Re: Media Testing for maclife.de
Re: Media Testing for maclife.de
- Subject: Re: Media Testing for maclife.de
- From: Roger Breton <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2008 07:57:19 -0400
> I believe we need more companies
> that are willing to invest the resources into new approaches that
> perform better than the current ones.
>
> Robin Myers
Seems to be what Nikon and Microsoft are doing now. Leaving the other
players out, as usual.
> August 27, 2008 5:44 PM PDT
> Microsoft, Nikon sign patent-sharing deal
>
> Microsoft and Nikon have signed a cross-licensing deal that gives each company
> access to the other's patents.
> Detailed terms of the Nikon deal weren't disclosed, but the companies said
> Nikon is compensating Microsoft through the alliance.
> "The companies believe that this patent cross-licensing agreement will
> substantially benefit customers of consumer products including digital
> cameras," the companies said in a statement Wednesday. "Both parties will be
> able to innovate openly with each others' technologies, enabling new features
> and products to come to market."
> Nikon and Microsoft didn't indicate what new products and features would be
> enabled through the patent agreement, but they did point to existing
> cooperative efforts involving wireless cameras and raw image formats.
> Raw images are taken directly from a camera's image sensor with little or no
> in-camera processing; the formats more detailed and flexible than JPEG, but
> they're also proprietary and specific to each camera model, and they require
> processing with software to become useful to most consumers. Windows Vista has
> the ability to display raw images as long as a camera maker supplies the
> necessary encoding and decoding software plug-in, called a codec.
Roger Breton
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