variednews: Velos Media Commences Novel Authorizing Platform t...

variednews: Velos Media Commences Novel Authorizing Platform t...: PLANO, Texas, March 31: Velos Media revealed that it has commenced a novel, autonomous licensing platform for sophisticated video codi...

Velos Media Commences Novel Authorizing Platform to Propel Acceptance of Newest Video Expertise, Enhance Customer Viewing Experience

PLANO, Texas, March 31: Velos Media revealed that it has commenced a novel, autonomous licensing platform for sophisticated video coding expertise, with a concentration on High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC), the newest expertise in video compression. With Velos Media, enterprises distributing the HEVC knowledge nowadays have stress-free and competent admittance to the complete collection of standard-essential HEVC patents from top expertise trendsetters that have made numerous of the most significant assistances to the HEVC standard, comprising Ericsson, Panasonic, Qualcomm Incorporated, Sharp as well as Sony.

The rapid expansion in video use is propelling sustained need for more bandwidth and greater picture quality, ensuing in an industry of novel gadgets and subject that utilize HEVC expertise. HEVC, as well acknowledged as H.265, distributes a considerably boosted watching capability containing exciting, high-quality images downloaded twice as swiftly, or with half the bandwidth, along with lessened stops for video buffering, contrasted to preceding video expertise. Velos Media aids transport this understanding to screens quicker, offering easy admittance to crucial patents at sensible charges and with one license, so that companies utilizing HEVC expertise in their products can duly transport a leading customer experience to their clients.

“We’re streamlining the patent licensing process by offering a single license to end user product companies that manufacture or sell HEVC-enabled devices, thereby creating a solution for them and patent holders alike,” revealed Kasim Alfalahi, co-founder of the Marconi Group, an entity formed to create, launch and support new patent licensing platforms, including Velos Media, adding, “This solution is available to all who wish to participate, and we welcome interest from other innovators who have contributed to the HEVC standard and have patents representing those contributions. We’re excited to have Fred Telecky at the helm of Velos Media. Fred brings more than 25 years of experience in managing a highly successful licensing business at Texas Instruments.”

“With the growing popularity of video and the continued investment in new video technologies, there’s a need for a reasonable and efficient path for innovators to receive a return on their R&D investment and also for companies creating products to obtain access to the patents covering these technologies in a way that makes sense for their businesses,” revealed Fred Telecky, president of Velos Media, adding, “At Velos Media, licensees will have direct access to the most comprehensive standard-essential HEVC patent portfolio available, with one license, reducing transaction costs and time to market.”

Velos Media will authorize its HEVC patent assortment on conditions that are reasonable and non-discriminatory (RAND), with royalty charges that will boost further acceptance of the expertise and incentivize financing in new study and expansion. An authorization from Velos Media encompasses all HEVC standard-essential patents within the members’ complete existing collection, comprising future patents allowed from presently pending requests, along with all future filings by a member throughout the tenure of the license.

Velos Media is reinforced by the Marconi Group, which is creating novel platforms that alter patent authorizing through diverse expertise and products. The Marconi Group will give general facilities for every novel authorizing platform, presenting legal, finance, human assets, marketing and communications sustenance. Velos Media will be administered and run as a sovereign unit.

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variednews: Acceptance of Autonomous Mobile Robots from Fetch ...: SAN JOSE, Calif, March 31: Fetch Robotics revealed that its robots have now accomplished six months of uninterrupted function at one o...

Acceptance of Autonomous Mobile Robots from Fetch Robotics Ensures Output Boost at RK Logistics

SAN JOSE, Calif, March 31: Fetch Robotics revealed that its robots have now accomplished six months of uninterrupted function at one of the warehouses of RK Logistics Group. Ever since their utilization in August 2016, Freight robots have been functioning together with the workers at RK Logistics to aid transportation objects throughout their Livermore, CA operation.

Over the progress of this utilization, the Freight robots have made over 4,500 distributions and traversed a distance of approximately 1,000 kilometers. The material transference robots on location at RK work 24/7 over three dissimilar shifts. The chief objective of the robots is to make the workers at RK more competent by removing easy jobs for example transferring items from one portion of the warehouse to another. Up to the present time, the utilization of these robots has resulted in noteworthy upsurge in warehouse output.

“We chose Fetch Robotics over other options because we felt that Fetch would be the best partner for our business, and every day since then has validated that decision,” revealed Cindy Traver, Senior Director of Operations for RK Logistics Group, adding, “Within a few short months we saw a full ROI on our implementation, and we are able to pass the savings from this initiative on to our customers.”

"For all 1,000 kilometers that the robots have traversed our warehouse floor in the past six months, that's 1,000 kilometers that our workers haven't had to spend time transporting items," commented Landon Spring, Senior Director of Business Development & Marketing for RK Logistics Group, adding, "Fetch has partnered with us to implement programs that make our operation more efficient, but also by allocating the mundane transportation tasks away from our employees and onto the robots, we are freeing up our people for higher value work.”

RK is using the Fetch Robotics’ VirtualConveyor solution, which includes the Freight sequence of Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs) and charge docks with the Fetchcore cloud-based fleet administration software. The AMRs function together with warehouse employees in active settings that are also united with forklifts in the warehouse. The Fetch AMRs can securely do their responsibilities no matter how demanding the contiguous setting.

“For anyone that wants to see a glimpse of the future with robots and employees seamlessly working alongside each other, I encourage them to take a look at Fetch Robotics in action at RK Logistics,” as stated by Melonee Wise, CEO of Fetch Robotics, adding, “See for yourself how robots are the next great productivity weapon for the logistics and material handling industry.”

The routing of the robots inside the RK resource is all accomplished via Fetchcore. Fetchcore permits clients to swiftly set up and utilize the Freight robots. Fetchcore furthermore generates a facility map of warehouses; at RK, this method only took one hour. The Freight AMRs traverse vigorously utilizing the facility map, permitting the robots to organize their own trails to journey swiftly and competently anywhere they require to go. Warehouse administrators furthermore utilize Fetchcore to generate and plan workflows in a matter of minutes, and give regular job tasks. Fetchcore encompasses an extensible API for added customization.

variednews: In Collaboration with Netflix and Google, Ittiam Q...

variednews: In Collaboration with Netflix and Google, Ittiam Q...: SANTA CLARA, Calif. March 31:--Ittiam Systems, the top contributor of sophisticated video as well as visual analytics solutions and an...

In Collaboration with Netflix and Google, Ittiam Quickens Open Source VP9 Encoder

SANTA CLARA, Calif. March 31:--Ittiam Systems, the top contributor of sophisticated video as well as visual analytics solutions and an primary member of the Alliance for Open Media (AOM), has revealed accomplishment of a venture to augment the encoding promptness of the open-source VP9 encoder. The performance-optimized form, expanded in close association with Google and Netflix, is at present widely obtainable as component of libvpx, the royalty-free, open-source dissemination of VP9 software.

VP9 is a royalty-free, open-source codec advanced by Google that offers competence achievements of up to 50% in contrast to the finest H.264 implementations. VP9 has extensive support in web browsers and mobile gadgets. VP9 is the codec of selection for YouTube and was in recent times utilized by Netflix for low-bitrate mobile streaming. The teamwork between Google, Ittiam, and Netflix is geared towards recognizing and tackling crucial enhancements in the open source libvpx implementation of VP9. These enhancements will deliver substantial advantages to the bigger video streaming community. Concentrating on the disparity in speed and turnaround time in contrast to prevalent H.264 implementations, the primary set of enhancements as component of this association has resulted in a considerable lessening in turnaround time for encoding video files with the utmost quality settings. The boosted encoder can lessen encoding times by 50-70% when encoding a 1080p video on a 16-core device, while attaining even superior achievements in speed when more cores are obtainable.

“VP9 provides excellent video quality and compression efficiency that we will leverage to provide a great video streaming experience to Netflix members with < 200 Kbps of available bandwidth,” revealed David Ronca, Director of Encoding Technologies at Netflix, adding, “These impressive optimizations from Ittiam make libvpx more suitable for highly-scaled video encoding systems, and will benefit the large community of VP9 users.”

“VP9 is integral to a royalty-free video codec strategy and it is great to see industry leaders like Netflix play an active role in improving its implementation”, stated Matt Frost, Head of Strategy and Partnerships for Google’s Chrome Media Team, adding, “The impressive performance gains Ittiam has achieved will help ensure that VP9 remains a preferred video compression standard for online video applications.”

“It is a privilege for Ittiam to collaborate with Netflix and Google to enhance the usability of the VP9 encoder, as we intend to deliver optimized implementations of libvpx derivatives to the market”, remarked Mukund Srinivasan, Vice President and Head of Americas Business Strategy for Ittiam, adding, “Open video standards like VP9 and the upcoming AV1 from AOM are revolutionizing the video compression landscape. We are fully committed to applying our proven industry knowledge and video competency to open source implementations and championing the adoption of these standards.”