Fraunhofer IIS and HARMAN Automotive are collaborating to enable reliable voice communication over satellite networks for connected vehicles. By integrating Fraunhofer’s AI-based NESC voice codec into HARMAN’s Ready Connect SatCom TCU, the companies aim to help automakers deliver bi-directional NTN voice services, including emergency calling beyond cellular coverage. The solution is designed to maintain high voice quality even under severe satellite bandwidth constraints, reducing...
easyDCP software suite – Ten years of enabling easy access to Digital Cinema
For almost a century it was sufficient to use a film roll, a projector, and a white wall or sheet of linen to display movie content at any time everywhere in the world. That seemed to be over – when digital became the new magic code for cinema beginning in the year 2005. The intention of the team of Heiko Sparenberg and Siegfried Foessel at Fraunhofer IIS was to keep this easy access to movie content everywhere, anytime, and almost on any cinema projection system also in the digital...
