Zoran Corporation today announced that it’s agreed to buy Let It Wave, a Paris-based fabless semiconductor company that delivers patent-pending technology for video Frame Rate Conversion and image enhancement capabilities for flat panel televisions.
Let It Wave officials say the company developed proprietary Motion Compensated Frame Rate Conversion technology in order to reduce motion blur on LCD TVs. It uses 24 images per second, which requires conversion to 60 or 120Hz for best viewing quality, according to the company.
The MCFRC technology by Let It Wave enables production of sharper images and using its superior Bandlet technologies to reduce judder by creating additional frames, company officials say. The solution also determines the direction of motion regularity, deploying its multi-scale geometrical processing, and improves upon the traditional block-search algorithms, according to the company. Zoran aims at delivering high-performance image processing to ensure artifact-free true-MCFRC for flat panel televisions and other video consumer electronics products, company officials say.
Ram Ofir, senior vice president and general manager of Zoran’s home entertainment division, said that with this acquisition, the company is confident of driving the rapid adoption of 120Hz processing into the mainstream DTV market, as integrating the Let It Wave team with Zoran’s in-house highly qualified team of video and image processing engineers, delivery of highest-quality video solutions to multiple fast-growing consumer electronics markets can be ensured. He said that the foremost target market of Zoran with this technology will be 120Hz LCD TVs, and the company expects to have the first samples of its MCFRC solution available for customer integration by the end of this year.
Professor Stephane Mallat, chairman and co-founder of Let It Wave, said that the innovative approach of the company toward video processing has brought outstanding video quality without the common artifacts seen in solutions based upon current motion adaptive and motion compensated technologies. Instead of relying on a single motion computation per pixel, bandlet algorithms incorporated in the Let In Wave technology perform a full spatio-temporal analysis of the video to perform advanced geometrical interpolations and filtering, according to the company, doing away with blurring, ghosting and shadowing artifacts. Mallat said that television viewers immediately see improved image quality on sets using this technology.
Let It Wave will be acquired by Zoran in an all-cash transaction amounting to $27.6 million according to the agreement.
Arvind Arora is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Arvind’s articles, please visit his columnist page.
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