MPEG-LA has announced the availability of its licensing program for essential patents involved in ATSC 3.0
The next-generation TV transmission technology is currently available in South Korea and a number of US television markets. It boasts higher audio and video quality, improved compression efficiency, enhanced accessibility, personalisation, interactivity, and advanced emergency alert service capability.
The ATSC 3.0 Patent Portfolio License provides one-stop access to patents that are essential to the next generation broadcast standard developed by the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC).
“MPEG LA is proud to continue its role in support of the broadcast industry’s next-generation terrestrial broadcast system that began with our licenses for the ATSC 1.0 standard and the MPEG-2 video compression standard used in ATSC 1.0,” said MPEG LA President and CEO Larry Horn. “As a convenience to ATSC 3.0 implementers and the potential that ATSC 3.0 brings to market, our ATSC 3.0 Licence will continue MPEG LA’s rich and reliable tradition of addressing the market’s need for transactional efficiency and predictability in accessing necessary intellectual property rights owned by many different organisations under a single licence.”
The initial patent owners to MPEG LA’s ATSC 3.0 License are CableLabs; Cerinet; Communications Research Centre Canada; Dolby Laboratories; KPN; Philips; NEC; NHK; ONE Media; Panasonic; Shanghai National Engineering Research Center of Digital Television Co., Ltd (NERC-DTV); and Sun Patent Trust.
