Kit vendors Ericsson and Nokia have teamed up with Berlin’s Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute (HHI) to work on video coding standardization in preparation for 6G.
The intention is to develop “better immersive media” and mobile video user experiences for when 6G comes around. The three firms combined their video codec research chops with the aim of strengthening Europe's role in next generation standardization.
As a result of the team up they demonstrated a new video codec which they claim has higher compression efficiency than the current standards (H.264/AVC, H.265/HEVC, and H.266/VVC) without significantly increasing complexity.
The fruits of this “provides early evidence of technology capable of meeting the requirements for the next video coding standardization phase – an important milestone that helps initiate the process towards future decision-making,” claims the release.
