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Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits
Fraunhofer IIS’ new technologies and codecs enable a variety of high-performance home entertainment applications. Viewing the latest movies in superior movie theatre quality; enjoying concerts in surround sound via digital radio; storing music in lossless quality for playback anywhere in your home: all of these scenarios – and many others – are now achievable thanks to advances made by Fraunhofer IIS. Resource-optimized software for a large number of processors and platforms, open standard technology with fair license terms and professional support make Fraunhofer IIS a popular partner for CE device manufacturers worldwide.
Consumer Electronics
Audio codecs:
- mp3: The standard for compressed music
- AAC-LC: Most common AAC profile, used e.g. by iPod
- HE-AAC, HE-AAC v2: Improved quality below 64 kbit/s
- AAC-ELD, AAC-LD: Full bandwidth, low delay audio coding
- HD-AAC: Lossless audio coding compatible to AAC
- MPEG Surround: 5.1 sound at stereo bitrates
- mp3 Surround: 5.1 sound at mp3 stereo bitrates
- MPEG SAOC*: Music 2.0: Interactive remixing / karaoke
Video Codecs:
Surround Audio Technologies:
- mp3 SX: Enhances stereo mp3 files towards 5.1
- MPEG Surround: 5.1 sound at stereo bitrates
- SX Pro: Creates surround content from any stereo content
- mp3 Surround: 5.1 sound at mp3 stereo bitrates
- mp3D: Improved playback of stereo and 5.1 over headphones
- HE-AAC, HE-AAC v2: For discrete 5.1 sound at low bit-rates
Communication:
- Audio Communication Engine: Complete solution for high-quality communication applications
- AAC-ELD, AAC-LD: Full bandwidth, low delay audio coding
Streaming Systems:
- Streaming clients for the Apple iPhone® SDK
* currently under standardization in MPEG
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