amBX home entertainment
A new way of experiencing home entertainment.
With amBX, multiple devices in your room work in harmony to deliver new entertainment experiences: surround lighting, vibration, air movement and other effects. It takes essentially a ‘virtual’ activity - games, movies, music - and turns it into a far more tangible, immersive experience.
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MPEG2 with natural motion
Some years ago, Philips introduced Natural Motion as the latest in a series of innovations that has made television viewing more pleasant. It does so by creating and displaying new pictures in between two subsequent original pictures, in which moving objects are shown at positions where the brain 'expects' them. Philips Research is working hard to make Natural Motion available in products other than TV.
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Audio/video feature descriptors
The Cassandra project focuses on the automatic generation of audio/video feature descriptors. These descriptors can then be used in a wide variety of applications, such as search and retrieval tools for large audio/video databases, automatic chaptering of movies, automatic insertion or removal of commercial blocks in video content etc.
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Content identification for watermarking and fingerprinting
The project handles the software development needs of Philips Content Identification www.philips.com/ci Content Identification offers world-class watermarking and fingerprinting solutions for content owners, broadcasters and other businesses that want to control their audiovisual content.
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Edit While Watching for home video editing
Edit While Watching (EWW) enables users to create and edit a summary of a home video in an easy and intuitive way, using only their remote control or a touch-screen. Within a period of 4 months a working demonstrator was designed and implemented.
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Entertaible tabletop gaming platform
The Entertaible concept is a tabletop gaming platform that marries traditional multi-player board and computer games in a uniquely simple and intuitive way. Entertaible comprises a 32-inch horizontal LCD, sophisticated touch screen-based multi-object position detection, and all supporting control electronics.
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HomeLab advanced usability laboratory
The HomeLab project was started around 2000. The goal was to build an advanced laboratory that could be used to conduct feasibility and usability studies in Ambient Intelligence. After two years of design and construction, HomeLab was opened on April 2002. The opening event marked the start of the Ambient Intelligence research in HomeLab.
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LightWand color scanning and pointing device
In the retail domain there is a strong need for easy ways to change the atmosphere in shops. Lighting is an important aspect of these atmospheres. Faced with choosing a color, for example, people find it difficult to describe the color in abstract terms. As a result, they typically search for a reference color in their immediate surrounding that matches what they want. Philips Research and Miplaza developed an innovative color scanning and pointing device called the LightWand.
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Wireless transmission: validation of new algorithms
This project supported Philips Research in validation of new algorithms for WLAN MIMO systems. A simulation environment and test-bed were developed and some of the validated algorithms are currently being proposed for inclusion in the IEEE 802.11n standard. This project was executed on site, this allowed close cooperation between the project team and the customer. It ran over 18 months with a total effort of 5 FTE.
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SPC900NC webcam
In July 2005 MiPlaza was contacted by Philips Consumer Electronics with the request for assistance in the driver development for the SPC900NC webcam, under extremely challenging time constraints.
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Twin Eye Laser Sensor
This project started in the Philips Technology Incubator. During this start-up phase a complete development environment was built including a validation box with FPGA board, ADC, DAC and analogue interfacing. The FPGA in the validation box runs clock-gated VHDL ported from an ASIC to the FPGA.
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Vision Training System for professional sports
Top Olympic-level swimming coaches are continuously striving to train their swimmers to achieve their best possible performance. Now, the Vision Training System (VTS), designed by MiPlaza together with the video software company Dartfish, has been developed to help in the pursuit of the ultimate swimming performance.
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Woodstove: clean efficient cooker for developing world
The Philips woodstove is a high tech cooking device for cooking in communities currently relying on less efficient means. It is designed for burning wood very efficiently and for reducing the smoke and toxic emissions to very low levels. When properly used the woodstove typically reduces fuel consumption up to 80% compared with traditional, three stone fires.
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