Faroudja Labs was a San Francisco based IP and research company founded by Yves Faroudja.
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10 Facts About Faroudja
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Faroudja Inc was founded by Yves and Isabel Faroudja in 1971, specializing in video quality improvement, particularly for VCRs, and soon became an acknowledged leader in this field.
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In 1989 Faroudja invented and patented film mode detection, known as inverse 3:2 pulldown detection.
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Faroudja was the only company in the world that had the ability to detect the original frames of the film within the video stream and reconstruct an accurate image, free of motion artifacts containing full vertical resolution.
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In 2000 Faroudja introduced the industry's first line doubler for HDTV.
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In 2000, Faroudja was acquired by Sage, Inc which in turn was acquired by Genesis Microchip in 2002.
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In 2007, Genesis Microchip, and its Faroudja technology, was acquired by STMicroelectronics, a global semiconductor company with revenues over $9.
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Faroudja Video Optimized is a calibration and logo branding program available to TV and Set-Top Box manufacturers who use STMicroelectronics system-on-chip solutions with integrated Faroudja video processing algorithms.
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The calibrated settings are stored in a video mode called “Faroudja Movie”, optimized for high-end TVs and Blu-ray HD sources.
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DCDi by Faroudja technology is an advanced deinterlacing algorithm for upconverting and deinterlacing standard definition NTSC content for display on high-definition flat panel TVs DCDi by Faroudja corrects several deinterlacing issues, including visible jagged edges in an image, cross-color artifacts and includes Film mode processing.
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