Vision
Multimedia processing is an indispensable feature in daily life,
especially in mobile applications. Users demand for higher quality
media, higher processing capability and longer battery life. This
imposed considerable design challenges on handheld product design.
In particular, video processing on handheld devices is considered
a killer-application for next-generation mobile applications.
H.264 video processing standard has been developed for next-generation
media distribution and compression. This standard promises certain
advantages over existing standards, which include drastic bandwidth
saving and/or quality improvement. However, the algorithm of H.264
standard is processing-power-hungry, making it extremely complicated
to be implemented on mobile platforms.
ASTRI is developing processing algorithms and implementation techniques
to efficiently realize the advantages of H.264 standard on a single
IC device, while maintaining low power consumption and small size.
The resulting algorithms and implementation techniques will be suitable
for next-generation mobile devices. |
