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MPEG-4 Part 2, the Glossary

MPEG-4 Part 2, MPEG-4 Visual (formally ISO/IEC 14496-2) is a video compression format developed by the Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG).^[1]

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MPEG-4
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Advanced Video Coding

Advanced Video Coding (AVC), also referred to as H.264 or MPEG-4 Part 10, is a video compression standard based on block-oriented, motion-compensated coding. MPEG-4 Part 2 and Advanced Video Coding are MPEG-4, open standards covered by patents and videotelephony.

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Bitstream

A bitstream (or bit stream), also known as binary sequence, is a sequence of bits.

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Bosch (company)

Robert Bosch GmbH, commonly known as Bosch (styled BOSCH), is a German multinational engineering and technology company headquartered in Gerlingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

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BT Group

BT Group plc (formerly British Telecom) is a British multinational telecommunications holding company headquartered in London, England.

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CableLabs

Cable Television Laboratories, Inc. (CableLabs) is a nonprofit corporation promoting innovation as a research and development lab founded in 1988 by American cable operators.

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Canon Inc.

Canon Inc. (Hepburn) is a Japanese multinational corporation headquartered in Ōta, Tokyo, specializing in optical, imaging, and industrial products, such as lenses, cameras, medical equipment, scanners, printers, and semiconductor manufacturing equipment.

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Chroma subsampling

Chroma subsampling is the practice of encoding images by implementing less resolution for chroma information than for luma information, taking advantage of the human visual system's lower acuity for color differences than for luminance.

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Codec

A codec is a device or computer program that encodes or decodes a data stream or signal.

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Color depth

Color depth or colour depth (see spelling differences), also known as bit depth, is either the number of bits used to indicate the color of a single pixel, or the number of bits used for each color component of a single pixel.

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CIF (Common Intermediate Format or Common Interchange Format), also known as FCIF (Full Common Intermediate Format), is a standardized format for the picture resolution, frame rate, color space, and color subsampling of digital video sequences used in video teleconferencing systems. MPEG-4 Part 2 and Common Intermediate Format are videotelephony.

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Data compression

In information theory, data compression, source coding, or bit-rate reduction is the process of encoding information using fewer bits than the original representation. MPEG-4 Part 2 and data compression are videotelephony.

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Deblocking filter

A deblocking filter is a video filter applied to decoded compressed video to improve visual quality and prediction performance by smoothing the sharp edges which can form between macroblocks when block coding techniques are used.

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Discrete cosine transform

A discrete cosine transform (DCT) expresses a finite sequence of data points in terms of a sum of cosine functions oscillating at different frequencies.

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DivX

DivX is a brand of video codec products developed by DivX, LLC.

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Dolby

Dolby Laboratories, Inc. (often shortened to Dolby Labs and known simply as Dolby) is a British-American technology corporation specializing in audio noise reduction, audio encoding/compression, spatial audio, and HDR imaging.

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FFmpeg

FFmpeg is a free and open-source software project consisting of a suite of libraries and programs for handling video, audio, and other multimedia files and streams.

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FourCC

A FourCC ("four-character code") is a sequence of four bytes (typically ASCII) used to uniquely identify data formats.

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Fujitsu

is a Japanese multinational information and communications technology equipment and services corporation, established in 1935 and headquartered in Kawasaki, Kanagawa.

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Global motion compensation

Global motion compensation (GMC) is a motion compensation technique used in video compression to reduce the bitrate required to encode video.

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Google

Google LLC is an American multinational corporation and technology company focusing on online advertising, search engine technology, cloud computing, computer software, quantum computing, e-commerce, consumer electronics, and artificial intelligence (AI).

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H.262/MPEG-2 Part 2

H.262 or MPEG-2 Part 2 (formally known as ITU-T Recommendation H.262 and ISO/IEC 13818-2, also known as MPEG-2 Video) is a video coding format standardised and jointly maintained by ITU-T Study Group 16 Video Coding Experts Group (VCEG) and ISO/IEC Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG), and developed with the involvement of many companies.

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H.263

H.263 is a video compression standard originally designed as a low-bit-rate compressed format for videotelephony. MPEG-4 Part 2 and H.263 are open standards covered by patents and videotelephony.

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HDX4

HDX4 is an MPEG-4 codec developed by a German company named Jomigo Visual Technology.

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High Efficiency Video Coding

High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC), also known as H.265 and MPEG-H Part 2, is a video compression standard designed as part of the MPEG-H project as a successor to the widely used Advanced Video Coding (AVC, H.264, or MPEG-4 Part 10). MPEG-4 Part 2 and High Efficiency Video Coding are open standards covered by patents and videotelephony.

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Hitachi

() is a Japanese multinational conglomerate founded in 1910 and headquartered in Chiyoda, Tokyo.

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Interlaced video

Interlaced video (also known as interlaced scan) is a technique for doubling the perceived frame rate of a video display without consuming extra bandwidth.

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International Electrotechnical Commission

The International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC; Commission électrotechnique internationale) is an international standards organization that prepares and publishes international standards for all electrical, electronic and related technologies – collectively known as "electrotechnology".

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International Organization for Standardization

The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is an independent, non-governmental, international standard development organization composed of representatives from the national standards organizations of member countries.

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Iran

Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI), also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Turkey to the northwest and Iraq to the west, Azerbaijan, Armenia, the Caspian Sea, and Turkmenistan to the north, Afghanistan to the east, Pakistan to the southeast, the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf to the south.

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ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29

ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29, entitled Coding of audio, picture, multimedia and hypermedia information, is a standardization subcommittee of the Joint Technical Committee ISO/IEC JTC 1 of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC).

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ITU-T

The International Telecommunication Union Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T) is one of the three Sectors (branches) of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU).

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Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia, located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland.

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Joint Photographic Experts Group

The Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) is the joint committee between ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29 and ITU-T Study Group 16 that created and maintains the JPEG, JPEG 2000, JPEG XR, JPEG XT, JPEG XS, JPEG XL, and related digital image standards.

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JVCKenwood

, stylized as JVCKENWOOD, is a Japanese multinational electronics company headquartered in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.

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KDDI

() is a Japanese telecommunications operator.

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LAME

LAME is a software encoder that converts digital audio into the MP3 audio coding format.

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LG Electronics

LG Electronics Inc. is a South Korean multinational major appliance and consumer electronics corporation headquartered in Yeouido-dong, Seoul, South Korea.

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Libavcodec

libavcodec is a free and open-source library of codecs for encoding and decoding video and audio data.

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Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Redmond, Washington.

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Mitsubishi Electric

is a Japanese multinational electronics and electrical equipment manufacturing company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

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Mobile phone

A mobile phone or cell phone is a portable telephone that can make and receive calls over a radio frequency link while the user is moving within a telephone service area, as opposed to a fixed-location phone (landline phone). MPEG-4 Part 2 and mobile phone are videotelephony.

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Motion compensation

Motion compensation in computing is an algorithmic technique used to predict a frame in a video given the previous and/or future frames by accounting for motion of the camera and/or objects in the video.

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Moving Picture Experts Group

The Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) is an alliance of working groups established jointly by ISO and IEC that sets standards for media coding, including compression coding of audio, video, graphics, and genomic data; and transmission and file formats for various applications.

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MP3

MP3 (formally MPEG-1 Audio Layer III or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III) is a coding format for digital audio developed largely by the Fraunhofer Society in Germany under the lead of Karlheinz Brandenburg, with support from other digital scientists in other countries.

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MPEG LA

MPEG LA was an American company based in Denver, Colorado that licensed patent pools covering essential patents required for use of the MPEG-2, MPEG-4, IEEE 1394, VC-1, ATSC, MVC, MPEG-2 Systems, AVC/H.264 and HEVC standards. MPEG-4 Part 2 and MPEG LA are open standards covered by patents.

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MPEG-2

MPEG-2 (a.k.a. H.222/H.262 as was defined by the ITU) is a standard for "the generic coding of moving pictures and associated audio information". MPEG-4 Part 2 and MPEG-2 are open standards covered by patents and videotelephony.

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MPEG-4

MPEG-4 is a group of international standards for the compression of digital audio and visual data, multimedia systems, and file storage formats. MPEG-4 Part 2 and MPEG-4 are videotelephony.

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Nero Digital

Nero Digital is a brand name applied to a suite of MPEG-4-compatible video and audio compression codecs developed by Nero AG of Germany and Ateme of France.

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Netherlands

The Netherlands, informally Holland, is a country located in Northwestern Europe with overseas territories in the Caribbean.

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Nippon Telegraph and Telephone

(NTT) (Corporate Number: 7010001065142) is a Japanese telecommunications holding company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

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Oki Electric Industry

, commonly referred to as OKI, OKI Electric or the OKI Group, is a Japanese information and communications technology company, headquartered in Toranomon, Minato-ku, Tokyo and operating in over 120 countries around the world.

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Orange S.A.

Orange S.A. (formerly France Télécom S.A., stylised as france telecom) is a French multinational telecommunications company.

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Panasonic

is a Japanese multinational electronics company, headquartered in Kadoma, Osaka, Japan.

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Pantech

Pantech Inc. (주식회사 팬택) is a South Korean company that manufactures mobile phones.

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Patent

A patent is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the legal right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention for a limited period of time in exchange for publishing an enabling disclosure of the invention.

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Patent pool

In patent law, a patent pool is a consortium of two or more companies agreeing to cross-license patents relating to a particular technology.

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Philips

Koninklijke Philips N.V., commonly shortened to Philips, is a Dutch multinational conglomerate corporation that was founded in Eindhoven in 1891. MPEG-4 Part 2 and Philips are videotelephony.

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Quantization (image processing)

Quantization, involved in image processing, is a lossy compression technique achieved by compressing a range of values to a single quantum (discrete) value.

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Quarter-pixel motion

Quarter-pixel motion (also known as Q-pel motion or Qpel motion) refers to using a quarter of the distance between pixels (or luma sample positions) as the motion vector precision for motion estimation and motion compensation in video compression schemes.

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QuickTime

QuickTime is a discontinued extensible multimedia architecture created by Apple, which supports playing, streaming, encoding, and transcoding a variety of digital media formats.

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Samsung Electronics

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (sometimes shortened to SEC and stylized as SΛMSUNG) is a South Korean multinational major appliance and consumer electronics corporation headquartered in Yeongtong-gu, Suwon, South Korea. It is currently the pinnacle of the Samsung chaebol, accounting for 70% of the group's revenue in 2012. MPEG-4 Part 2 and Samsung Electronics are videotelephony.

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Sanyo

is a Japanese electronics manufacturer founded in 1947 by Toshio Iue, the brother-in-law of Kōnosuke Matsushita, the founder of Matsushita Electric Industrial, now known as Panasonic.

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Sharp Corporation

is a Japanese electronics company.

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Siemens

Siemens AG is a German multinational technology conglomerate.

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Sony

, formerly known as and, commonly known as Sony, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan.

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Standard-definition television

Standard-definition television (SDTV; also standard definition or SD) is a television system that uses a resolution that is not considered to be either high or enhanced definition.

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Switzerland

Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe.

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Telenor

Telenor ASA is a Norwegian majority state-owned multinational telecommunications company headquartered at Fornebu in Bærum, close to Oslo.

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Term of patent

The term of a patent is the maximum time during which it can be maintained in force.

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Toshiba

is a Japanese multinational electronics company headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan.

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VC-1

SMPTE 421, informally known as VC-1, is a video coding format. MPEG-4 Part 2 and vC-1 are open standards covered by patents.

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Versatile Video Coding

Versatile Video Coding (VVC), also known as H.266, ISO/IEC 23090-3, and MPEG-I Part 3, is a video compression standard finalized on 6 July 2020, by the Joint Video Experts Team (JVET) of the VCEG working group of ITU-T Study Group 16 and the MPEG working group of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29. MPEG-4 Part 2 and Versatile Video Coding are open standards covered by patents.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG-4_Part_2

Also known as Advanced Simple Profile, ISO/IEC 14496-2, MPEG-4 ASP, MPEG-4 Layer 2, MPEG-4 Visual.

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