Socionext Inc. today announced a lineup of acoustics solutions now available under the “ForteArt” family of software IPs. ForteArt enhances sound-related user experience, with applications including consumer products, public signage and automotive infotainment systems. Solutions inlcude “3D Surround Sound Solution”,“Bass Boost Solution” and the “3D Audio HMI”.

Socionext has developed a prototype implementation of video encoder functionalities of the latest video compression format AV1 onto Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) F1 Instance.

Socionext collaborates with Dwango to offer “niconico” multi-user live streaming service. The new system links video data processing servers with Socionext’s Hybrid Codec Module M820L to improves the performance of real-time video data transcoding. Dwango plans to deploy the system within this year.

Socionext introduces the new M820L, a new hybrid codec module, capable of decoding and encoding multi-channel, high-resolution, high-quality image and video data, and extracting information from a video and integrating it into the output data, thereby improving the value of video data for a wide range of applications.

Socionext Inc. has developed a new Neural Network Accelerator (NNA) engine – a small-sized and low power engine for deep learning inference processing and supports a broad range of Applications optimized for AI processing on edge computing devices.