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 [1] testing
• Bandwidth congestion management [2] for video over DSL
• Compliance Bitstreams [3] that evaluate the performance of MPEG-based video decoders
• Electronic display technology for consumer products
• Advanced video processing [4] ICs and software tools
• Error concealment using frame rate reduction, or tweening [5]