PICTRON
INTRODUCES MEDIA GATEWAY SUITE AT NAB 2000
The Most Comprehensive Product and Service to Enable
Interactive and Searchable Video on the Internet
LAS VEGAS, Nevada (NAB 2000, S5721
in Microsoft Pavilion) - April 10, 2000 - Pictron Inc.,
the leading provider of interactive media solutions to make video searchable, today
announced the release of Media Gateway Suite, the absolute solution to unleash the power
of searchable media on the Internet.
To bring compelling and interactive video on the
Internet, Pictron has developed a comprehensive suite of products and services that enable
companies to offer rich media content on the Web. Pictron Media Gateway Suite consists of
Video Gateway, Image Gateway, Audio Gateway, and Media Search Engine. Media Gateway Suite
automatically detects video scene changes, extracts spoken words, recognizes human faces,
segments video into meaningful clips, and encodes video into popular streaming formats.
Internet users can use web browsers to search for relevant video clips and navigate easily
to any part of the video. Through Pictron's cost-effective InterMedia service, customers
can experience searchable and interactive rich media content without investing in
additional streaming media infrastructure.
Media Gateway Suite has a distributed open
architecture with unmatched performance and scalability. It is tightly integrated with
industry standard ODBC databases (Oracle, SQL), XML, video servers, web servers (Windows
and Unix), and web browsers.
In alliance with Microsoft, Pictron is taking
advantage of the superior quality of the Window Media Format and the scalability of
Windows Media to deliver the comprehensive Media Gateway Suite product and service.
"As streaming video becomes used by mainstream consumers and corporations, there is
tremendous interest for users to search and manage videos on the Internet," said
Kevin Unangst, group product manager, Microsoft Corp. "We are happy to work
with Pictron to provide an easy way for people to find high-quality digital video on the
Web.”
About Pictron
Pictron is the world's leading provider of
interactive media solutions to make video searchable on the Internet. Pictron's products
and services are designed to power the next generation broadband rich media applications.
Pictron uses its proprietary video analysis and artificial intelligence technology to
automatically segment videos into meaningful clips based on visual and audio cues. The
video is automatically indexed based on scene changes, text transcripts, human faces and
names, and objects in the scene. This process makes video searchable and interactive.
Internet users can now search videos based on text keywords, visual content, and database
annotation. Instead of viewing video from start to finish, users can quickly browse the
video content through the visual storyboard and instantly navigate to desirable video
location.
For more information, please contact Darwin
Kuan: (408)725-8888
email: darwin@pictron.com
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