Blue Monitor Internet Connected Consumer Electronics Group (ICCEG) has been in operation since Jan 2007 and since then, has been working with leading semiconductor, consumer product and service provider companies, providing them with wide ranging solutions and services at various touch points along the digital multimedia chain.
Through the last two years years ICCEG has been working on providing high end solutions for products like set-top boxes, digital TVs, High Definition TVs (HDTV), portable media players, digital cameras, DVD players and etc. With substantial investments in the research and development of re-usable components and intellectual properties in the areas of digital TV middleware and next generation DVDs, the CE Group is well positioned to address end-to-end product design needs.
SET-TOP BOX & DIGITAL TV
The worldwide phenomenon of rapidly growing digital TV market and the move towards analog broadcast switch-off is offering great opportunity for Digital TV and Set-Top-Box manufacturers across the globe. However the global market is segmented with different standards being adopted in different regions of the world. Along with the opportunity these markets are throwing many challenges to manufacturers because of highly competitive markets with very tight time to market requirements for feature rich products providing high quality consumer experience. The current dynamics in this market will bring in major changes in the user experience watching Television.
Blue Monitor offers off-the-shelf standards based DTV stacks, which provide the manufacturer the necessary time-to-market advantages by speeding up the product development cycle and also enable the manufacturer to concentrate on product differentiation. The stacks are modular and come with the necessary abstraction layers for easy porting across operating systems and hardware platforms. Also the stacks are provided with well documented Porting / Integration guide and API documentation. The stacks offered are:
DVB stack ATSC
Open Cable stacks
ISDB-T Stack
PORTABLE MEDIA PLAYER
With increasing commoditization of portable media players, it becomes exceedingly important for ODM / OEM to differentiate their offerings by providing a feature-rich product at affordable prices, while being able to generate new products in very short timeframes. Blue Monitor’s wide experience in this area ranging from memory, power optimization to custom application, advanced user interface, in-depth expertise in audio / video codec’s (Open Source codec’s) and ready framework design, ensures delivery of a high quality product in short time frame.
As the world adapts to DRM implementation across the value chain, right from the content provider to the end PMP device, Blue Monitor continues to leverage its relationship with leaders across this chain to provide DRM based PMP solutions. One such program has been the Plays For Sure – certification provide by Microsoft.
NEXT-GENERATION DVD
The next generation of disks, with greater storage and faster speeds has ushered in a revolution of sorts in the market place. With the smoke settling down, two major standards seem to be leading the pack - and already the first generation players of these disks are being released in the market place, and competition seems to be heating up between these two standards.
Blue Monitor has already partnered with some of the leaders in the market to innovate, design and productize some of the designs of these disk players, working with them on their entire software needs right from providing codec’s, development of middleware, and the development of the application layer with emphasis on user friendliness and functionality.
Anticipating a spurt in expertise requirement by its clients in this area, Blue Monitor has invested significantly in a R&D center focused on developing reusable components and has provided proof of concepts to enable its clients to slash development times and ensure that their product reaches the market ahead of competition.
DIGITAL CAMERA SOLUTIONS
Digital photography has finally come of age and the last couple of quarters has seen consumers pick up more digital cameras compared to analog ones. The last few years have seen digital camera manufacturers competing furiously to improve features like picture sharpness, resolution, auto-focus, white balance, etc., so much so, that today even low cost models are capable of reproducing images of several mega-pixels.
Blue Monitor has been in the forefront of digital camera solutions design for the last couple of years. Blue Monitor's indigenously developed reuse components help camera manufacturers design high-end digital cameras and reach the market earlier than their competitors. These initiatives help drive down cost and reduce time to market.
Blue Monitor's IPs in the area of digital camera include video motion detector module, white balance, auto focus, etc.
