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SsimWave Can Detect Banding in Streaming

What They Say SsimWave has been granted a US patent for image and video banding detection. The patent describes the method by which the firm’s products and metric address banding effects in an image or video, including: Assessing content for banding impairments; Determining the significance and location of the impairment; Detecting the banding pixels; Creating … Read more

SsimWave Granted U.S. Patent For Image And Video Banding Detection  

SSIMWAVE®, the leader in Viewer Experience QC and Automation, announced that it has been awarded a patent for image and video banding detection. U.S. Patent No. No.63/008, 257, “Image and Video Banding Assessment,” is intended to help live and VOD streaming services detect and eradicate one of the most difficult-to-solve video quality impairments in OTT … Read more

MediaTek Launches Pentonic 700 Chipset for Premium 120Hz 4K Smart TVs

MediaTek announced the Pentonic 700, a smart TV system-on-chip (SoC) with a powerful AI processing engine for premium 120Hz 4K TVs. With AI-powered picture quality enhancements, support for Dolby Vision IQ with Precision Detail, integrated 4K120 MEMC and TCON, and gaming optimizations, the Pentonic 700 lets global TV brands elevate the all-around viewing experience for … Read more

A Smarter Steering Wheel Technology

What They Say NewElectronics reported on the development of ‘more intelligent steering wheels’ for automotive use. Using an ultra-thin complex curve construction built around flexible electronic circuit assemblies, the wheel shape includes a level of concave and convex surfacing said to be not realisable with rigid or semi-rigid printed circuit technologies, such as those implemented … Read more

14th-gen Intel Chips Could Support Ray Tracing

What They Say Intel is rumoured to be planning to bring ray tracing to its integrated graphics processors in the Intel Meteor Lake processors that are due in 2023. Wccftech.com said that technically the GPU is likely to be tiled with the CPU rather than integrated on the same chip. What We Think I confess … Read more