3D Films On Cell Phone

Researchers at Fraunhofer have combined the new mobile radio standard LTE-Advanced with a video coding technique. This puts 3D films on your cell phone. Halting page loading and postage stamp sized-videos jiggling all over the screen – those days are gone for good thanks to Smartphones, flat rates and fast data links. Last year, 100 million videos were seen on YouTube with cell phones all over the world. A survey of the high-tech association BITKOM found that 10 million people surf the Internet with their cell phones in Germany. And there’s another hype that is unbroken: 3D films. Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, Heinrich-Hertz-Institut, HHI in Berlin, Germany, have been able to put both of them together so you can experience mobile Internet in 3D.

The researchers have come up with a special compression technique for films in especially good high-resolution HD quality. It computes the films down to low data rates while maintaining quality: H.264/AVC. What the H.246/AVC video format is to high-definition films, the Multiview Video Coding (MVC) is to 3-D films. Scientists at the HHI, explained that MVC is used to pack together the two images needed for the stereoscopic 3D effect to measurably reduce the film’s bit rate and this technique can be used to reduce the size of 3D films as much as 40 percent. That means that you can quickly receive excellent quality 3D films in connection with the new 3G-LTE mobile radio standard. Key is the radio resource management integrated into the LTE system that allows flexible data transmission while including various quality of service classes.

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http://www.fraunhofer.de/en/press/research-news/2010-2011/14/3d-films-on-cell-phone.jsp