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CommunicAsia 2009

S'pore tech goes to imbX

2009-06-16 21:22:02

Local firms offer sneak peak of home-grown technologies at annual tradeshow


Local technologies get air-time on the showfloor. Two units of the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*Star)--the Institute for Infocomm Research and Exploit Technologies--showcased 12 new technologies that are in the development or near-commercialization stage.

Shown in this picture is a prototype of the Scalable Multimedia Platform (SMP), which is a "world-first" technology that allows multimedia content to be encoded only once and be made available on various platforms--from mobile devices to a large-format high-definition TV. According to Tham Jo Yew, group leader of audio video processing at A*Star's Signal Processing Department, the SMP was developed by a team of eight over the last two years and is fully-compliant with ISO/IEC multimedia standards such as H.264/MPEG-4 AVC and AAC. This means the technology also is backward-compatible with existing devices in the market.

Caption by: Vivian Yeo
Photo credit: Konrad Foo