Digital Video and Entertainment

Digital techniques are transforming video for use everywhere, from the movie theater to the Internet. This transformation creates new opportunities and subsequently, new challenges. Sarnoff has been a major source of video technology since the very beginning, and continues to create advancements in one of the world’s most pervasive industries — from television and digital cinema to video displays, cameras and recorders.

Sarnoff, winner of nine Emmy® awards for outstanding achievement in technical advancement, creates new approaches in such areas as:

• Image quality testing
• Bandwidth congestion management for video over DSL
• Compliance Bitstreams that evaluate the performance of MPEG-based video decoders
• Electronic display technology for consumer products
• Advanced video processing ICs and software tools
• Error concealment using frame rate reduction, or tweening