Product category: Embedded Software and Operating Systems
News Release from: Coding Technologies
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 2 April 2007
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Coding Technologies has announced that Motorola has entered into a patent license agreement with the company. Coding Technologies is the developer of the MPEG-4 aacPlus audio codec. Motorola joins a number of the world's top wireless device manufacturers, including Nokia, SonyEricsson and LG as a licensee of aacPlus.
Coding Technologies' aacPlus audio codec is widely regarded as the world's most efficient audio codec.
It is the audio codec of choice for delivering high-fidelity live and on-demand audio in a range of wireless environments, including cellular, terrestrial and satellite radio and television.
aacPlus is specified as a mandatory or recommended audio codec in a variety of PC, mobile television,Internet and radio standards, including MPEG, ISMA, DVD, DVB, DMB, 3GPP, 3GPP2 and MediaFlo.
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Enhanced encoder improves audio fidelity
Coding Technologies has announced an upgraded release of its MPEG-4 aacPlus audio encoder engine
Audio compression software runs on STM decoders
The aacPlus/DTS audio compression solution is integrated in the STi71xx MPEG-4 decoder family of chips from STMicroelectronics for MPEG-4 HDTV consumer set-top-boxes
The bandwidth efficiency of aacPlus enables broadcasters to provide their customers with compelling choices.
For example, content providers could add additional programming or deliver an enhanced aural experience, such as moving a station from stereo to 5.1 surround sound.
Additional consumer benefits include faster content download and start times and drastically reduced re-buffering interruptions.
The growing presence of aacPlus devices in the market enables operators and music distributors to innovate as they introduce digital lifestyle services such as wireless live and on-demand music, mobile television and true-music ring tones to their customers.
Motorola currently offers a variety of aacPlus enabled mobile phones including the recently announced Motorola KRZR and RIZR phone models.
'We are pleased to see Motorola increasing its support for aacPlus', says Oliver Kunz, Vice President Patent Licensing, Coding Technologies.
'This agreement underscores Motorola's passion to stay on the cutting edge of mobile multimedia'.
Coding Technologies' aacPlus audio codec solutions empower some of the world's most demanding and cutting-edge wireless music and television services including, AOL, KDDI, NTT DoCoMo, REAL, Sprint and XM Satellite Radio.
In the mobile space, Coding Technologies estimates that the number of aacPlus-enabled mobile phones sold worldwide by the end of 2006 approached 200 million units.
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