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KDDI R&D Labs to Showcase H.264/MPEG-4 AVC Encoder/Decoder

Posted on: Monday, 12 April 2004, 06:00 CDT

PALO ALTO, Calif., April 12 /PRNewswire/ -- KDDI R&D Laboratories, a division of Japan's global telecommunications company KDDI Corporation, will introduce its H.264/MPEG-4 AVC encoder/decoder, MPEG authoring and transmission software for the professional and "prosumer" markets at the NAB 2004 Show in Las Vegas from April 19 to April 22, 2004. The featured products and technologies are recently standardized H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, and MPEG-2/MPEG-4 solutions for broadband, mobile and HDTV applications including:

1) MP-Factory ver.4.0 -- Universal MPEG SDK for MPEG-1/-2/-4 and

H.264/MPEG-4 AVC standards featuring: real-time

encoding/decoding/transcoding, frame accurate fast editing, fast

audio/video bitrate conversion, and content-based fast audio/video

indexing. The product also supports fast H.264/MPEG-4 AVC

encoding/decoding. Common and useful APIs for each MPEG format are

provided for Windows, MAC, Linux, and UNIX operating systems.

2) MPEG Intelli Player ver.1.2 -- Professional MPEG-1/-2/-4 and

H.264/MPEG-4 AVC software player for frame accurate playback,

intelligent trick play and mark-in/out operations with MPEG (IBP)

files. Users can easily play back MPEG-2 SDTV and HDTV, MPEG-4 and

H.264 files, and can browse or find desired scenes using fast/slow,

single-step and forward/reverse playback capabilities with audio

scrubbing.

3) MPEG Edit Studio Pro ver.1.3 -- High-quality nonlinear MPEG-4, HDTV

MPEG-2, and recently standardized HDV (High Definition Video) editing

tool used for high quality broadband video streaming and digital TV

broadcasts. It provides nearly degradation free, frame accurate, fast

MPEG-4/MPEG-2/HDV editing for IBP. MPEG Edit Studio Pro features fast

logo insertion, scene indexing, a variety of media conversion

capabilities including the latest video coding standard, H.264/MPEG-4

AVC, and a software-based HDTV player with a jog/shuttle controller

that greatly shortens the time-consuming editing process.

4) MPmark -- supports H.264/MPEG-4 AVC and MP3 audio as well as

MPEG-2/-4 video. A new feature: watermarks can be embedded in

compressed media data directly. MPmark now supports both compressed

and uncompressed media data, so it can offer the best watermark

solutions for the format of the source media and watermark usage. The

watermark can be detected directly from the MPEG compressed bit

stream. Both the embedding and detection process move at extremely

high speeds. An SDK is provided to allow developers to create

watermark embedding/detection software.

5) Highlight Creator -- The world's first automatic summarization

software for MPEG-1/-2 video. Based on KDDI's proprietary fast and

accurate content analysis technology, Highlight Creator summarizes

input video in two forms, "Skimming" and "Highlights," and converts

summarized video into various formats for streaming and mobile use.

"Skimming" is an outline version of the original content with

preferred duration (e.g. movie storyboard) while "Highlights" is a

series of exciting events (i.e. sports highlights). Highlight Creator

can also support MPEG-7 based metadata description according to

automatically extracted summaries.

6) 3GPP2 Movie Creator Family -- Video content encoding and authoring

software for mobile applications such as "EZmovie.""EZmovie" is

KDDI's 3rd generation mobile video application based on MPEG-4 and

3GPP2 file format standards together with KDDI's proprietary

technology. A sophisticated MPEG-4 encoding engine allows high quality

compression to be achieved. Conversion gateway software and an SDK for

creating an "EZmovie" file are provided.

7) Digivits -- Provides integrated video transmission monitoring by

automatically measuring video quality at each remote link point in the

transmission chain. Reduced Reference (RR) and in-service test signal

(ISTS) methods are supported for video quality metrics. Proprietary

technologies for RR and ISTS metrics make highly reliable and precise

video quality measurement possible and thus invaluable for

broadcasters and communication carriers.

8) VISIONTRANS/VistaFinder/VAST-ip-

VISIONTRANS: PAL/NTSC TV standard conversion software is provided as

an SDK for third party system integration. It is a software

implementation of KDDI's proprietary TV standard hardware converter,

and its picture quality is guaranteed by front-line performance in TV

transmission of past Olympic Games. The software is highly tuned to

achieve high speed conversion on ordinary PCs.

VistaFinder/VAST-ip: VistaFinder and VAST-ip solutions are

broadcaster quality video transmission systems for IP networks.

VistaFinder is a portable system, and VAST-ip is a station -installed

system. Both systems support high speed, reliable transmission

protocol, and provide stable picture quality over any kind of network.

VistaFinder now supports H.264/MPEG-4 AVC to achieve higher picture

quality and faster video material transmission.

9) VISION-SW -- automatically switches parallel TV transmission links

when a transmission failure occurs, thereby preventing the delivery of

incomplete pictures. Monitoring is done by comparing two base-band

received pictures. When both links are normal, it utilizes both

pictures to improve the picture quality. In addition, it can estimate

the quality of the received pictures.

10) DHS-2000 -- Hardware HDTV codec that enables low delay and high

quality transmission (50~100Mbps) of HDTV programs based on a JPEG2000

coding framework with newly introduced coding technologies.

The technologies developed by KDDI R&D Labs are available for licensing, distribution or OEM to companies worldwide. Potential customers include multimedia, DVD, 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, KDDI R&D Laboratories is the research division of Japan's telecom giant, KDDI Corporation. From basic research to developing new applications, its activity covers: Photonic Networking, Mobile & Wireless, IP networking, Multimedia Applications, and Ubiquitous Networking. KDDI Labs USA, the U.S. subsidiary based in Palo Alto, California, is a facilitator for bringing KDDI R&D Labs' technologies to the U.S. market to enhance the presence of KDDI R&D Labs. For more information, please visit http://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 and is 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 across Japan and spans 20 countries worldwide. KDDI was established in October 2000 as a result of the merger of KDD -- Japan's first international telephone and telegraph company founded in 1953 -- with DDI and IDO, domestic and mobile telecommunications companies. KDDI's total customer base includes over million long-distance telephone subscribers, 20 million mobile telephone subscribers, and 2.5 million Internet service subscribers. For more information, please visit http://www.kddi.com/.

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Contact: Kazuo Hashimoto of KDDI R&D Laboratories

media@kddilabs.com

(650) 566-8165

KDDI R&D Laboratories

CONTACT: Kazuo Hashimoto of KDDI R&D Laboratories, +1-650-566-8165,media@kddilabs.com

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