Microsoft Confirms Next-Gen Xbox Is Still Happening, It’s Called Project Helix, And It’ll Play Your PC Games

People have been speculating about Microsoft’s plans for the next Xbox for over a year now and the company’s new gaming CEO ...
Windows Report

Acer and ASUS Take Down German Support Sites Amid HEVC Dispute, Users Left in Limbo

If you live in Germany and are looking to buy laptops from the official Acer and ASUS websites, sadly, both companies have taken their respective websites offline. That comes after a German court ...
IEEE

Sievenet: An Efficient Model Utilizing H.265 Codec Structure for Video Object Detection

Abstract: In the field of video content analysis, object detection is a crucial task. The High Efficient Video Coding (H.265, HEVC) standard’s coding structures are strongly correlated with the video ...
The Indian Express

Acer, ASUS suspend PC sales in Germany after Nokia patent win

Two major computer brands, Acer and ASUS, have temporarily stopped selling desktop and laptop PCs in Germany following a court ruling in favour of Nokia. A German court has issued an injunction that ...
thetechoutlook

Acer and ASUS banned from selling PCs and laptops in Germany after a Nokia HEVC video codec patent ruling

Last year, Nokia filed patent claims against the Taiwanese companies, Acer and ASUS, at the Munich Regional Court and the UPC (Unified Patent Court) over video codec patents. According to Nokia, both ...
IEEE

Low complexity deblocking filter perceptual optimization for the HEVC codec

Abstract: The compression efficiency of the state-of-art H.264/AVC video coding standard must be improved to accommodate the compression needs of high definition videos. To this end, ITU and MPEG ...