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Never heard of xHE-AAC? Almost all digital streaming services depend on it. In today's Q&A, Jan Nordmann, GM of the Audio and Multimedia team at @FraunhoferIIS USA Digital Media Technologies, lifts the veil. #technology #patents #openstandards #InnovationStartsHere
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Jan explains how xHE-AAC has evolved to power everything from television broadcasting to music and video #streaming to videoconferences. Tomorrow: Rich audio messagaing. #InnovationStartsHere #technology #patents
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If you missed the first Q&A, or want to watch Jan's full interview at once, visit our YouTube channel: youtube.com/watch?v=W1uvDVbP… and be sure to 'like' and subscribe!
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Have you noticed that the audio quality of streaming and voice calls keeps getting better? That's thanks to years of hard work by engineers like Jan Nordmann at Fraunhofer. Watch to understand how. #openstandards #technology #innovation #digitalaudio
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In our latest #InnovationStartsHere Q&A series, Jan explains how his team helped develop the xHE-AAC #standard for voice messages -- and how #patents and patent #licensing are essential to the business model of an organisation dependent on licensing revenues.
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In the last of several short Q&As with @InterDigitalCom Senior Director of Research and Innovation Gaëlle Martin-Cocher, she explains why #patent licensing is the essential fuel that keeps the innovation system running. #technology #research #innovation @WIPO @EU_IPO
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The @EU_Commission's #IPRED study has placed a misleading figure at the centre of current debate about European #patent enforcement policy. Our latest blog explains how and why that matters. ipeurope.org/blog/how-flawed… #technology #innovation #patents #injunctions
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In today's #InnovationStartsHere Q&A, @InterDigitalCom Senior Director of Research and Innovation Gaëlle Martin-Cocher explains how innovation in the lab reaches the market by way of patents, international technical standards and patent licensing. #technology #research #innovation #patents
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In today's #InnovationStartsHere Q&A, @InterDigitalCom Senior Director of Research and Innovation Gaëlle Martin-Cocher describes some of the many different technologies needed to deliver augmented reality experiences. #technology #research #innovation #patents
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In the second of our latest video Q&A series, @InterDigitalCom Senior Director of Research and Innovation Gaëlle Martin-Cocher describes some of the exciting new use cases for augmented reality. #technology #research #innovation #patents
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Tomorrow: How AR integrates several different technical standards into a new kind of user experience. If you don't want to wait, you can see the full YouTube version of the Q&A here: youtube.com/watch?v=vLaUf8jJ…
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In the first of a series of new video Q&As that explain why #InnovationStartsHere, Gaëlle Martin-Cocher, Senior Director of Research and Innovation at IP Europe member @InterDigitalCom, talks about--and demonstrates--augmented reality. #technology #research #innovation #patents
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She explains how #AR can let students, gamers, shoppers and others interact with virtual for an immersive experience. Those kinds of tech are the work of lots of engineers and #standards-development organisations, of course. The series of Q&As will explain how that happens.
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How does technology like 6G sensing technology get from the lab to the market? Milind Kulkarni, VP and head of @InterDigitalCom's Wireless Lab, explains. #technology #research #innovation #patents #openstandards #licensing #InnovationStartsHere
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What’s the connection between intellectual property (#IP) and European growth and #competitiveness? That was the question at a roundtable hosted by MEP @jorgenwarborn in partnership with @ericsson. The answer: incentives. More: ipeurope.org/blog/what-does-… #InnovationStartsHere
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Encouraging participation in the development of international technical #standards—which depends, in part, on IP–is another lever, he said. “When it comes to #standardisation, it is an area we need to step up our game."
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"We need to make sure we hold our leadership”, @jorgenwarborn said. He underlined the broader stakes: “This is a geopolitical game, not only a business game. And we have to make sure that Europe is leading that game.” #InnovationStartsHere
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