CSR Boosts Multimedia Bluetooth Offering with Virtual Surround Sound.* Photo ref: PEM (Privacy Enhanced Mail) A standard for secure e-mail on the Internet. It supports encryption, digital signatures and digital certificates as well as both private and public key methods. Not widely used, work on PEM later evolved into S/MIME. See MIME. 4760 * To download: http://www.csr.com/images/hires/pem4760.jpg CAMBRIDGE, England -- CSR (LSE LSE - Language Sensitive Editor :CSR) today announced it is has added Sonaptic's SoundStage Virtual Surround System to its BlueCore5-Multimedia Bluetooth technology to provide users with an improved hi-fi stereo audio experience. Mobile Bluetooth products will now be able to benefit from a richer and more engrossing engrossing, in English law, practice of acquiring a monopoly of goods in order to sell them at an inflated price. The offense was ordinarily limited to monopolies of foods. Related practices were forestalling, i.e. stereo audio performance. Sonaptic uses advanced psychoacoustic processing in its software that creates virtual speakers to 'place' the user right in the middle of the sound. This virtual surround experience can be delivered on standard Bluetooth audio devices running BlueCore5-Mulitimedia, and requires an exceptionally low memory and uses very little processing power making it ideal for battery powered mobile devices. Due to a high performance 24-bit 64 MIPS (Million Instructions Per Second) The execution speed of a computer. For example, .5 MIPS is 500,000 instructions per second; 100 MIPS is a hundred million instructions per second. on-chip DSP (1) (Digital Signal Processor) A special-purpose CPU used for digital signal processing applications (see definition #2 below). It provides ultra-fast instruction sequences, such as shift and add, and multiply and add, which are commonly used in math-intensive , CSR's BlueCore5-Multimedia platform is the only Bluetooth platform available which can support a variety of third-party audio enhancement algorithms. In addition, BlueCore5-Multimedia provides superior sound quality with a best-in-class signal to noise ratio of -95dB. BlueCore5-Multimedia also leads the industry for power consumption and radio design. The radio transmits at +6.5dBm and receives at -90dBm which eliminates interference when listening to music or taking a call. When used in stereo headset applications, BlueCore5-Multimedia enables industry-leading battery life of more than 24 hours of music playback. Glenn Collinson, Executive Vice President and co-founder of CSR commented, "Sonaptic's SoundStage surround sound software is a great addition to the BlueCore5-Multimedia platform, enhancing mobile multimedia performance to give device manufacturers a differentiated product, and ultimately provide consumers with a much richer experience." "With the current fever for mobile entertainment devices, consumers not only expect feature-rich gadgets but a great sound experience as well," comments David Monteith mon·teith n. A large punch bowl having a notched rim on which cups can be hung. [Possibly after Monteith (Monteigh), an eccentric 17th-century Scotsman who wore a cloak scalloped at the hem.] , CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. at Sonaptic. He continued, "By incorporating our cost effective software in CSR's BlueCore, manufacturers can deliver superb audio quality, vastly improving the consumer experience and increasing demand for great content." About CSR CSR is the leading global provider of personal wireless technology and its product portfolio covers Bluetooth, GPS, FM receivers and WiFi (IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, New York, www.ieee.org) A membership organization that includes engineers, scientists and students in electronics and allied fields. 802.11). CSR offers developed hardware/software solutions, based around its silicon platforms, that incorporate, fully integrated radio, baseband and microcontroller elements. CSR's customers include industry leaders such as Apple, Dell, LG, Motorola, NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. , Nokia, Panasonic, RIM, Samsung, Sharp, Sony, TomTom and Toshiba. CSR has its headquarters and offices in Cambridge, UK, and offices in Japan, Korea, Taiwan, China, India, France, Denmark, Sweden and both Dallas and Detroit in the USA. More information can be found at www.csr.com About Sonaptic Pure sound, anywhereoSonaptic Limited is a world leading provider of advanced micro-acoustic technologies that recreate a natural listening experience for users of next-generation mobile devices. Based on more than 12 years of research by the company's founders, initially at EMI (ElectroMagnetic Interference) An electrical disturbance in a system due to natural phenomena, low-frequency waves from electromechanical devices or high-frequency waves (RFI) from chips and other electronic devices. Allowable limits are governed by the FCC. Music's Research Laboratories in the 1990s, Sonaptic Sound[TM] processes sound in real time to deliver three-dimensional audio for music, ring tones, games played on a mobile device. Founded in 2003, Sonaptic has its headquarters near London, UK, and offices in Tokyo and Austin, Texas. Users of Sonaptic Sound include the device manufacturers NEC, Fujitsu, Mitsubishi, Motorola and Sharp, the semiconductor vendors ROHM and Yamaha and the network service provider NTT DoCoMo. |
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