Allegro DVT, the leading provider of video codec compliance test suites and semiconductor video IPs, today announced the acquisition of Amphion Semiconductor, the Belfast-based developer of video codec semiconductor IP solutions.
  • The acquisition brings together two best-in-class IP providers, combining the capabilities of Allegro DVT's advanced video codec IPs, together with Amphion's silicon proven video decoder IPs.
  • Speaking from Grenoble, Nouar Hamze, CEO of Allegro DVT said: "We are delighted to announce the acquisition of the Amphion IP and team which will clearly position Allegro DVT as the world's leading video codec IP provider.
  • In Belfast, Stephen Farson, CEO of Amphion Semiconductor commented: "We are very excited to be joining forces with the Allegro DVT team.

Silicon IP Provider Allegro DVT Acquires Amphion Semiconductor to Create a New Leader in the Video Codec IP Space

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Wednesday, October 16, 2019
Videotelephony, ON Semiconductor, Video codec, Companies

GRENOBLE, France and BELFAST, Northern Ireland, Oct. 16, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Allegro DVT, the leading provider of video codec compliance test suites and semiconductor video IPs, today announced the acquisition of Amphion Semiconductor, the Belfast-based developer of video codec semiconductor IP solutions.

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  • GRENOBLE, France and BELFAST, Northern Ireland, Oct. 16, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Allegro DVT, the leading provider of video codec compliance test suites and semiconductor video IPs, today announced the acquisition of Amphion Semiconductor, the Belfast-based developer of video codec semiconductor IP solutions.
  • The acquisition brings together two best-in-class IP providers, combining the capabilities of Allegro DVT's advanced video codec IPs, together with Amphion's silicon proven video decoder IPs.
  • Speaking from Grenoble, Nouar Hamze, CEO of Allegro DVT said: "We are delighted to announce the acquisition of the Amphion IP and team which will clearly position Allegro DVT as the world's leading video codec IP provider.
  • In Belfast, Stephen Farson, CEO of Amphion Semiconductor commented: "We are very excited to be joining forces with the Allegro DVT team.

Next Generation Video Codec Standard Proposed: MPEG Video Coding for Machines (VCM)

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Tuesday, August 20, 2019
Videotelephony, Video, Video Coding Experts Group, Moving Picture Experts Group, Video codec

There is a growing awareness that the majority of video traffic will be used by machines.

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  • There is a growing awareness that the majority of video traffic will be used by machines.
  • A robust discussion was had at the 127th MPEG Conference in Zhang Yuan, China, in July of 2019, regarding the need for standardization.
  • Gyrfalcon Technology Inc., along with China Telecom, proposed the next generation video codec called, "video coding for machines" (VCM), which provides compression coding for machine vision, as well as compression for human-machine hybrid vision.
  • Together they will lead VCM group to establish a new standard that will improve the previous generation video coding and decoding standard H.26x.

Allegro DVT Announces the Availability of the First AVS3 Compliance Test Suite

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Thursday, July 25, 2019
Videotelephony, Video, Video coding format, Video codec, Codec, Test suite

The newly added test suite will help silicon vendors and device manufacturers validate their AVS3 decoder implementations using industry proven test streams.

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  • The newly added test suite will help silicon vendors and device manufacturers validate their AVS3 decoder implementations using industry proven test streams.
  • Allegro DVT's AVS3 test suites also leverage the company's extensive experience in developing audio/video compliance test streams.
  • Allegro DVT continues to follow the evolution of the AVS3 standard and will be providing updates to its AVS3 test suites as needed.
  • "The newly added AVS3 test suite complements Allegro DVT's extensive portfolio of video codecs test suites which already includes support for previous generation AVS2 video coding standard.