Exhibitions
Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits
IFA Berlin
Exhibits:
Telepresence for the living room: Join your friends and family for virtual board games via video conference
With the audio and video technologies from Fraunhofer IIS it is possible to get together with friends and family – however far away they might be – for social activities such as general conversation and the playing of virtual board games. Making contact over the Internet in this way is as natural as having a conversation with everyone present in the same room. The set-up to be shown at IFA is part of “Together Anywhere, Together Anytime” (TA2), an EU project exploring the ways in which technology can support group-to-group communication.
Contact: Matthias Rose amm-info@iis.fraunhofer.de
Digital Radio DRM+ Live Broadcasting chain
At IFA, Fraunhofer IIS will present a DRM+ Live Broadcasting chain in conjunction with RFmondial, University Hannover and Niedersächsische Landesmedienanstalt. DRM+ is the much-publicised extension of the well-established DRM digital radio standard for higher frequencies including UKW. To demonstrate this new standard at IFA, the Fraunhofer DRM ContentServer™ will be employed to generate a DRM+ radio signal that includes 5.1 MPEG Surround sound and the Journaline® text information service. This signal will be broadcast with the RFmondial DRM+ modulator. At the Fraunhofer booth, visitors can enjoy the audio signal in outstanding 5.1 surround quality and can browse the text information service.
Contact: Matthias Rose amm-info@iis.fraunhofer.de
About Fraunhofer IIS
Fraunhofer IIS, based in Erlangen, Germany, is the home of the Audio and Multimedia division, which has been working in compressed audio technology for more than 20 years and remains a leading innovator of technologies for cutting-edge multimedia systems. Fraunhofer IIS is universally credited with the development of mp3 and co-development of AAC (Advanced Audio Coding) as well as technologies for the media world of tomorrow, including MPEG Surround, MPEG Spatial Audio Object Coding and the Fraunhofer Audio Communication Engine.
Through the course of more than two decades, Fraunhofer IIS has licensed its audio codec software and application-specific customizations to at least 1,000 companies. Fraunhofer estimates that it has enabled more than 1 billion commercial products worldwide using its mp3, AAC and other media technologies.
The Fraunhofer IIS organization is part of Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, based in Munich, Germany. Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft is Europe’s largest applied research organization and is partly funded by the German government. With nearly 17,000 employees worldwide, Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft is composed of 59 Institutes conducting research in a broad range of research areas.
For more information, contact Matthias Rose amm-info@iis.fraunhofer.de, or visit www.iis.fraunhofer.de/amm.
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