JPEG Patent Under The Microscope Again
News The US Patent and Trademark Office will re-examine the validity of the so-called JPEG patent held by Forgent Networks, an action that could deprive the company of its multimillion-dollar revenue stream.
[February 3, 2006, 8:50]
JPEG Patent Suit Targets 31 Major Firms
News Forgent Networks launched a patent infringement lawsuit against 31 major computer and electronics vendors on Thursday, seeking damages related to its claim to technology underlying the widespread JPEG file format.
[April 23, 2004, 17:15]
JPEG Committee Refutes Patent Claim
News The committee that develops the JPEG image compression standard have refuted a claim by a US company to own a patent that gives it exclusive rights to the algorithm underlying JPEG. The JPEG committee does not believe there is any foundation to...
[July 22, 2002, 10:47]
RIM Coughs Up For JPEG Patent
News BlackBerry wireless device maker Research In Motion signed a deal on Thursday to license part of the JPEG file format patent from Forgent Networks, the companies said. Usual royalty rates for Forgent's JPEG patent vary between a quarter of 1...
[October 28, 2005, 8:45]
Microsoft In Dock Over JPEG Patent
News Forgent Networks has filed a lawsuit against Microsoft, alleging the software giant infringed on its digital-image compression patent that serves as the technology behind JPEG. The patent in question, US patent no.relates to the technology behind...
[April 25, 2005, 10:35]
Microsoft In Dock Over JPEG Patent
Talkback Yet another reason to leave software patents in the US and keep Europe clean. Despite the pro-software patents lobby's claims to the contrary, and the media's parroting them, software patents are not status quo.
[April 25, 2005, 15:31]
ABO Aims To Out-compress JPEG
Talkback Moreover, for natural images, it does not outperform JPEG or MPEG. My recommendation is to go with JPEG-2000 for still images and H.264/MPEG-4 AVC for image sequences. Don't believe this hype - I've looked at their patent ("REPETITION CODED...
[December 4, 2003, 10:24]
European Software Patents Inch Closer
News Richard Clark, chief editor for the JPEG standardisation committee, which recently faced a patent claim which would have imposed royalty fees on almost every digital imaging device, said the proposal as it stands would worsen the patent situation...
[June 18, 2003, 14:04]
Microsoft's Plan For 'new JPEG' Leaves Users Cold
Talkback Until then, JPEG or PNG is fine. When Microsoft publishes their algorithm in a patent free or free license, I'll consider this. Microsoft has made the Windows Media Photo format public - however the compression algorithm is only obtainable through...
[June 1, 2006, 18:15]
Microsoft To Standardise HD Photo Technology
News Making HD Photos a neutral industry standard, not just a Microsoft technology, is a significant step in the company's ambitious plan to establish a higher-quality replacement for today's ubiquitous JPEG standard.
[March 7, 2007, 9:02]
Industry Group Hones Patent Standards
News For example, Austin-based Forgent Networks, a video conferencing technology, two weeks ago laid claim to the technology behind the JPEG image format. The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) said the new IPR working group will tackle how patent...
[August 5, 2002, 11:09]
GIF Patent To Expire, Will PNG Survive?
News Photographs are better saved as JPEG, or Joint Photographic Experts Group, files, and GIF offers animation capabilities that PNG was not designed to provide -- though a sister specification to PNG called MNG ("ming," or Multiple-Image Network...
[June 9, 2003, 12:24]
W3C Rejigs Image Format
News A Google search turned up roughly 3,050,000 JPEG images, 2,970,000 GIF images, and 994,000 PNG images. PNG was designed in response to a patent that had taken the Web by surprise. The patent, for the Lempel-Ziv-Welch, or LZW, a compression...
[November 12, 2003, 12:20]
Microsoft's Plan For 'new JPEG' Leaves Users Cold
Talkback No doubt they'll keep the format secret or else some enterprising legal troll will turn up and start yelling about patent infringement. It may work out like "VB Script" on web pages. At one point that was touted as "the way to go" but people stuck...
[June 1, 2006, 14:36]
