Thomson to Unveil Never-Before-Seen Advanced Research Demonstrations at IBC 2008

August 20, 2008

Source: Thomson-Grass Valley

Thomson will showcase cutting-edge technologies that facilitate compression, networking and signal acquisition and processing domains developed by its research centers during the International Broadcasting Conference (IBC) September 11-16. Returning to the RAI Exhibition and Congress Centre, IBC attendees will be able to interact with Thomson's five research demonstrations as well as attend four presentations that address the broadcast, film, home networking and mobile industries.

"In the ever-changing landscape of the business, media and entertainment industries, Thomson is committed to developing forward-thinking solutions and technologies that address these industries' greatest challenges," said Gary Donnan, vice-president and head of Thomson's Corporate Research. "This year at IBC we are unveiling advanced research technologies that will creatively impact content creation, distribution and consumption."

The following demonstrations will showcase Thomson's continued global leadership position in industry-leading technologies, systems and services.

ADVANCED RESEARCH DEMONSTRATIONS:

Area of Focus: COMPRESSION

Automatic Reframing applied to 4:3 Format Conversion
With an enhanced viewing experience, a simplified workflow, and a reliable solution, Thomson's Automatic Reframing demonstration is applied to 4:3 format conversions where the focus is on the 16:9 to 4:3 conversions rather than small screen devices. Solutions are based on the detection of the region of interest and show comparisons with today's manual reframing procedures for DVD production.

SVC Integrated Technologies

Free-to-air DVB-H broadcast utilizing a mobile TV encoder delivers real-time SVC (Scalable Video Coding) encoding, adaptation to frame rates and resolutions of a variety of devices, and is applicable to both DVB-H and ATSC M/H services. With high coding gains comparable to simulcast, it supports heterogeneous terminals and improves zapping time.

Area of Focus: NETWORKING

DVB-IP Content Download System (CDS)
Broadcasters and home networking industries will be able to rely on Thomson's DVB-IP CDS services for the downloading of content to local storage on the home network device via a broadband IP connection. This Video-on-Demand service is based on content downloaded over a DVB-IPTV managed network that delivers content to multiple home network devices simultaneously.

Transmit Power Control for WLAN Video Streaming

Thomson's Transmit Power Control for WLAN Video Streaming proposes a WLAN-based HD video distribution system for dense deployment. It also demonstrates a transmit power control scheme that alleviates interference and improves network performance and efficiency. This wireless LAN-based HD video distribution system also cognitively adjusts radio transmit parameters.

Area of Focus: SIGNAL ACQUISITION AND PROCESSING
Lens Aberration Correction

Film and broadcast industries can improve the image quality in a camera and lens system with Thomson's sophisticated evaluation of lens aberrations such as distortion, chromatic aberration, and vignetting. Focusing on image processing, the correction of lateral chromatic aberrations (LCA) is done within the digital domain by signal processing.

Thomson's research experts will also present the following over the five-day event:

Naivete vs. Sophistication: Is Random Scheduling Enough for P2P-based IPTV Service?
Date of Presentation: September 11th, 2008
Session Name: "IPTV and the Networked Home"

Studio Genlock over Ethernet/IP Network
Date of Presentation: September 13th, 2008
Session Name: "Production Matters Onwards and Upwards"

Automatic Content Repurposing for Mobile Applications
Date of Presentation: September 14th, 2008
Session Name: "Cutting Edge"

Efficient and Reliable Mobile Video Distribution over ATCS M/H
Date of Presentation: September 14th, 2008
Session Name: "Cutting Edge"

First presented at IBC 2007, the AutoCorrect innovation will be featured at the Thomson Booth as an integrated technology within Thomson's HDC Robotic Camera. This live production tool improves the performance of content production and editing tools by use of automatic features like content analysis, metadata generation and its automatic camera control module. This is an excellent example of how a technology that was demonstrated in 2007 is now fully integrated into a Thomson product.

Thomson will present all demos at its IBC booth # Hall 1, Booth D11

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