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  • High Precision in Road Construction: Use Of Satellite Navigation For Asphalt Machines

    Presseinformation 
    09.05.2012 
    Project staff ASPHALT

    The Fraunhofer IIS, together with MOBA and other partners, has successfully concluded the „ASPHALT“ project (Advanced Galileo navigation System for asPHALt fleeT machines). The concluding meeting took place close to Enspel (Westerwald). With the aid of satellite navigation, road construction can be significantly improved in the future. To this end, the IIS has developed a special Galileo/GPS/EGNOS receiver.

  • Wireless Sensor Networks on the Test Bench: Novel Evaluation Kit for Measurement and Control Applications

    Presseinformation 
    20.04.2012 
    s-net® evaluation kit »DATA«

    s-net® is a highly energy efficient solution in the field of wireless sensor networks. The Fraunhofer IIS technology is now available as evaluation kit and is being showcased for the first time at the trade show Hannover Messe Industrie. With s-net®, planned applications can be tested at the designated location, whether metrology, surveillance or control application.

  • Fraunhofer IIS Wins Prestigious 2012 NAB Innovation Award

    Press Release 
    19.04.2012 
    Harald Fuchs (l.), Fraunhofer IIS, wins NAB Technology Innovation Award 2012

    Fraunhofer IIS, the world’s renowned source for audio and multimedia technologies, announces today that its Dialogue Enhancement technology has been selected by the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) for its 2012 NAB Technology Innovation Award. Dialogue Enhancement answers broadcasters’ challenge to deliver balanced dialog and ambient sounds for TV and radio.

  • The Fraunhofer IIS AAC Family – Ideal for MPEG DASH based Adaptive Streaming

    Press Release 
    17.04.2012 

    At NAB, Fraunhofer IIS will demonstrate the benefits of its HE-AAC Multichannel and MPEG Surround Audio Codecs for Dynamic Adaptive Streaming. Fraunhofer IIS, the world’s renowned source for audio and multimedia technologies, played a major role in the development of the ISO MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) standard ratified in November 2011.

  • Digital Film Technology Integrates Fraunhofer IIS’s easyDCP Post Production Software

    Press Release 
    16.04.2012 

    easyDCP allows for easy generation and play-out of digital cinema packages and offers a high quality, cost-effect way to create a variety of distribution formats. Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS, the world’s renowned source for audio and multimedia technologies, announces today its partnership with Digital Film Technology (DFT), the supplier of professional solutions for postproduction, motion picture and TV industries. The new partnership integrates Fraunhofer IIS’s easyDCP into DFT’s FLEXXITY workflow, providing a more cost-effective way to create digital cinema packages (DCP) as a master format.

  • Fraunhofer IIS Previews DAW Plug-in from Sonnox for “Mastered for iTunes”

    Press Release 
    16.04.2012 

    New version 2 of the Sonnox Fraunhofer Pro-Codec Plug-in comes with iTunes Plus codec and multi-channel support. At NAB in Las Vegas, Fraunhofer IIS shows a preview of the new upgrade of the award winning Sonnox Fraunhofer Pro-Codec Plug-in for digital audio workstations. The new version of the plug-in will come with easy and intuitive tools for mastering engineers to mix their music for the “Mastered for iTunes” program. Furthermore, the plug-in will support the latest multi-channel audio codecs such as MPEG Surround. The upgrade will be available in July for free for all current users of the Sonnox Fraunhofer Pro-Codec.

  • Fraunhofer and Intopix present DCP creation with real-time JPEG 2000 coding

    Press Release 
    13.04.2012 

    Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS and Intopix cooperate in order to accelerate the creation process and mastering of digital cinema packages (DCP). The well-known software package easyDCP developed by Fraunhofer IIS now supports the hardware acceleration board PRISTINE from Intopix to allow for faster encoding of JPEG 2000 files, both visually or mathematically lossless, for resolutions from HD up to 4K. This extends the possibilities for post production facilities to optimize and speed up their workflow of DCP creation.

  • Fraunhofer IIS Supports “European Film Gateway EFG1914” Project to Preserve Cultural Film Heritage

    Press Release 
    12.04.2012 
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    The Erlangen based Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS partners in the project European Film Gateway EFG1914. The institute provides technical and scientific expertise on digitizing film material and photographs from and about World War I to create a wide availability of the collection. Since the project’s kick-off in February 2012, 20 European film archives as well as five businesses and research institutions have been cooperating in digitizing up to 650 selected hours of film and about 500,000 photos, film posters, censorship material etc. from the period. The digital collection will be made available to the public.

  • GoalRef Goal-Line Technology Advances

    Press Release 
    05.03.2012 
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    The International Football Association Board (IFAB) announced that it had shortlisted two goal-line technologies and approved them for a final round of testing. One of the remaining candidates is the GoalRef system developed by the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS, which is based in Erlangen, Germany. Fraunhofer IIS scientists are fielding a radio-based solution that tells the referee immediately whether or not a goal should be awarded.

  • Energy-efficient, Smart, Networked – Innovative Embedded Systems Heading for Success

    Press Release 
    27.02.2012 
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    Mobile, energy-efficient solutions with great flexibility in adapting to new requirements and changing ambient conditions pose challenges for the design and development of embedded systems. At the embedded world fair 2012 in Nuremberg, Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS features new generation solutions and results: guaranteeing self-sufficient, long-term operation of embedded sensors and wireless communications technology based on energy harvesting technologies or intelligent energy concepts.

  • Fraunhofer IIS Presents the World’s First Full-HD Voice Calls on Android Phones over LTE at Mobile World Congress 2012

    Press Release 
    23.02.2012 
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    Interactive Full-HD Voice demo available on www.full-hd-voice.com

  • Fraunhofer IIS Premiers Extended HE-AAC at Mobile World Congress 2012

    Press Release 
    22.02.2012 

    The new member of the AAC audio codec family enables improved speech and music audio quality at low bit rates.

  • Berlinale Relies on Fraunhofer IIS Expertise to Test Digital Film Formats

    Press Release 
    06.02.2012 
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    According to the latest market analysis more than half of all worldwide movie screens have been converted to digital cinema. Especially for smaller post-production houses, mastering DCPs (digital cinema packages) can be a challenge. In order to have all movies ready for screening on February 9th for the opening of the Berlin International Film Festival, called Berlinale, Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS supports the technical quality control of all submissions of data media and movies in the DCP format.Datenträger und Filme im DCP-Format.

  • Fraunhofer MPEG Surround Format chosen for BBC Radio Drama download

    Press Release 
    03.02.2012 

    Starting February 4th, the drama ‘Private Peaceful’ will be available for download in 5.1 Surround Sound Fraunhofer IIS, the world’s renowned source for audio and multimedia technologies, today announces its continuing online experiments with the BBC and MPEG Surround Codec. After the success of the “Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols” MPEG Surround streaming experiment during Christmas 2011, the BBC is offering a radio play for download in 5.1 MPEG Surround for the first time.

  • Personal Music Service AUPEO! Enables Surround in the Car and the Living Room

    Presseinformation 
    05.01.2012 

    At CES and Detroit Auto Show, Fraunhofer IIS, AUPEO! and Panasonic Automotive Demonstrate High-quality Surround Internet Radio Streaming.

  • Fraunhofer IIS and Sonnox Present the Sonnox Fraunhofer Codec Plug-In for Consumers at CES

    Presseinformation 
    05.01.2012 

    New plug-in provides mastering quality audio codecs to aspiring musicians for use in consumer music recording software.

News

  • Fraunhofer IIS Becomes Tensilica Authorized Design Center Partner

    Tensilica, Inc. today announced that Fraunhofer IIS, the world's renowned source for audio and multimedia technologies, has joined Tensilica's Xtensions partner network and become an authorized design center. Fraunhofer IIS will support mutual customers with their audio-related SOC (system-on-chip) designs.

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