Crystalvue, Quality Video Experience for Mobile Phones

Ipera’s Crystalvue Mobile Video Player is a software app for your mobile phone which will dramatically improve the viewing quality of videos. You can use it:

• To view videos that you recorded with your mobile phone
• To view videos that were recorded by your family and friends and shared with you
• As a YouTube Mobile Video Player to search and view

Ipera’s Crystalvue Mobile Video Player is a mobile consumer app that can be downloaded to your smartphone or feature phone supporting Windows Mobile.

Based on many years of intensive research and video experience, Ipera’s patented technology, bridges the gap from poor quality video to the rich video experience that the mass market, mobile consumer expects. Its patented core technology which has been developed and used in high-end professional equipment such as web video servers, High Definition TVs, and PCs, is now optimized for your mobile phone.

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Ipera’s Crystalvue Mobile Video Player is now available as a mobile software application download from your mobile app store. Buy Now

Videos are Extremely Popular

Smartphones and feature phones are equipped with video capture and video players. You can capture videos and share with your family and friends by uploading them to YouTube, Facebook, and other websites. In 2007, there were 22 billion views logged for UGC, up 70 percent from 2006. And, this rate continues to grow aggressively.

Why Most Videos for Mobile Users are Poor Quality?

Users want clear, sharp images with vivid colors. Unfortunately, this is not the case for the majority of the time.

Video quality is compromised because:

• manufacturers want to minimize costs for the CCD senor, encoder, FLASH memory storage while also allowing for longer usage between battery charge
• wireless service providers want to minimize spectrum usage and allow more billable customers by increasing the video encoding rate
• LCD displays have inherent color fading and motion blur
• Mobile Users do not carry professional lighting equipment to adjust for darkness, strong direct light, and electrical lighting (incandescent light bulbs) that distorts natural colors

All these factors contribute to subpar videos and a poor quality viewing experience. Just look at the quality of the most popular websites and you can witness these effects.

Traditional solutions for HDTVs, Professional Camcorders, and PCs are not acceptable for mobile consumers. Hardware and software applications exist in high end video systems that can eliminate the above distortions to a degree. However, several drawbacks are observed:

• They are not cost-effective. HDTV’s have semiconductor chips containing many millions of gates or an array of DSP’s, making them too expensive and too inflexible for mobile applications.
• It takes too long, a few seconds, for most software applications to enhance one photo on the PC (i.e. Adobe Photoshop) without any guarantee of results. These products typically use static algorithms, making them scene, format, and application dependent, and in some situations, require manual intervention from an experienced user. A mobile device must be able to play both high quality broadcast videos and very low quality user generated content (UGC) in many different formats from MPEG-2 to H.264 and from 15 to 30 frames per second. It would not be acceptable for videos.

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Ipera’s Crystalvue Mobile Video Player is a media player that functions as a mobile search and video viewer.

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Mobile Phones Supported

Brand	Model	OS	Formats
HTC	AT&T Fuze	Windows Mobile 6.1, 6.5 Professional and Standard	System Container:FLV, MP4, 3GP, 3GP2 Video Codec: MPEG-4, SP, H.264 BP, H.263 Audio Codec: AAC, AMR-LC, MP3 YouTube
	Touch Pro
	Touch Diamond
	S740
	Rose
LG	Incite
	GM 730f
Palm	Treo Pro
Samsung	GT-18000 Omnia II M16
	Propel Pro
	SGH-1627

Crystalvue Solution

Crystalvue video technology is a breakthrough solution:

• Codec-related deficits such as blocky, ringing, and mosquito noise are eliminated
• Both spatial and temporal noise is suppressed
• Brightness is adjusted towards a suitable level
• Details and edges are enhanced so that the video looks sharper
• Contrast and dynamic range are improved; black level is emphasized
• Colors are balanced/corrected and naturalized with pleasing saturation
• Motion blur for LCD display is reduced
• Compatible with popular OS and encoding / decoders

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