LG Electronics Licenses xHE-AAC and AAC-ELD Audio Codec Software from Fraunhofer IIS

Fraunhofer IIS announced that LG Electronics has licensed its xHE-AAC and AAC Enhanced Low Delay (AAC-ELD) audio codec implementations for use in its home entertainment products. As a global innovator in consumer electronics technology, LG Electronics recognizes the importance of these latest generation AAC codecs for adaptive audio and video streaming with improved quality, supporting variable network conditions.

Looking at differentiated spatial audio designs? Via Licensing Corporation announced the creation and availability of an MPEG-H 3D Audio patent pool with eight participating members. These initial participants include Dolby, ETRI, Fraunhofer, Orange, Royal Philips, Sony Group Corp., VoiceAge, and WILUS. The new pool enables manufacturers, developers and implementors to license MPEG-H 3D Audio standard essential patents under fair and reasonable terms.

To encourage adoption of the highest efficiency encoding audio technology, world-wide intellectual property solutions provider, Via Licensing, announced the upcoming availability of Extended High Efficiency AAC (xHE-AAC) as part of the Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) patent pool. The expanded patent pool license will be available at no additional cost to licensees, starting in Q4 of 2017. This will enable audio streaming services to adopt the most efficient encoding technology available, at lower costs.