InterDigital, Inc., Interhaptics, a software company specializing in haptics, and the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have been tapped to contribute their technologies to a new industry standard ...

Widely adopted video-coding standards are subject to obsolescence that follows a different form of “Moore’s Law.” Although silicon speed roughly doubles every 18 months, video-coding efficiency ...

MPEG and JPEG encoding of video content have been around for a long time now. It seems hard to believe, but the first product tests for MPEG-2 encoding began in the mid-1990s, with the standard ...

The folks at Media 100 must be the hardest working folks at this week’s National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) trade show in Las Vegas. In addition to a plethora of other announcements, the ...

Imagine watching Gladiator— not in the movie theater but over an Internet protocol (IP) network on a Web-enabled device. Very possibly you conjure up an image of herky-jerky video, but consider that ...

As portable handheld communication devices proliferate, vendors are adding more features, such as digital video and audio, to meet consumer demand. The ISO MPEG-4 standard is emerging as the ...