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The MPAI Framework Licence approach to Standard Essential Patent (SEP) licensing

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In the business world, goods are delivered based on technical and commercial specifications. In the standards world, there are good reasons why the goods (the standards) of a Standards Developing Organisation (SDO) are not delivered according to commercial requirements normally accepted in the business world. However, this is not a good reason for an SDO to stay with commercial requirements called “patent declarations” that simply bind the originators to license their SEPs at so-called Fair, Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory (FRAND) terms.…

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Virtual Secretary for Videoconference

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As reported in a previous post, MPAI is busy finalising the “Use Cases and Functional Requirements” document of MPAI-MMC V2. One use case is Avatar-Based Videoconference (ABV), part of the Mixed-reality Collaborative Space (MCS) project supporting scenarios where geographically separated humans represented by avatars collaborate in virtual-reality spaces. ABV refers to a virtual videoconference room equipped with a table and an appropriate number of chairs to be occupied by: Speaking virtual twins representing human participants displayed as the upper part…

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MPAI publishes Working Draft of Use Cases and Functional Requirements of Multimodal Conversation (MPAI-MMC) Version 2

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 Geneva, Switzerland – 20 April 2022. Today the international, non-profit, unaffiliated Moving Picture, Audio and Data Coding by Artificial Intelligence (MPAI) standards developing organisation has concluded its 19th General Assembly. Among the outcomes is the publication of the working draft of the Use Cases and Functional Requirements of the planned Version 2 of the Multimodal Conversation (MPAI-MMC) standard. The MPAI process envisages that a standard be developed based on a Call for Technologies referring to two documents Functional Requirements and…

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Video coding in MPAI

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Video coding has been one of the first standardisation areas addressed by MPAI (the first was Content-based Enhanced Audio Coding or MPAI-CAE). One MPAI Video Coding area is focused on the use of AI tools to improve the classic block-based hybrid coding framework and offer more efficient video compression solutions. This was motivated by the rough estimate that MPAI did from its survey on published AI-based video coding results leading to a potential improvement of up to 30%. Figure 1…

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MPAI-MMC to be adopted as IEEE standard

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On the day MPAI Multimodal Conversation (MPAI-MMC) reached its full 6 months since its approval, the IEEE hosted the kick-off meeting of the P3300 working group tasked with the adoption of the MPAI technical specification as an IEEE standard. Earlier, MPAI and IEEE had signed an agreement whereby MPAI grants IEEE the right to publish MPAI-MMC as an IEEE standard. At its first meeting, the WG has approved the working draft of IEEE 3300 and requested IEEE to ballot the…

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MPAI issues a Call for Patent Pool Administrator on behalf of the MPAI-CAE and MPAI-MMC patent holders

Geneva, Switzerland – 23 March 2022. Today the international, non-profit, unaffiliated Moving Picture, Audio and Data Coding by Artificial Intelligence (MPAI) standards developing organisation has concluded its 18th General Assembly. Among the outcomes is the publication of Call for Patent Pool Administrators for two of its approved Technical Specifications. The MPAI process of standard development prescribes that Active Principal Members, i.e., those intending to participate in the development of a Technical Specification, adopt a Framework Licence before initiating the development.…

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