[M4IF Discuss] RE: [M4IF News] Results M4IF Fairfax Meeting

William J. Fulco wjf NetworkXXIII.com
Tue May 7 20:05:17 EDT 2002


Dan,
I don't know if it's a matter of "getting rich" - face/body animation and
structured audio need computer-power to be useful - and to do a good job, a
decent amount of it (to generate some of this stuff)... video can be done in
analog without even a computer - and so can video-compression...   there is
(and has been for quite a few decades) a large market for video stuff -
cameras, transmission, broadcast, storage etc etc - all which drove a lot of
companies to solve real world problems for things like compressing video...
and companies - especially big companies like to protect their IP and can
afford to patent things -- smaller firms or universities tend to want to be
more "open" about IP and the last few decades, getting a patent is not
something Joe-inventor or running-as-fast-as-I-can entrepreneur is likely to
be able to afford.
On the animation/structured audio front - those have tended to be the
purview of "university" and "artistic" types - not the "real business" types
like video and natural audio...
++Bill
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>
> it's interesting that structured audio and face/body animation, both of
> which I would expect to be very leading-edge technology, appear to be
> patent free, whereas audio and video coding, which are based on concepts
> more than half a century old, are so heavily encumbered.
>
> I guess no one thought they would get rich off structured audio.
>
>  ___  Dan Miller
> (++,) CTO and founder, On2 Technologies



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