Dolby Subsidiary Via Licensing Issues Call for Patents for MPEG-H 3D Audio Standard
Via Licensing Corp. issued a call for patents essential to the practice of the MPEG-H 3D Audio standard. MPEG-H 3D, the latest set of AV compression and transmission technologies to be standardized under the guidance of the ISO/IEC Moving Picture…
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Exports Group (MPEG), specifies the transmission and playback of audio over various speaker arrangements for broadcast and streaming in a range of use cases including home theater, automotive systems, headphones and mobile devices. “For any patent pool, the goal is to create one-stop shopping for implementers of the applicable technology,” said Roger Ross, Via Licensing president, noting the Dolby subsidiary’s success with MPEG-4 High Efficiency AAC and MPEG Surround patent pools. Via Licensing is looking to work with inventors and implementers of MPEG-H 3D Audio “to build a single source for essential MPEG-H 3D Audio patents through an efficient, consolidated offering,” Ross said Friday. Via Licensing invited persons or companies with patents or pending patent applications that they deem essential to the normative portions of ISO/IEC 23008-3 (High Efficiency Coding and Media Delivery in Heterogeneous Environments, Part 3: 3D Audio) to contact Via for information on submitting patents for “essentiality review.”