KDDI R&D Labs to Showcase MPEG Authoring and Transmission Software for Mobile and HDTV Applications at NAB 2003.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers NAB2003 Booth SL3111 PALO ALTO Palo Alto, city, California Palo Alto (păl`ō ăl`tō), city (1990 pop. 55,900), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1894. Although primarily residential, Palo Alto has aerospace, electronics, and advanced research industries. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 3, 2003 New PC-based Technology for the "Prosumer (PROfessional conSUMER) A person who is very knowledgeable about a subject and likes to purchase high-quality equipment. For example, many digital cameras fall into the prosumer category. " Market Offered for Licensing KDDI R&D Laboratories, a division of Japan's global telecommunications company See telecom company. KDDI Corporation, will introduce their latest 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). authoring and transmission software for the professional and "prosumer" market at the NAB 2003 Show in Las Vegas from April 7 to April 10, 2003. The featured products and technologies are MPEG solutions for broadband, mobile and HDTV (High Definition TV) A set of digital television (DTV) standards that offer the highest resolution and sharpest picture. Although some HDTV sets are available in standard (rather square) screen sizes, the overwhelming majority of sets are wide screen, which eliminates applications:authoring software for mobile (MPEG-4) and broadband video (SMIL (Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language) Pronounced "smile." A format for delivering and synchronizing multimedia content on the Web. Introduced in the summer of 1998 by the W3C, it is a document type (DTD) of XML and provides the timing commands that ) content, fast MPEG-4 / HDTV MPEG-2 nonlinear editing software, a MPEG-4 based live video transmission system and MPEG watermarking software. "KDDI R&D Labs continues to be proactive in developing products and technology for the growing demand in mobile and HDTV applications," said Kazuo Hashimoto, 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 KDDI Labs USA. "We hope to build good partnerships with companies worldwide who can leverage our technology to provide the professional and 'prosumer' market with easy-to-use, fast and cost-effective MPEG authoring and transmission solutions." These technologies play an integral part in KDDI's strategy of mobile and the Internet convergence, culminating in the company's NAB2003 theme, "Total MPEG Solutions from Mobile to HDTV." The seven MPEG solutions featured at NAB are: 1) ezmovie(R) Creator series -- Video content encoding and authoring software for mobile applications. A sophisticated MPEG-4 encoding engine achieves high quality compression. ezmovie is KDDI's 3rd generation mobile video application based on MPEG-4 and MP4 together with KDDI's proprietary technology. It uses a GUI-based authoring tool and the program can be executed from the command line. Application software and an SDK (Software Developer's Kit) See developer's toolkit and Windows SDK. SDK - Software Developers Kit (or "Software Development Kit"). are also provided. 2) MPEG Edit Studio(R) Pro ver.1.2 -- High-quality nonlinear MPEG-4 and HDTV MPEG-2 editing tool used in high quality broadband video streaming and digital TV broadcast. It provides nearly degradation free, frame-accurate, fast MPEG-4 / MPEG-2 editing for the IBP IBP (Fraunhofer) Institut für Bauphysik (Stuttgart, Germany) IBP Interactive Business Planner IBP Integrated Bar of the Philippines IBP International Buyer Program structure. MPEG Edit Studio Pro features, such as fast logo insertion, scene indexing, a variety of conversion capabilities and a software-based HDTV player with a jog/shuttle controller, can greatly shorten the time-consuming editing process. 3) MPEG Intelli Player(TM) -- Professional MPEG -1/-2/-4 software player for frame accurate playback, intelligent trick play and mark-in/out operations of MPEG (IBP) files. Users can easily playback MPEG-2 SDTV (Standard Definition TV) A set of digital television (DTV) standards with 480 lines of resolution. All SDTV formats are interlaced, and SDTV pictures are not as sharp as progressive scan EDTV or HDTV (Enhanced Definition or High Definition). SDTV Vs. , HDTV and MPEG-4 files, and can browse or find desired scenes using fast/slow, single-step and forward/reverse playback capabilities with audio scrubbing. 4) QualityMeeting(R) -- High quality, error-resilient MPEG-4 based live audio/video transmission system over broadband IP networks. QualityMeeting can smoothly transmit audio/video streams using KDDI's proprietary bandwidth adaptive rate control technology (BARC), and audio visual error concealment technology (AVEC),even with the bandwidth changes and transmission errors which often occur over the Internet. 5) Preview Navigator(R) One -- Enables users to create and publish SMIL2.0 content for the RealOne(TM) player, with interaction, navigation and presentation functionalities. Detailed settings can be made by using simple operations, and rich streaming content can easily be created with enhancements such as on-demand presentation, timed-web navigation, and synchronized thumbnail indexes. 6) Digivits(TM) -- Provides integrated video transmission monitoring by automatically measuring video quality at each remote link point of transmission chains. Reduced Reference (RR) and in-service test signal (ISTS ISTS Institute for Security Technology Studies ISTS Individual Sewage Treatment Systems ISTS Institute for Space and Terrestrial Science ISTS Intel Science Talent Search ISTS International Sea Turtle Society ISTS Ion Source Test Stand ) methods are supported for video quality metrics. Proprietary technologies for RR and ISTS metrics that allows highly reliable and precise video quality measurement possible, makes it valuable for broadcasters and communication carriers. 7) MPmark(TM) -- Digital watermarking software for video media that is embeds a watermark watermark: see paper. See digital watermark. into original video data before compression. The watermark can be detected directly from MPEG compressed bit stream without decoding for a fast detection process. An SDK is provided to allow developers to create watermark embedding/detecting software, or develop software that controls video players according to the detected watermark, or to accept video data from a content holder, embedding watermarks in it, and returning it to the holder. The technologies developed by KDDI R&D Labs are offered for licensing, distribution or OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and to companies worldwide. Potential customers include multimedia, DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. , and broadband content production companies; software companies, broadcasters, MPEG encoder manufactures, and system integrators. For mobile applications, customers include wireless carriers, service providers, solution companies and content producers. About KDDI R&D Labs Established in 1960 under KDD KDD Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (International Conference) KDD Knowledge Discovery in Databases KDD Kokusai Denshin Denwa (Japan) KDD Key Distribution Device , KDDI R&D Laboratories is the research division of Japan's telecom giant, KDDI Corporation. From basic research to developing new applications, their activity covers: Photonic Networks, Wireless & Mobile Communications, Network Design, Operation & Management, and Multimedia & Internet. Some research highlights include: the world's fastest long-distance wireless LAN system with 18 Mbps at 2.4 GHz band, and the world's first high-capacity optical transmission method that breaks the 1 terabit-per-second barrier. KDDI Labs USA, the U.S. subsidiary based in Palo Alto, Calif., is the facilitator of bringing KDDI's technologies to the U.S. market for licensing, distribution and OEM. For more information, please visit www.kddilabs.com, email media@kddilabs.com, or call 650/566-8165. About KDDI Corporation KDDI Corporation is a global telecommunications company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, the only single company in Japan providing a comprehensive range of voice, data, Internet and mobile services to business customers and consumers. The KDDI Group consists of approximately 70 companies, with 104 offices across Japan and spanning 43 countries worldwide. KDDI was newly established in October 2000 as a merger of KDD -- Japan's first international telephone and telegraph company founded in 1953 -- DDI ddI and ddC: see AZT. and IDO Ido (ē`dō), short name of Esperandido, an artificial language that is a simplified version of Esperanto. See international language. , also telecom and wireless companies. Their total customer base includes over 10 million long-distance telephone subscribers, 20 million mobile telephone subscribers, and 2.3 million Internet service subscribers. For more information, please visit www.kddi.com. Note to Editors: KDDI R&D Labs, KDDI R&D Labs logo, ezmovie, Edit Studio, Intelli Player, QualityMeeting, Preview Navigator, Digivits and MPmark are trademarks and registered trademarks of KDDI Corporation or of KDDI R&D Labs in Japan. |
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