Excalibur to Deliver Breakthrough Video Analysis, Indexing and Retrieval Functionality to Microsoft NetShow Developers.VIENNA, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 26, 1998-- Excalibur Video Analysis Engine (VAE n. 1. See Voe. ) Positioned As Universal Standard For Video Applications Development Excalibur Technologies (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : EXCA EXCA Exchangeable Card Architecture EXCA European Expanded Clay Association (Brussels, Belgium) ), the world leader in knowledge retrieval solutions, today announced a marketing and distribution agreement with Microsoft whereby Excalibur will integrate their newly developed Video Analysis Engine (VAE) with Microsoft NetShow(R)(3.0) and the combined offering will be made available to Microsoft NetShow developers and users. Excalibur VAE is a robust development environment for managing analog and digital video assets and will deliver new functionality to NetShow developers, using ActiveX technology, such as scene change detection and video analysis, storyboarding, and indexing. Microsoft NetShow provides an easy, powerful way to stream multimedia content across intranets and the Internet, giving content providers, corporations, developers, and Web professionals the ability to integrate audio and video into any Web application or site. Excalibur is positioning the new VAE for Microsoft NetShow to become the universal standard for application developers to rapidly analyze, index and retrieve video in order to perform additional processing on the video or specific frames. "We are excited about the compelling new functionality the Excalibur Video Analysis Engine brings to NetShow," said Anthony Bay, general manager, Internet Services Business Unit, Microsoft Corp. "Excalibur's new video technologies will offer NetShow users leading capabilities for indexing, analysis and manipulation of video in an Internet or corporate intranet environment." In a separate announcement today, Excalibur outlined a two-tiered strategy to: --position VAE as an enabling technology targeted at integrators and OEMs interested in developing leading-edge video applications; --deliver a comprehensive suite of video products utilizing VAE and aimed at more than 3,000 companies in the media, entertainment and broadcasting industries who need to automate To turn a set of manual steps into an operation that goes by itself. See automation. the analysis, indexing and retrieval of their video assets. Excalibur's new video strategy is a complementary extension of its knowledge retrieval solutions strategy and is a natural response to the growing demand from media, entertainment and broadcasting companies Noun 1. broadcasting company - a company that manages tv or radio stations company - an institution created to conduct business; "he only invests in large well-established companies"; "he started the company in his garage" that have expanding libraries of analog and digital media and are currently forced to index, archive and retrieve these assets manually. Excalibur's new family of products will be the first comprehensive and integrated solutions to provide content-based, scalable, high performance retrieval for multiple types of visual analog and digital media. It combines the strengths of Excalibur's advanced technology for video analysis and indexing with the unique strengths of Excalibur RetrievalWare's text indexing for related close captioned text. "The Microsoft - Excalibur alliance is a win - win, for all those involved and provides a rock solid foundation for Excalibur to enter a new market," said Pat Condo, president & chief executive officer of Excalibur Technologies. "We're excited about the prospects for Excalibur VAE delivering unprecedented new levels of functionality to NetShow users and we look forward to VAE becoming a video development standard in the rapidly expanding digital media market." About Excalibur Technologies Corp. Founded in 1980, Excalibur Technologies Corp. (NASDAQ: EXCA) is the pioneer of innovative Knowledge Retrieval software solutions that transform information into knowledge by empowering people and enabling organizations to analyze, index, catalog catalog, descriptive list, on cards or in a book, of the contents of a library. Assurbanipal's library at Nineveh was cataloged on shelves of slate. The first known subject catalog was compiled by Callimachus at the Alexandrian Library in the 3d cent. B.C. , browse (1) To view the contents of a file or a group of files. Browser programs generally let you view data by scrolling through the documents or databases. In a database program, the browse mode often lets you edit the data. See Web browser. , access, search, retrieve and more easily share all enterprise knowledge assets, be they paper, text, visual or video. As the world's leading developer of high-performance software products for the search and retrieval of knowledge assets over all media types, throughout Intranets, LANs/WANs, Xtranets and the internet, Excalibur products fulfill ful·fill also ful·fil tr.v. ful·filled, ful·fill·ing, ful·fills also ful·fils 1. To bring into actuality; effect: fulfilled their promises. 2. mission critical needs to leverage extant ex·tant adj. 1. Still in existence; not destroyed, lost, or extinct: extant manuscripts. 2. Archaic Standing out; projecting. intellectual property to meet a need, solve a problem or answer a question. Contact Excalibur in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. at 800/788-7758 or 703/761-3700, in the United Kingdom at 44-1344-893-444, via e-mail at info@excalib.com or visit our web site at www.excalib.com . -0- The Excalibur logo and the following are worldwide registered trademarks of Excalibur Technologies Corp.: Excalibur Technologies Corp.(R), RetrievalWare(R), Excalibur Visual RetrievalWare(R), and EFS EFS Encrypted File System (Microsoft Windows 2000) EFS Event Free Survival (survival rates in clinical trials) EFS Evangeliska Fosterlandsstiftelsen (Sweden) (R). APRP APRP Adaptive Pattern Recognition Processing (Convera) APrP A Priori Probability (TM), The Excalibur Edge(TM) partners program and their respective logos are trademarks of Excalibur Technologies Corp. All other names or marks may be registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective owners. CONTACT: Excalibur Technologies Corporate Contact: Carter B. Cromley, 703/761-3700 ccromley@excalib.com or Slater slat·er n. 1. One employed to lay slate surfaces, as on roofs. 2. See pill bug. 3. See sow bug. Noun 1. PR Press Contact: Terri Slater, 508/650-3904 tslater@slaterpr.com |
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