Canopus licenses CompCore's SoftPEG, the leading software MPEG player for the PC.SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 22, 1995--Canopus Co., Ltd. announced publicly today its agreement to license SoftPEG(TM), the PC industry's most technically advanced software MPEG (Moving Pictures Experts Group) An ISO/ITU standard for compressing digital video. Pronounced "em-peg," it is the universal standard for digital terrestrial, cable and satellite TV, DVDs and digital video recorders (DVRs). player, from CompCore Multimedia, Inc. By licensing SoftPEG(TM), Canopus adds a powerful, cost-effective MPEG solution to its line of multimedia products. "Canopus' adoption of our MPEG player for inclusion with their hardware products makes MPEG available and affordable for many PC users," explained George Haber, President of CompCore Multimedia. "Canopus provides scalable solutions for MPEG," said Hiroshi Yamada, President and 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. of Canopus Co. Ltd. "I feel SoftPEG has the best quality and performance among software MPEG decoders." Canopus will be bundling SoftPEG(TM) with the Power Windows series, its line of graphics accelerators. Canopus Corporation has developed a unique GUI interface called Power Cinema that uses SoftPEG(TM), and is likely to capture the attention of many. The SoftPEG(TM) MPEG Decoder generates unparalleled picture and sound quality, without requiring any additional hardware. Using similar algorithms to those CompCore uses in its patented hardware MPEG products, SoftPEG(TM) out performs even some hardware MPEG decoders. It decodes MPEG-1 and displays 30 frame-per-second smooth, fully synchronized audio/video on Power PC, Pentium, 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. , and UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). platforms. SoftPEG(TM) is expected to become the most widely demanded software MPEG player. CompCore Multimedia Inc. Located in Sunnyvale, California, CompCore Multimedia, Inc. develops and licenses highly efficient audio and video decompression technology for hardware and software implementations. Having licensed its hardware MPEG core designs to 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. , Hitachi, Cirrus Logic, Zilog, and a number of other electronics companies, CompCore is now making available software solutions for licensing and distribution. An active and voting member of the ISO-US X3L3 MPEG Committee, CompCore is currently involved in many MPEG standardization efforts, including the MPEG Intellectual Property Rights Working Group, the Open MPEG-1 Initiative, and the VESA (Video Electronics Standards Association, Milpitas, CA, www.vesa.org) A membership organization founded in 1989 that sets interface standards for the PC, workstation and computing environments. Note the following VESA standards following this entry. Set Top Committee. Canopus A technology leader in personal computer solutions, Canopus is actually two sister companies: Canopus Co. Ltd., one of Japan's leading graphics card manufacturers and a pioneer of digital signal processing See DSP. Digital Signal Processing - (DSP) Computer manipulation of analog signals (commonly sound or image) which have been converted to digital form (sampled). , based in Kobe, Japan; and newly established Canopus Corporation, a multimedia product engineering firm based in San Jose, California San Jose (IPA: /ˌsænhoʊˈzeɪ/) is the third-largest city in California, and the tenth-largest in the United States. It is the county seat of Santa Clara County. . Most recently, Canopus has increased its lead in the Japanese multimedia market by delivering integrated hardware and software for sound and image manipulation with data compression. CONTACT: CompCore Multimedia, Inc. Tanya Sitterly, 408/773-8310 |
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