Ericsson has announced a collaboration with Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute (HHI) and Nokia to enhance immersive media and mobile video user experiences.
The partners are combining video codec research for the first time to shape coding standardisation for the 6G era, aiming to improve video coding standards in Europe.
The researchers have jointly demonstrated a new video codec with “considerably higher” compression efficiency than current standards H.264/AVC, H.265/HEVC, and H.266/VVC.
This new codec also shows improved energy efficiency and scalability with no significant increase in complexity, providing early evidence that it meets the requirements of the next phase in video coding standardisation.
Author's summary: Ericsson partners with Nokia and Fraunhofer HHI for 6G video coding standards.