Haier Corporation and Freescale Semiconductor successfully demonstrated a wireless connection between a handheld camcorder and a plasma television display using Ultra-Wideband.
Haier Corporation and Freescale Semiconductor, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Motorola, Inc., successfully demonstrated a wireless connection between a handheld camcorder and a plasma television display using Ultra-Wideband (UWB) technology.
Ultra-Wideband is a technology being integrated into home theater and handheld products for wireless distribution of video and audio signals. The demonstration involves the first Direct Sequence Ultra-Wideband (DS-UWB) demonstration involving a handheld product and is being shown at the National Science and Technology Show, held May 15-22.
China’s Member of the State Council, Ms. Chen Zi Li, visited the wireless demonstration on May 15 and more senior government officers are expected to attend the demonstration over the next few days while visiting this invitation-only exhibition hosted by China’s Ministry of Science and Technology.
“Haier is committed to advancing home theater and video products,” said Ms. Li Li, Marketing Director of Haier. “By demonstrating Ultra-Wideband technology today, we are giving the world a look into the future of a truly wireless home theater. Handheld and mobile products, such as a camcorder, are an ideal target for UWB technology, and we are pleased to be the first company to demonstrate this important capability.”
The demonstration included a professional quality, digital camcorder that wirelessly streamed live video at a data rate of 20 Mbps across the room to a Haier 40 inch plasma display. UWB is capable of transmitting data as high as 114 Mbps, enabling up to three simultaneous streams of video over a single UWB connection, if desired. The DS-UWB demonstration showcased the technology’s ‘wire-like video quality’ -with no distortion or latency.
“It’s great to be working with a leading consumer products company like Haier,” said Martin Rofheart, director of Ultra-Wideband Operations for Freescale. “We successfully demonstrated UWB-enabled products with them at the recent China Cable Broadcaster Networking Exhibition in Beijing. This demonstration using a digital camcorder underscores how DS-UWB can be applied to a variety multimedia-centric products.”
Freescale’s Ultra-Wideband XtremeSpectrum chipset is a wireless semiconductor solution with a high data rate and low power consumption. The chipset is ideal for products such as set-top boxes, digital displays, camcorders, DVD players, digital video recorders and digital cameras to send and receive digital streams of audio and video.
Source: Motorola’s press release
