SISVEL and Audio MPEG Grant Creative an MPEG Audio Patent License.TURIN, Italy & ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- S.I.SV.EL. S.p.A., and its U.S. subsidiary Audio 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). , Inc. and Creative Technology announce that SISVEL and Audio MPEG have granted to Creative a standard license under the MP3 and MPEG2 audio compression Encoding digital audio data to take up less storage space and transmission bandwidth. Audio compression typically uses lossy methods, which eliminate bits that are not restored at the other end. ADPCM and MP3 are examples of audio compression methods. See audio codec and data compression. patents owned by France Telecom, TDF (language) TDF - An intermediate language, a close relative of ANDF. A TDF program is an ASCII stream describing an abstract syntax tree. TDF became part of TenDRA in abut 2001. S.A., U.S. Philips Corporation, Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V., Institut fur Rundfunktechnik GmbH, and Bayerische Rundfunkwerbung GmbH. Since Creative Technology and its subsidiaries have taken a patent license from SISVEL and Audio MPEG the parties have agreed to dismiss the litigation An action brought in court to enforce a particular right. The act or process of bringing a lawsuit in and of itself; a judicial contest; any dispute. When a person begins a civil lawsuit, the person enters into a process called litigation. and administrative proceedings pending between them. By taking a license Creative Technology has joined over 600 other companies that have taken patent licenses from Audio MPEG and SISVEL on these patents for MP3 players or other products using MPEG audio compression. |
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