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
