Multimedia Systems

Multimedia systems have gone far beyond traditional analog devices to digital multimedia systems. Embedded systems coupled with multimedia features are continuously increasing with the technology advancements. As technology is becoming inevitable aspect of our lives and content becomes ubiquitous, consumers are demanding seamless audio-video experiences at home and on-the-go. Feature-rich multimedia solutions are driving this trend, and device manufacturers across the smartphone, infotainment, broadcast, video surveillance, and video conferencing industries are adopting the same. Multimedia systems require real-time & efficient processing capabilities. However, challenges pertaining to quality, power efficiency, performance and latency are paramount and need to be addressed intelligently.

PathPartner, with its proven expertise in audio, video, speech and image processing coupled with re-usable IP components, delivers solutions to the most complex multimedia technology challenges in a cost-efficient manner. Having experience in all major standards as well as heterogeneous platform architectures, including ARM/x86 cores, DSPs, GPUs, accelerators, and FPGAs, PathPartner offers a spectrum of multimedia services across the content creation, transmission and consumption lifecycle.

Comprehensive Offerings to Accelerate Multimedia Systems Development

Archana Automation offers complete multimedia solutions right from capturing the data to process it, store it and stream it over various smart IoT devices. The process starts with content creation in the form of image, video, text, speech, etc. The next process requires high-end software to process and store the data. The final step involves stream or display the content over various multimedia systems in different formats.

Multimedia Components

  • Development, optimization and integration of audio/video/image codecs
  • Development and integration of file parsers, container formats, streaming protocols, security & standards

Multimedia Systems

  • Development of complete multimedia systems using custom frameworks
  • Development of android multimedia systems on various SoCs

Embedded Multimedia

  • Porting & optimization of multimedia frameworks
  • Audio/video pipeline management and features optimization such as frame stitching, frame rate control, data buffering, etc.

Connectivity

  • Integrating wireless connectivity, latency optimization, audio-video synchronization
  • Enabling cloud connectivity and remote control of digital devices

Image Processing & Video Analytics

Smart devices are able to make the business operations faster, smarter and better by supporting high-quality audio, video, text, graphics & images. PathPartner’s image processing and video analytics expertise has enabled the organizations & manufacturers to extract the relevant information from the content to drive measurable business results.

Archana Automation provides the tools which enhances the image visibility, auto-focus, auto exposure, image correction and 360-degree based security systems with the aim of providing complete safety.

Image Processing

Low Light Enhancement

Object Indentification

Image Classification

Motion Blur Removal

Image Correction

Video Analytics

Gesture Recognition

Face Detection

License Plate Recognition

People Counting

Motion Detection

Multimedia System : Technical Expertise

Archana Automation is involved in the complete development of multimedia systems with having experience in following codecs and stacks. Our hardware competency on heterogeneous embedded platforms has been pivotal in developing real-time multimedia systems.

Audio and Speech

Hardware Expertise

  • Audio Codecs: AAC, Dolby, DTS, MP3, WMA
  • Speech Codecs: AMR-NB/WB, QCELP, EVRC
  • Image Codecs: JPEG, JPEG2000, GIF, PNG
  • Architectures: Multi-core ARM, DSP, GPUs
  • MPUs and DSPs: Nvidia Tegra, NXP iMX, TI C66x etc
  • Interfaces: MIPI CSI/CPI, HDMI, PCIe, LVDS

Frameworks and Sub-systems

Media Streaming

  • File containers and protocol stacks: SIP, RTP, HLS,
    MPEG-DASH, DLNA, MirrorLink
  • Framework: Stagefright, AudioFlinger, GStreamer,
    DirectShow, MFT
  • Sub-systems: Android & Linux-based media systems
  • Streaming: RTP, SRTP, Adaptive Streaming technologies,
    MPEG2 TS
  • In-vehicle multimedia solutions: Apple CarPlay,
    Android Auto