Pictron
Announces RealVideo as a Video Publishing Platform in its Media
Gateway Suite
LAS
VEGAS, Nevada – April 23, 2001 –
Pictron Inc., a leading developer of interactive video indexing and
video search software products and services, today announced that it
is now using RealNetworks®, Inc.’s, RealVideo®
8 file format for encoding to provide direct video and audio analysis
of the RealMedia™ format.
Pictron
Media Gateway Suite uses intelligent video analysis technology to
automatically index, catalog, and publish video content resulting in
streaming media that is searchable on the Web.
Video scene changes are automatically detected and
representative key frames are extracted, summarizing the video content
into a storyboard format that communicates the storyline in a highly
effective way. Image features such as color, shape, and texture and
object features such as human faces, video title text, and
user-defined objects are extracted from video frames to index the
visual content. A useful
text transcript of the video is extracted from closed caption text or
through speaker-independent speech recognition to provide synchronized
full text indexing. With
the useful storyboard format, a nonlinear access point for viewing
video segments from any key frame is provided. Users can now quickly
skim through content and search for video segments by visual cues,
text content, and database information to effortlessly find key clips
of interest.
“Automatic
video indexing and search is becoming very important to our broadcast
partners, as they put more content on the web every day,” said Kevin
Foreman, General Manager, Systems and Tools, RealNetworks, Inc. “We
are excited that Pictron has chosen to use our superior streaming
platform to enable their product to stand out in its innovative speech
recognition, face recognition, and object recognition technology
offering. We encourage our customers and partners to take a look at
how Pictron Media Gateway Suite can enhance the value of their video
assets.”
“It’s
a win-win relationship for both RealNetworks and Pictron,” quotes
Darwin Kuan, VP Business Development, Pictron, Inc., “for with over
200 million unique registered users of RealNetworks’ RealPlayer,
it is of importance to us to provide, not only the tools for
extracting and analyzing video and audio information from RealNetworks’
file formats, but also to provide users who are searching for
meaningful video clips on the Internet a way to play these clips back
on their Web browser in the popular RealPlayer format.”
About
Pictron:
Pictron
(www.pictron.com)
is a leading provider of interactive media solutions making video
searchable and interactive on the Internet and intranets.
Pictron products and services are designed to power the next
generation broadband rich media applications. Using its advanced video
analysis and artificial intelligence technology, Pictron's Media
Gateway Suite automatically segments and indexes video into meaningful
clips based on visual scene changes, speech recognition, human face
recognition, and object recognition. This process allows for
exploration and interaction with video on the Web. Instead of viewing
video from start to finish, users can quickly browse the video content
through a visual storyboard format and instantly navigate to any
desired location.
The Media Gateway Suite also allows video search based on
keyword text, visual content, and database annotation. Pictron's
dynamic and cost-effective Media Gateway Service provides the best in
video encoding, indexing, search, and distribution services enabling
customers to experience engaging rich media content without any
investment in streaming media infrastructure.
Pictron,
Media Gateway, Video Gateway, Audio Gateway, Image Gateway, and
IntelliCapture are trademarks of Pictron, Inc.
RealNetworks,
RealVideo, RealMedia and RealPlayer are trademarks or registered
trademarks of RealNetworks, Inc.
For more information, please contact Darwin
Kuan: (408)725-8888
email: darwin@pictron.com
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