VideoQ Company Profile VideoQ, Inc. is a California-based company, focused on video test & measurement and video enhancement technologies, products and services with more than 50 man-years of award-winning experience in the field of Broadcast, Consumer Electronics, Transcoding and Video Data Compression. VideoQ is a renown player in calibration and benchmarking of Displays, Video Projectors, Transcoders, Graphics and Video Processors, instantly revealing artifacts, problems and deficiencies, thus raising the bar in video quality experience. VideoQ products and services cover all aspects of Video Quality Assurance - from visual picture quality estimation to Fully Automated Quality Control utilizing VideoQ robotic video quality analyzers. Our approach allows to deal with complex problems affecting both Quality Of Service and Quality Of Experience, such as video decoder response to transmission chain packets loss or cascaded deinterlacers-scalers-codecs artifacts. VideoQ provides unique static and dynamic test patterns revealing critical image problems at glance. We test image displays of various types, analog and digital video links, capture cards and acquisition devices, RF tuners, GPUs, compression codecs, and video data transmission networks. For example, VideoQ developed technique to measure the complete teleconference system latency - from camera lens to display screen. Significant share of delivered HD images is currently produced by upconversion of legacy SD content. Thus, optimal handling of analog CVBS signals may affect the perceived HDTV quality. To address this issue VideoQ developed VQP - SpatioTemporal (3D) Video Enhancement Technology combining features of advanced 3D Comb filter, Noise Reducer and Compression Pre-processor. VQP technology was implemented both as a software algorithm and as FPGA-based evaluation board. Together with partners and customers VideoQ strongly supports the concept of Quality Wrapper, which should be seen as a modern digital equivalent of analog VITS (Vertical Insertion Test Signals) system. Being accepted as international standard the worldwide VITS system successfully provided for analog TV production, intercontinental content exchange and global broadcast quality assurance during several decades in the second half of 20th century. |