PICTRON
WINS MILLION DOLLAR CONTRACT
The Largest Installation of Video Indexing
and Search Application
New York, N.Y. (STREAMING MEDIA
EAST 2000, Booth #2127) – June 15, 2000 - Pictron Inc., a leading provider of interactive media solutions to make video
searchable, today announced that Media Gateway Suite has been selected by a technology
leader in the media industry. This company will utilize Pictron’s video logging
stations and media search servers in both domestic and international applications. This
implementation of Pictron’s products has the potential to be one of the largest
installations of automatic video indexing and search application in use. Due to the competitive nature of this industry, our
client must remain undisclosed at this time.
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. Media Gateway Suite is the most
comprehensive solution to make video searchable and interactive on the Internet.
“Upon investigating the feasibility of
large scale searchable video solution on the market, Pictron’s Media Gateway Suite is
by far the best solution available to cater to our needs,” states the CEO of the
contracting company. “We are thrilled
to work in collaboration with our customer on a project of this scale. This not only validates our products on the
marketplace, but also changes the landscape of media convergence for the Internet,”
states Darwin Kuan, VP Business Development of Pictron.
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 any desired video location.
For more information, please
contact Darwin Kuan: (408)725-8888
email: darwin@pictron.com
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