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InterDigital and Concordia University Announce Research Collaboration on AI-enabled Immersive Media Delivery over 5G Networks

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星期一, 四月 15, 2024

Specifically, the collaboration supports research and innovation (R&I) into novel media delivery paradigms, approaches, prototype tools, and evaluation results.

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  • Specifically, the collaboration supports research and innovation (R&I) into novel media delivery paradigms, approaches, prototype tools, and evaluation results.
  • The research will also explore the development of systems that support the efficient delivery of high-quality, six degrees of freedom (6DoF), volumetric immersive media content over 5G networks.
  • Together, InterDigital and Concordia University’s research collaboration aims to design an end-to-end immersive media transport system, addressing media packaging, media ingesting, media delivery, and media consumption, that abides by media coding standards set by IETF, MPEG, and 3GPP.
  • “We are excited to announce this partnership with Concordia University to explore and create systems and tools to support the exciting intersection between AI and immersive media delivery protocols,” said Gaëlle Martin-Cocher, Senior Director at InterDigital.

Hydrolix Partners with Germany's G&L Systemhaus to Enhance Streaming Media Delivery Through Data Aggregation

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星期三, 四月 17, 2024

PORTLAND, Ore., April 17, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Hydrolix, a provider of next-generation data lake technology, today announced a new partnership with G&L Systemhaus, a full-service systems integrator for large broadcasters in the German-speaking region and across Europe. The partnership focuses on improving the delivery of media content, both live and on-demand, through the use of large-scale data aggregation techniques.

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  • The Hydrolix-G&L partnership focuses on improving the delivery of media content, both live and on-demand, through Hydrolix's large-scale data aggregation technology.
  • The partnership focuses on improving the delivery of media content, both live and on-demand, through the use of large-scale data aggregation techniques.
  • G&L offers solutions for processing and delivering live and on-demand content for large broadcasters and in the fast-growing over-the-top (OTT) media segment.
  • Key benefits delivered to G&L by Hydrolix include:
    For more information about the Powered by Hydrolix Partner Program, visit https://hydrolix.io/partner-program .

California-Based Elecard Devices Chooses Skyline's DataMiner Platform to Power Elecard's video quality monitoring solution

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星期二, 四月 9, 2024

MILPITAS, Calif., April 9, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- The integration incorporates the use of the Boro connector for smooth transmission of QoS & QoE probing data directly into the DataMiner management platform for further processing and visualization on Dataminer's dashboards and LowCode APPs. Elecard's connector has been published in the DataMiner Catalog and can be downloaded free of charge.

Key Points: 
  • Elecard, the leading developer of video compression and video quality analysis technologies, is announcing collaboration with Skyline Communications for Skyline's DataMiner orchestration platform.
  • The collaboration brings together Elecard's widely-used IP monitoring and probing software, Boro, and Skyline's DataMiner, renowned for its robust control and data consolidation features.
  • The collaboration brings together Elecard's widely-used IP monitoring and probing software, Boro, and Skyline's DataMiner, renowned for its robust control and data consolidation features.
  • "It's great to see how fast the Elecard team has created the DataMiner connector to manage their Boro platform.

InterDigital Honors Wireless and Video Innovation Leaders Michael Starsinic and Fabrice Le Léannec as Inventors of the Year

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星期四, 二月 22, 2024

“At InterDigital, our innovation impact is earned and maintained by world-class inventors like Fabrice and Michael who push the boundaries of what is possible in our communications,” said Liren Chen, President and CEO at InterDigital.

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  • “At InterDigital, our innovation impact is earned and maintained by world-class inventors like Fabrice and Michael who push the boundaries of what is possible in our communications,” said Liren Chen, President and CEO at InterDigital.
  • Michael is well respected throughout industry and standards circles, and he cites his collaborations with colleagues as fuel for his innovation.
  • Fabrice Le Léannec is a Brittany-based Senior Principal Researcher shaping next generation video codecs through his significant contributions to the High Efficiency Video Codec (HEVC) and Versatile Video Codec (VVC) and their specifications in the MPEG standards.
  • At InterDigital, Fabrice has dedicated his research to developing new algorithms and improvements to achieve greater efficiencies from state-of-the-art video compression.

At MWC, InterDigital to Showcase Innovation Empowering Connected Experiences ‘At Work, At Rest, and At Play’

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星期一, 二月 19, 2024

“InterDigital innovation creates value through the tools we create and through the experiences they enable,” said Rajesh Pankaj, EVP and CTO at InterDigital.

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  • “InterDigital innovation creates value through the tools we create and through the experiences they enable,” said Rajesh Pankaj, EVP and CTO at InterDigital.
  • InterDigital is a long-time contributor to MPEG Immersive Standards, including Scene Description, V3C codecs alongside partner Philips, and newer haptics codecs to enable seamless, immersive experiences.
  • Elsewhere at MWC, InterDigital will lead stage presentations and showcase at partner booths to further amplify the impact of our research and innovation.
  • At the Keysight booth located at Hall 5 Stand 5E12, InterDigital and Keysight will together showcase a 144 GHz testbed utilizing an AI-enabled air interface.

MWC 2024 | What Is the Way out for Telco Video Services As IPTV Is Becoming a Past?

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星期三, 二月 21, 2024

Back then, telecom operators valued a vast user base, whereas today, high-quality video services take priority over large user bases.

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  • Back then, telecom operators valued a vast user base, whereas today, high-quality video services take priority over large user bases.
  • Here are some inspiring suggestions:
    Facing the mounting pressure from OTT video services, most operators have started or completed the construction of their OTT video platforms.
  • Now, approximately 140 operators around the world having deployed IPTV services, although they all differ in terms of development status.
  • MWC Barcelona 2024 will be held from February 26 to February 29 in Barcelona, Spain.

InterDigital and Broadpeak Announce Collaboration on MPEG V3C Standardized Content Distribution At Scale

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星期二, 二月 13, 2024

Volumetric video is a critical component in the creation and enjoyment of increasingly immersive experiences and the MPEG V3C standard defines the general mechanism for coding and streaming volumetric content.

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  • Volumetric video is a critical component in the creation and enjoyment of increasingly immersive experiences and the MPEG V3C standard defines the general mechanism for coding and streaming volumetric content.
  • The wide-scale distribution of volumetric content to broad audiences also depends on efficient and V3C-compliant distribution networks, and this is a key area of focus for the InterDigital-Broadpeak collaboration.
  • InterDigital will contribute the V3C end-to-end implementation platform built jointly with its partner Philips, and Broadpeak will contribute on packaging and content delivery network (CDN) technologies.
  • “Thanks to our collaboration with InterDigital, we will further enhance our Origin-Packager and CDN to stream standardized V3C volumetric content to wide audiences.”
    InterDigital and Broadpeak will showcase the latest results of their collaboration on immersive content distribution at scale at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona from February 26 – 29.

National Equity Fund (NEF) Announces Nearly $2 Billion in Affordable Housing Investments for 2023 with record Low-Income Housing Tax Credits (LIHTC) production

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星期四, 一月 25, 2024

CHICAGO, Jan. 25, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- National Equity Fund (NEF) provided a strong year of financing to support the creation and preservation of affordable homes across the country, prevailing against major economic and financial disruptions that impacted the industry throughout 2023. For the full year, the nonprofit raised and deployed nearly $2 billion in affordable housing investments, including a record-level of financing for LIHTC-specific equity at more than $1.43 billion and nearly $425 million in preservation lending and workforce housing investments.

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  • CHICAGO, Jan. 25, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- National Equity Fund (NEF) provided a strong year of financing to support the creation and preservation of affordable homes across the country, prevailing against major economic and financial disruptions that impacted the industry throughout 2023.
  • For the full year, the nonprofit raised and deployed nearly $2 billion in affordable housing investments, including a record-level of financing for LIHTC-specific equity at more than $1.43 billion and nearly $425 million in preservation lending and workforce housing investments.
  • In line with its mission to find innovative ways to fund affordable housing, NEF deployed $70 million through its Emerging Minority Developer Fund (EMDF), which helps facilitate LIHTC access for affordable housing developers of color.
  • The 2023 investment through EMDF will create 323 total units of affordable housing in eight developments across eight different states.

Agora, Inc. Reports Third Quarter 2023 Financial Results

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星期二, 十一月 21, 2023

Net loss for the quarter was $22.5 million, compared to net loss of $27.7 million in the third quarter of 2022.

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  • Net loss for the quarter was $22.5 million, compared to net loss of $27.7 million in the third quarter of 2022.
  • Adjusted EBITDA for the quarter was negative $4.4 million, compared to negative $16.4 million in the third quarter of 2022.
  • Total cash, cash equivalents, bank deposits and financial products issued by banks as of September 30, 2023 was $373.4 million.
  • The Company uses these non-GAAP financial measures internally in analyzing its financial results and believe that the use of these non-GAAP financial measures is useful to investors as an additional tool to evaluate ongoing operating results and trends and in comparing its financial results with other companies in its industry, many of which present similar non-GAAP financial measures.

WiSA Technologies to show Fraunhofer’s upHear Spatial Audio Rendering Solution in Combination with WiSA E Wireless Audio Software at CES 2024

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星期四, 十二月 21, 2023

upHear Flexible Rendering has been designed to bring immersive audio experiences into any room without restrictions of fixed speaker placements or audio source content.

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  • upHear Flexible Rendering has been designed to bring immersive audio experiences into any room without restrictions of fixed speaker placements or audio source content.
  • With fundamental technologies such as WiSA E and upHear Flexible Rendering, spatial audio has become conveniently accessible to all consumers.
  • WiSA Technologies, Inc. and the WiSA Technologies, Inc. logo are trademarks of WiSA Technologies, Inc.
  • The WiSA logo, WiSA®, WiSA Ready™, and WiSA Certified™ are trademarks and certification marks of WiSA, LLC.