WELCOME TO
THE JPEG XS PATENT POOL
Fraunhofer IIS and intoPIX announce joint licensing program for JPEG XS
With the assistance of UK-based Vectis IP, German-based research institute Fraunhofer IIS and Belgian-based technology provider intoPIX, the main holders of patents essential to the ISO/IEC 21122 (JPEG XS) Standard, have created and made available a JPEG XS Patent Pool.
The goal of the JPEG XS Patent Pool, administered by Vectis IP, is to offer manufacturers, developers, and implementers a route to efficiently license JPEG XS standard-essential patents on fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory terms. This will allow licensees to have the freedom to use the new lightweight low latency JPEG XS codec under license to the pool’s patents.
Through a suitable royalty structure, the JPEG XS Patent Pool will foster the use of JPEG XS technology across different business models and use cases.
The pool administrator, Vectis IP is a UK-based IP and technology licensing company. Vectis IP supports a level playing field for IP owners and implementers and is dedicated to finding collaborative and balanced licensing solutions. With a global reach, its seasoned management team has led the formation and management of many patent pools and programs in Telecommunications and Consumer Electronics. Currently, Vectis IP is working on multiple programs covering audio, video, communications, e-commerce, and networking technologies.
About JPEG XS
JPEG XS (ISO/IEC 21122) is a new International Standard from the JPEG Committee (formally known as ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 1). It provides visually lossless image compression thanks to an interoperable low-latency lightweight coding system.
JPEG XS can be used as a mezzanine codec for any AV application. Beyond the JPEG XS Core Coding System, multiple profiles and formats have been defined allowing usage of this new codec for many applications, including, among others, the following:
Broadcast applications
Live production
AV over IP
Digital Cinema applications
Professional audio-visual systems
Consumer TV
Mobile video applications
Professional cameras
Medical Imaging
Video Surveillance and security
Automotive Infotainment
Autonomous Driving System
Set-top boxes
Low-cost visual sensors in the IoT
The JPEG XS lightweight codec enables higher resolution, frame rate, and bit depth. It also enables an increasing number of streams while safeguarding all of the advantages of an uncompressed stream, i.e. interoperability, visually lossless quality, low power consumption, low latency in coding and decoding, ease of implementation with small size on-chip (ASIC, FPGA, ...) and fast software running on general-purpose processors (CPU, GPU, …).
A simple, yet efficient, coding scheme allows latency and complexity to be kept very low while simultaneously achieving visually lossless quality at compression ratios up to 10:1 typically. JPEG XS is the first ISO standard designed for latency-critical applications offering lossless quality at very low complexity. Within these criteria, quality evaluations show very good performance over other existing codecs, with additional robustness for multi-generation applications.