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Our Mission

We develop striking, innovative products for the broadcast industry, and for inclusion on consumer platforms. We expect to excite the industry with uncompromising performance at reasonable prices.

Who we are

Futureware is a New York metropolitan-based startup creating novel approaches to digital video processing. We are video processing specialists with a portfolio of patents and are continuing to research new applications for our technology. We offer products and licensing arrangements for applications in a broad range of broadcast-related industries. Printable literature may be found here.

Futureware is proud to be a Sustaining Member of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) and of the Society of Broadcast Engineers (SBE).

We are Video Processing Specialists

Statistical Format Conversion
  • Conversion between SDTV and HDTV formats
  • •Conversion between NTSC, PAL and SECAM broadcast television standards
  • Conversion between differing frame display rates.  This encompasses standard 3:2 pulldown, PAL-to-NTSC conversion, and playback synchronization
  • Conversion between interlaced and progressive-scan formats
Lossless Video Compression
  • Compression ratios over 10:1
Lossy Video Compression
  • MPEG-4 compression in real time
  • Ten times better compression than MPEG-2
  • Guaranteed visual quality
  • MPEG-2 transcoding

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Technology Patents

Statistical Format Conversion
  • Markkov-Predictive Transcoding
  • •De-Interlacing
  • Continuous Pulldown
  • Time Compression
Lossless Video Compression
  • Optimal Redundancy Removal
Lossy Video Compression
  • Human Visibility Model
  • HVS-Based Compression
  • MPEG-2 transcoding
  • MPEG-4 compression
  • Noise-immune Transmission
Other
  • Subjective Quality Monitoring
  • Asynchronous FIFO

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Product Literature

Literature

Description (Literature is PDF-Formatted)

Products Scheduled for Release this Year One page, two-sided.
  • Format Conversion
  • Subjective Quality Monitoring
  • Time Compression
Products Scheduled for Release the Year Four Pages, one entry per page (includes overview page)
The Format Conversion Problem A technology backgrounder describing the difficulties involved in fully embracing digital television, and Futureware's technology advances in this field
The Video Compression Problem A technology backgrounder describing Futureware's Human Visual Model and its application to compression and quality monitoring
 

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Futureware, Inc. l 475 Wall Street l Princeton l NJ 08540 l 609.924.4269
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Last modified: March 17, 2003