February 28, 2015
Shikino High-Tech Co., Ltd.

Shikino Launches Still Image Decoder IP Obtaining“World-class speed” 16X faster image processing
Achieve Speeding up, High image quality and Low power consumption
by Shikino’s original decoding technology.

UOZU（February 28, 2015）―Shikino High-Tech Co., Ltd. (“Shikino”) today announced that it
has launched a new still image decoder IP, “KJN-8EX_DEC”, and commenced sales on
February 27.

As a new product from the “KJN series” with the world’s top share in the still

image compression/decompression technology, Shikino developed this still image decoder IP
which has the world’s first image processing performance, 16X speed (16 data/clock), in theJPEG decompression with high bit depths (8-bit/10-bit/12-bit).

The product is most suitable

for the mobile/broadcasting/ medical/aerospace fields and so forth.
●Speeding up : Achieve ultra-high speed JPEG compression/decompression
KJN-8EX_DEC makes it possible to achieve 16X speed (16 data/clock), the world’s highest
speed, as the image processing performance of the JPEG decompression (data rate).

This

product and combination with KJN-8EX_ENC(April 1,2014 released) is most suitable for
digital cameras and smart phones requiring high-speed continuous shooting and display
performance, and broadcasting equipments for the Ultra High Definition Television
Broadcasting for next-generation 8K4K images.
●High image quality : Achieve ultra-high definition images with high bit depths
In addition to the general 8-bit depth in JPEG, the high bit depth feature (10-bit/12-bit)
added in KJN-8EX_DEC attains high image quality.

This KJN-8EX_DEC technology is

optimally applied to highly advanced medical equipments, aviation/aerospace equipments,
broadcasting equipments for the Ultra High Definition Television broadcasting that require
color reproducibility and high gradation.
●Low power consumption : Achieve communized architecture design
Shikino’s original implementing technology minimizes gate amounts following high-speed
image processing and reduces 45% of the power consumption, compared to our existing
company’s products.

This is optimal for portable devices (e.g., tablet PCs) and battery

drive devices (e.g., digital cameras).

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This brand-new product, KJN-8EX_DEC, is anticipated to meet the market demands for
digital cameras, smart phones, tablet PCs, broadcasting equipments, medical equipments,
aerospace equipments and so on.

Also, Shikino’s “KJN series” provides customers with theIP products featuring 1X to 16X JPEG image processing.

We Shikino will continuously

develop and expand our lineups to satisfy the requests from more customers.
*16X speed: Decompress 8K4K images with 60 frames per second in real time (240 MHz clock)*Gradation: A unit expressing color and brightness
Number of colors: Cubed gradation numbers in the RGB color model
8 bits: 256 gradations per color/16.77 million colors (8 bits applied to PC)
10 bits: 1024 gradations per color/1.07 billion colors
12 bits: 4096 gradations per color/68.71 billion colors【About JPEG Extended DCT-based process】
The 12-bit JPEG (Extended DCT-based process) employed in “KJN-8EX_DEC” is aninternational standard to extend general 8-bit JPEG to 12 bits in the ITU-T Recommendation
T.81 and ISO/IEC International Standard 10918-1.

Features of “KJN-8EX_DEC”, a high-bit depth still image compression IP

Support 8-bit/10-bit/12-bit depth for the JPEG compression.

Enable a high-speed processing in 3840M Sample/sec (240 MHz).

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Obtain high-speed, small-scale and power-thrifty processing by Shikino’s original algorithms.

Specifications
CPU bus: 32 bits

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Image data bus: 128 bits (8-bit depth) and 192 bits (10bit/12-bit depth)Code data bus: 128 bits (8-bit depth) and 256 bits (10-bit/12-bit depth)Quantization table: 4 tables(RAM)Huffman table: 2 tables for DC and AC respectively (Fixed)

Color format: YUV444, YUV422, YUV420, YUV411, Gray-Scale and CMYK2Inquiries:
IP sales representatives
Tokyo Design Center
Tel: +81-3-5777-3340
Fax: +81-3-5777-3341
Osaka Design Center
Tel: +81-6-6150-7730
Fax: +81-6-6150-7739
Media:PR publicists
Office of the President
Tel: +81-765-22-4171
Fax: +81-765-23-3914
http://www.shikino.co.jp/eng/index.html

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