Video coding is just about to get a whole lot more efficient. Fraunhofer HHI has officially released the H.266, or Versatile Video Coding (VVC), standard, which offers improved compression up to a ...

Video coding hardware architectures form the backbone of modern multimedia systems, enabling efficient compression, transmission and real-time decoding of high-definition video streams. These ...

Over the past few years — especially with the cost of data coming down significantly — the consumption of audio and video through various streaming services has been soaring at a rapid pace. As a ...

The JPEG format for encoding still images was standardized during the 1980s and 1990s. It uses the Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT), which was developed at the end of the 1970s, and Huffman encoding.

Image and video coding encompasses a diverse array of techniques aimed at reducing the volume of visual data for storage and transmission, while preserving perceptual quality. These methods range from ...

Managing IP sat down with Nokia’s head of multimedia technologies, Ville-Veikko Mattila, to discuss the cutting-edge applications of Versatile Video Coding, and the societal challenges that could be ...

We recently completed a high-level analysis of High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) technologies. To understand the patenting and licensing scenarios around HEVC technology, we identified all patents ...

The state-of-the-art video compression standards such as MPEG2, MPEG4, H.264, DivX and VC1 are suitable for applications such as broadcast and streaming video-on-demand. Typically encoder complexity ...

Sundararajan Kumar and Vishnu Saran Nayak of Dolcera analyse the surge in inventive activity related to a video compression standard tailored to 5G networks and identify the leading innovators and ...