Recent Stock Photo Industry Press Releases

FotoNation Demonstrates "SmileCheck" Technology

Real Time "Smile Shutter" Mode For Smiling Photos Every Time

Burlingame, CA, Jan. 14, 2008. FotoNation, a leading provider of embedded imaging solutions for the imaging industry, announced today the availability of licensing for "SmileCheck", a new technology to detect smiles in portrait photos taken by digital cameras and camera phones. The new technology is being debuted at the 2008 Photo Marketing Association (PMA) Convention.

SmileCheck is an extension module of FotoNation´s currently shipping FaceTracker product line. By monitoring the video preview stream in the cameras during framing, SmileCheck first looks for faces in the scene of the photo. Once faces are detected, the software looks for facial features associated with smiles.

JPEG XR: Microsoft's HD Photo Technology Is Considered for Standardization by JPEG

If standardized, the new JPEG XR file format will enable the next generation of digital photography to deliver better pictures, more features for all digital camera owners

Redmond, WA, July 31, 2007. Microsoft Corp. welcomed the decision, announced today by the Joint Photographic Expert Group (JPEG), to introduce a new work item for the standardization of Microsoft's(R) HD Photo file format.

If standardized, the new JPEG XR file format will enable the next generation of digital photography to deliver better pictures, more features for all digital camera owners

Redmond, WA, July 31, 2007. Microsoft Corp. welcomed the decision, announced today by the Joint Photographic Expert Group (JPEG), to introduce a new work item for the standardization of Microsoft's(R) HD Photo file format.

Corbis Chooses Rhozet for Video Transcoding to Enhance Leading Media Management Solution

Santa Clara, CA, May 29, 2007. Rhozet Corporation today announced that its video transcoding technology has been chosen by Corbis, which offers the leading hosted Media Management solution for managing digital media assets for major corporations such as, Bechtel, Malibu-Kahlua International, Microsoft, Starbucks and Universal Studios Hollywood.

Live Video from Mobile Phone to Broadcast Control Center Debuts at NAB 2007

Las Vegas, NV, April 24, 2007 (PRWeb). ComVu Media, Inc., the global enabler of mobile Webcasting, recently demonstrated the ground-breaking live video transmitting at 30 fps at 640 x 480 resolution, streaming from a mobile phone over a wireless data network to an Avid® nonlinear editing system. ComVu used its award-winning PocketCaster software to broadcast full screen video from a Nokia N95 multimedia device, transmitting over HSDPA data connection, which was then imported in real-time by Avid systems (via DV25 over IEEE-1394).

Microsoft Announces HD Photo, a New Imaging File Format With Advanced Features for Today's Digital Photographers

Plug-ins for Adobe Photoshop and HD Photo Device Porting Kit to help speed usage and adoption

Las Vegas, March 08, 2007. Today at the Photo Marketing Association (PMA) 07 International Convention and Trade Show in Las Vegas, Microsoft Corp. formally announced HD Photo, a new file format for end-to-end digital photography that offers higher image quality, greater preservation of data, and advanced features for today's digital-imaging applications.

EMPICS’ GameOn Mobile Service wins Global Mobile Award

London, Feb. 16, 2007. EMPICS’ GameOn FA Premier League mobile service has won the Best Made for Mobile Infotainment for Sports & News Content prize in the 2007 Global Mobile Awards. Up against stiff competition, the judges reported the GameOn service as, “a clear uncomplicated service that plays perfectly to the sports fan – it clusters together all the information you’d be interested in if you weren’t at the game itself”.

Edmunds’ Inside Line Launches New Automotive Photo Store, Powered by Pictopia

Popular Online Car Magazine´s Photos Now Available for Purchase

Santa Monica, CA, Feb. 02, 2007. Inside Line, Edmunds’ high-speed online car magazine, today announced that it has launched the Inside Line Photo Store at http://photostore.insideline.com. This new feature allows shoppers to purchase top-quality images of cars and trucks taken by the highly-regarded photographers of the most-read automotive enthusiast Web site. The Photo Store is powered by Pictopia, the premier photo commerce provider to the world´s top media companies.

Corbis Selects SchemaLogic for Enterprise Business Semantic Management

SchemaLogic to Provide Digital Media Leader with Consistent Tagging across Content Library

Kirkland, WA, Jan. 17, 2007. SchemaLogic today announced that Corbis, a world leader in digital media, will use SchemaLogic’s Enterprise Suite to manage the semantics used to describe the company’s growing digital images, illustration and video assets. SchemaLogic’s technology will integrate with Corbis’ own industry leading Media Management solution, and its selected auto categorization and search applications, helping Corbis’ customers to quickly find the exact image, video or illustrations to match their needs.

Paneikon: Reuters leading the way in new remote photo editing technology

London, Jan. 17, 2007. Given the huge demand for fast photo coverage of international sports and entertainment events as well as breaking news stories – the talented photo editors and software developers at Reuters in London have developed a new system that beats all others for speed, accuracy and quality pictures. A Reuters photographer anywhere in the world uploads all their low resolutions images with the push of a button to the Reuters global server in London.  An editor will then download those pictures, choosing the image he wants.  He can then crop the photo and send it to another editor to tone in Photoshop and add a caption ready for transmitting to customers.

Sorenson Media Launches Squish Web Application and SquishNet Website for User-Generated Video Content

Embedded Web Application and Customizable Back-End Website Server Enable Users to Efficiently Publish, Organize, View and Share Video

Salt Lake City, Jan. 10. 2007, BUSINESS WIRE. Sorenson Media, the worldwide leader for video encoding and compression applications, today announced the launch of Sorenson Squish and the companion Web application Sorenson SquishNet, designed to enable seamless and cost-effective publishing and sharing of user-created video.