[M4IF Technotes] RE: [M4IF News] Press Release Licensing Additional Visual Profiles
Manish Singhal
manish.singhal ittiam.com
Thu Nov 15 09:57:01 EST 2001
Rob
Couple of questions:
- Suppose one buys any particular version of the standard, let us say
MPEG-4 Visual Version 2. Then it is upgraded to include FGS etc, then
one has to again pay ~250 CHF to get that extension ? Shouldn't there
be an upgrade only pricing ?
- Does the following announcement mean that the standard as well as the
conformance bitstreams are available to be purchased ?
Rgds
Manish Singhal
Manager, Video & Imaging
Ittiam Systems
Bangalore, India.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rob Koenen [mailto:rkoenen intertrust.com]
> Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2023 5:44 AM
> To: M4IF news (E-mail); M4IF Patent WGs (E-mail); Open DTV (E-mail);
> MPEG General (E-mail)
> Cc: Larry Horn (E-mail); Kenneth Rubenstein (E-mail)
> Subject: [M4IF News] Press Release Licensing Additional
> Visual Profiles
>
>
> People,
>
> The following release marks the start of a process that will
> enable joint licensing of essential patents in 3 more MPEG-4
> Visual Profiles:
> * Simple Scalable
> * Advanced Simple
> * Fine Granular Scalability (FGS)
>
> This is in addition to the following Profiles, for which licensing is
> slated to start in 2 months:
> * Simple
> * Core
>
> - Advanced Simple, a superset of Simple, has the latest coding
> effiency tools in MPEG-4, and supports rectangular video objects.
> - Simple Scalable and FGS are scalable extensions of Simple
> (Simple is the base layer).
> FGS can also be used with Advanced Simple as a base layer.
> - Core is a superset of Simple, adding B frames ('B-VOPs') and
> arbitrary-shape objects.
>
> This is an important milestone towards further deployment of MPEG-4
> technology.
>
> Kind Regards,
>
>
> Rob Koenen (President M4IF)
> (I apologize for duplicate mails through multiiple reflectors)
>
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> --------------
> -
> For Immediate Release
>
> CONTACT:
> Lawrence Horn, MPEG LA, LLC
> 301.986.6660
> 301.986.8575 Fax
> lhorn mpegla.com
>
>
>
> MPEG LA® Announces M4IF Plan for Joint Licensing of Essential
> MPEG-4 Patents
>
> (Denver, Colorado, US-14 November 2001) - The MPEG-4 Industry
> Forum (M4IF)
> has recommended that MPEG LA, LLC make the following
> worldwide announcement:
>
> In furtherance of its plan aimed at providing fair, reasonable,
> nondiscriminatory worldwide access under one license to
> patents that are
> essential for implementing the international MPEG-4 Visual
> Standard, the
> MPEG-4 Industry Forum (M4IF) has recommended that MPEG LA,
> LLC, in its role
> as Evaluation Administrator, call for the submission of patents for
> evaluation of their essentiality to additional MPEG-4 Visual Standard
> profiles, specifically Simple Scalable, Advanced Simple, and Fine
> Granularity Scalable.
>
> The Simple Scalable profile is generally described in ISO/IEC
> 14496-2:1999/AMD.1:2000(E) Tables 9-1 and 9-2 (pages 322 and
> 324). The
> Advanced Simple and Fine Granularity Scalable profiles are generally
> described in ISO/IEC 14496-2:2001/AMD.2(E) Tables AMD2-13 and
> AMD2-14. These
> latter tables can be found in the ISO document N3904, also
> styled "ISO/IEC
> 14496-1:2001/FDAM2" (pages 32-33).
> Following is a summary of the approved plan:
>
> 1. Objective
>
> To establish a portfolio of essential worldwide patents that
> are necessary
> for implementation of the MPEG-4 Visual (Simple Scalable,
> Advanced Simple,
> and Fine Grain Scalability) standard in order to provide all
> MPEG-4 Visual
> users with fair, reasonable, nondiscriminatory access to this
> technology
> under one license.
>
> 2. Licensed patents
>
> Essential patents will consist of those that are necessary
> for the Simple
> Scalable (ISO/IEC 14496-2:1999/AMD.1:2000(E) Tables 9-1 and
> 9-2 [pages 322
> and 324]), Advanced Simple and Fine Granularity Scalable (ISO/IEC
> 14496-2:2001/AMD.2(E) Tables AMD2-13 and AMD2-14, which can
> be found in the
> ISO document N3904, also styled "ISO/IEC 14496-1:2001/FDAM2"
> [pages 32-33])
> profiles of the MPEG-4 Visual Standard.
>
> 3. Organization
>
> The joint patent portfolio license may require at least three
> functions:
>
> First, an Administrative Committee consisting of
> representatives of the
> essential patent owners will meet to consider licensing terms
> and conditions
> and monitor certain activities of a Licensing Administrator.
>
> Second, the Licensing Administrator, who is granted non-exclusive
> sublicensing rights from patent owners under licensed
> patents, actively
> promotes the licensing program and distributes collected
> royalties to the
> patent owners. The Licensing Administrator will be chosen by
> the initial
> group of patent holders comprising the Administrative Committee.
>
> Third, an Evaluator who is a neutral, third party patent expert will
> evaluate patents for essentiality to the Simple Scalable (ISO/IEC
> 14496-2:1999/AMD.1:2000(E) Tables 9-1 and 9-2 [pages 322 and
> 324]), Advanced
> Simple and Fine Granularity Scalable (ISO/IEC
> 14496-2:2001/AMD.2(E) Tables
> AMD2-13 and AMD2-14, which can be found in the ISO document
> N3904, also
> styled "ISO/IEC 14496-1:2001/FDAM2" [pages 32-33]) profiles
> of the MPEG-4
> Visual Standard. Any party that believes it has essential patents is
> invited to submit them for evaluation and inclusion. For each patent
> submitted, an evaluation fee of US $8,500.00 will be paid to
> MPEG LA, LLC
> (as below) to cover costs of the patent expert's evaluation.
>
> Members of the Administrative Committee will be determined by
> the results of
> the patent essentiality evaluation.
>
> 4. Licensing details
>
> To be determined by the Administrative Committee consisting of
> representatives of the essential patent owners.
> 5. Extension of the scope of the licensed patents
>
> On M4IF's recommendation and request, MPEG LA® earlier called for the
> submission of patents for an evaluation of their essentiality to the
> normative part of the Simple and Core profiles of the MPEG-4
> Visual Standard
> by an independent patent expert, and is currently
> facilitating the efforts
> of essential patent owners to develop a joint license providing fair,
> reasonable, nondiscriminatory access to their essential intellectual
> property.
>
> 6. Schedule (Initial Plan)
>
> Initial patent submissions: by March 1, 2024 (although
> patent submissions
> may continue to be submitted after that date, owners of
> essential patents in
> the initial group of patents submitted by the March 1 date
> will form the
> initial group of Licensors and Administrative Committee that
> will select a
> Licensing Administrator and determine the terms of license).
>
> Evaluation: March - June 2002
>
> Upon the above consensus, M4IF recommended that MPEG LA® make
> this worldwide
> announcement.
>
> Accordingly, MPEG LA® hereby announces that any company which
> believes it
> has patents that are essential to the Simple Scalable,
> Advanced Simple and
> Fine Granularity Scalable profiles of the MPEG-4 Visual Standard (as
> described above) and wishes to join the patent pool upon successful
> evaluation is invited to submit such patents to the Evaluator
> (identified
> below) by March 1, 2002, together with a statement confirming
> its agreement
> with the objectives and intention to abide by terms and
> procedures governing
> the patent submission process. Terms and procedures governing patent
> submissions may be obtained from Lawrence A. Horn, Vice
> President, Licensing
> and Business Development, MPEG LA, LLC (lhorn mpegla.com, phone
> 1-301-986-6660, fax 1-301-986-8575).
>
> Evaluator:
>
> Dr. Kenneth Rubenstein
> PROSKAUER ROSE LLP
> 1585 Broadway
> New York, NY10036-8299
> Tel. 212-969-3000
> Fax. 212-969-2900
> krubenstein proskauer.com <mailto:krubenstein proskauer.com>
>
> # # #
>
>
>
>
>
> Overview of the MPEG-4 Standard
>
> MPEG-4 is an ISO/IEC multi-media representation standard
> developed by its
> Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG). MPEG also developed
> MPEG-1, which
> makes possible interactive video on CD-ROM and is present on
> virtually every
> personal computer, and MPEG-2, the core compression
> technology underlying
> the efficient transmission, storage and display of digitized
> moving images
> and sound tracks on which high definition television (HDTV),
> Digital Video
> Broadcasting (DVB), direct broadcast by satellite (DBS), digital cable
> television systems, multichannel-multipoint distribution
> services (MMDS),
> personal computer video, digital versatile discs (DVD),
> interactive media
> and other forms of digital video delivery, storage, transport
> and display
> are based.
>
> MPEG-4 is the result of yet another international effort
> involving hundreds
> of researchers and engineers from all over the world. Building on the
> successes of MPEG's earlier standards, MPEG-4 enables
> integration of the
> production, distribution and content access features of
> digital television,
> interactive graphics applications and interactive multimedia
> across internet
> protocol, wireless, low bitrate, broadcast, satellite, cable
> and mobile
> environments. With MPEG-4, all content elements can be maintained as
> discrete objects enabling richer interactivity and use across
> many different
> devices More information about MPEG-4 can be found at
> MPEG's home page
> <http://mpeg.telecomitalialab.com> and at the home page of the MPEG-4
> Industry Forum <http://www.m4if.org/>.
>
> MPEG-4 Industry Forum (M4IF)
>
> While M4IF recommended that MPEG LA® take the steps as
> described in this
> release, all steps described herein are carried out outside and
> independently of M4IF. M4IF encourages all and any steps
> that will lead to
> easy access to reasonable and non-discriminatory licenses for patents
> essential to the MPEG-4 Standard.
>
> The M4IF was organized on May 29, 2024 as a not-for-profit
> corporation "To
> further the adoption and widespread use of the MPEG-4 Standard, by
> establishing MPEG-4 as an accepted standard among application
> developers,
> service providers, content creators and end users." Based in
> Switzerland,
> M4IF is open to all parties that support this goal and pay the yearly
> membership fee of (US) $3,000. M4IF carries on activities outside of
> ISO/IEC's scope, such as:
>
> * Promoting the MPEG-4 Standard, and serving as a single point of
> information on MPEG-4 technology, products and services;
> * Initiating discussions leading to the potential establishment of
> patent portfolios outside of M4IF in order to grant licenses to all
> applicants throughout the world under reasonable terms and
> conditions that
> are demonstrably free of any unfair competition;
> * Organization of MPEG-4 exhibitions and tutorials;
> * Carrying out interoperability tests.
>
> Since its official establishment, over 100 companies have
> joined the Forum.
>
>
> MPEG LA, LLC
>
> MPEG LA* successfully pioneered one-stop technology standards
> licensing,
> starting with a portfolio of essential patents for the
> international digital
> video compression standard known as MPEG-2, which it began
> licensing in
> 1997. One-stop technology standards licensing enables widespread
> technological implementation, interoperability and use of fundamental
> broad-based technologies covered by many patents owned by
> many different
> patent holders. MPEG LA* provides users with fair, reasonable,
> nondiscriminatory access to these essential patents on a
> worldwide basis
> under a single license. The MPEG-2 Patent Portfolio License now has
> approximately 350 licensees and includes almost 400 MPEG-2
> essential patents
> owned by 19 patent holders. As the legal and business
> template for one-stop
> technology standards licensing, MPEG LA* also provides an
> innovative way to
> achieve fair, reasonable, nondiscriminatory access to patent
> rights for
> other technology standards - the high-speed transfer digital
> interconnect
> standard known as IEEE 1394 and the terrestrial digital
> television standard
> used in Europe and Asia known as DVB-T. In addition, MPEG
> LA® has been
> asked to facilitate the development of joint licenses for
> MPEG-4 and other
> emerging technologies. The company is based in Denver, CO
> and has offices
> in Chevy Chase, MD (Washington DC metropolitan area), the greater San
> Francisco area and London, England. For more information,
> please refer to
> <http://www.mpegla.com/>, <http://www.1394la.com/> and
> <http://www.dvbla.com>.
>
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