Multimedia CODECs

With the explosion of new connected devices like smartphones, MIDs, netbooks and consumer appliances, and a variety of new applications, the demand for enhanced multimedia experiences is on the rise. HD video is increasingly being sought even as screen sizes continue to shrink. Power budgets on devices are falling even though the demand for power-intensive multimedia applications is increasing. The challenge is to not only exploit available hardware capabilities to the fullest but to do so with shorter time to market. Original Design Manufacturers (ODMs), Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs), and Consumer Electronics (CE) vendors are also facing the challenges associated with multi-vendor, multi-solution management and are increasingly exploring a holistic multimedia experience from a single source. And finally, consumers are seeking new “connected multimedia experiences” for their homes.

We help clients address these challenges by providing pre-packaged multimedia CODECs (coders and decoders) that enables accelerated launch of differentiated products for mobile TV, messaging, video conferencing and streaming media. Aricent’s multimedia CODECs are pre-optimized for various target platforms, resulting in unparalleled performance improvements relative to open source CODECs. They are also pre-integrated on the target platform, which improves performance while reducing cost and accelerating time-to-market.

Aricent’s Multimedia CODECs are shipped in over 120 million devices annually and have been shipped in over 600 million devices to date

Benefits

Save CPU Processing Power

Our CODECs are pre-optimized for multiple processors (e.g. ARM, TI, Marvell and Intel) and operating systems (e.g. Symbian, Windows Mobile, BREW, Java and Android), resulting in considerable savings of up to 44% in CPU processing power, which extends battery life for video recording and playback.

Reduce Development and Integration Cycles

Our CODECs are backed by an extensive range of product lifecycle services that help you shorten application development and integration cycles for a variety of devices (Mobile Handsets, PDAs, MIDs, PMPs and DPFs).

Compliant and Interoperable

Our CODECs are standards compliant, have low memory and power footprint, and are tested for interoperability with a variety of devices and applications.

Ease of Integration

Aricent also offers multimedia system plug-ins e.g. Symbian MMF/MDF, Windows Mobile DShow, Linux GStreamer, Android PacketVideo OpenCORE and OpenMax that enable ease of integration with various operating systems.

Supports Emerging Standards

Aricent continually invests in upgrading its multimedia suite to support emerging standards such as Mobile TV, DVB-H, and Hi-Definition playback.

Features

Aricent’s multimedia CODECs deliver superior performance and power improvements and provide a wide range of multimedia engines, including Video and HD Video CODECs, Audio CODECs, Speech CODECs, Image CODECs and Image, Audio, and Video processing software. These engines allow you to rapidly integrate innovative applications like video messaging into new device platforms.

Audio/Speech processing

  • AEC Time Domain Solution
  • Audio Post Processing Lib
  • AEC Time Domain Solution
  • AEC Freq Domain Solution

Image processing

  • Panorama Stitch
  • Low Light Enhancement
  • Red Eye Detection & Correction
  • 3D Effects
  • Image Stabilization
  • Image De-ionizing
  • Bad Pixel Correction
  • Image De-mosaicing
  • Lens Shading Correction

Video processing

  • Scaling
  • Color Conversion
  • Rotation
  • Video Stabilization
  • Transition Effects
  • Color Effects
  • Sketch Effects
  • Deformation Effects
  • Whirlpool Effect
  • Fisheye Effect
  • Film Grain Effect/Old Film Effect
  • Arbitrary Image Rotation
  • Segmentation