We will use the opportunities offered by digitization to provide customers with the functions they want. In our analog world, electronic products are increasingly digital. With good reason too.
Digital technology offers higher quality and less degradation.
It allows manipulation and error correction of audio and video signals and enables mixing of more and different data streams. Further, it increases bandwidth and enables true interactivity. The huge increase in the amount of data generated by the nigration from analog to digital, is counteracted by audio and video compression techniques. Voice recognition and speech processing require vast amounts of memory, but as memory sizes increase, so too does the time to capture the information. At Philips Research we solve such problems by shedding redundant information and by economic coding of information according to application, transmission channel and storage medium.