Philips Research Press Release
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August 29, 2006
Philips introduces people-driven, market-ready innovations for enriched content experience |
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Berlin, Germany - At this year's
IFA, Philips will be demonstrating innovative market-ready concepts and
prototypes in the Future Zone. In this special area within the Philips booth
it will be demonstrated how people can derive even greater enjoyment from
their favorite music, photos, movies and other content in very flexible,
personalized and totally new ways across devices. The Future Zone
illustrates how Philips aims to speed up innovation, by turning research
results into first-of-a-kind pilot-products and concepts designed around the
user’s needs and preferences. This has already led to a number of new
products. The Philips concepts and prototypes in the Future Zone include
Lifestyle Home, amBX, 3D Solutions, Lumalive Fabrics, Video
Fingerprinting and the Personal Nutrition Coach.
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Concepts and Product prototypesLifestyle Home Lifestyle Home consists of three prototypes presenting a vision for the future of connected living that embraces a diversity of tastes, habits and needs. The concepts concentrate on three specific user groups and exemplifies how different electronic devices can be adapted to allow people to select, tailor and enjoy their digital media and connected experiences in the way they desire, and fitting with their own situation. The central feature of the Lifestyle Home menu is that it is designed for extensive customization. The standard menu categories can be arranged, removed and/or renamed to suit user preferences. Users can also add their own categories and fill them with content of their choice, such as online services they find interesting. The menu also allows easy management of peripheral lifestyle devices such as ‘AmbiLamp’, photo frames and ‘media tablets’. More infomation: |
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3D 4YOU
To provide people with enriched experiences, Philips is introducing amBX and a new 20-inch (51 cm) 3D 4YOU frame-mount display. AmBX enables multiple devices in a room to work in harmony to deliver new ways of enjoying entertainment: ambient lighting, sound, vibration, air motion and other effects. It takes what are pretty much ‘virtual’ activities – such as games, DVDs, music - and turns them into far more tangible, immersive experiences. The new 20-inch 3D display is designed for integration into commercial applications, which will bring the user an exciting personal 3D experience. Its out-of-screen performance in combination with touch screen capabilities makes this 20 inch Philips 3D 4YOU ideal for use in narrow casting or interactive applications such as point-of-sale, point-of-interest and casino gaming. More information: |
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With the Lumalive fabrics and Video Fingerprinting Philips will be demonstrating how it is also creating new business opportunities for the entertainment and leisure industries. |
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Lumalive light emitting textiles
Philips is aiming to impress visitors to the Future Zone with a world-first demonstration of promotional jackets and furniture featuring a commercialized version of its innovative Lumalive technology. Lumalive fabrics feature flexible arrays of colored light-emitting diodes (LEDs) fully integrated into the fabric - without compromising its softness or flexibility. Lumalive fabrics enable materials to be created that can carry dynamic messages, graphics or have multicolored surfaces.
More information: + Website Lumalive light emitting textiles
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Video Fingerprinting
Following the success of Philips Audio Fingerprinting, the company’s Content Identification group will demonstrate Video Fingerprinting. This technology enables content owners, and content service providers, such as operators and ISPs to automatically identify video segments and hence ownership of material by comparing unique 'fingerprints' extracted from the video segments with ‘fingerprints’ in a specially compiled database. Compared to manual monitoring methods, Video Fingerprinting allows better statistical sampling, faster response times and lower error probability. The system is capable of monitoring hundreds of video channels in parallel using a single server system.
More information: + Website Philips Content Identification |
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Personal Nutrition Coach
Most people today recognize that a healthy diet is essential to a healthy lifestyle. In line with its market research findings, Philips has developed an Internet-based Personal Nutrition Coach that helps people to monitor their food consumption. The Personal Nutrition Coach provides users with key insights into the health aspects of their food intake and motivates them to adopt healthy eating patterns.
More information: + Video + Website Philips Personal Nutrition Coach |
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Come to the Philips booth in Hall 22 to see all these new
people-driven innovations.
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For further information please contact: Saskia Maas
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About Royal Philips ElectronicsRoyal Philips Electronics of the Netherlands (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHI) is a
global leader in healthcare, lighting and consumer lifestyle, delivering
people-centric, innovative products, services and solutions through the brand
promise of “sense and simplicity”. Headquartered in the Netherlands, Philips
employs approximately 134,200 employees in more than 60 countries worldwide.
With sales of EUR 27 billion in 2007, the company is a market leader in medical
diagnostic imaging and patient monitoring systems, energy efficient lighting
solutions, as well as lifestyle solutions for personal wellbeing. News from Philips is located at
www.philips.com/newscenter. |
