Vivo Joins HEVC Advance Video Coding Patent Pool, Gaining Access to 16,000 Global Patents
Independent licensing administrator Access Advance announced last Thursday that Chinese smartphone brand Vivo has joined the HEVC Advance Patent Pool. Vivo now gains access to over 16,000 (and counting) worldwide patents essential to implementing the HEVC/H.265 video codec standard.
Peter Moller, CEO of Access Advance, said: “We are very pleased that Vivo has chosen to join our HEVC Advance program. Vivo’s joining is another important endorsement by a major smartphone manufacturer and brand, further demonstrating the value of our HEVC pool license. With the addition of Vivo, our HEVC Advance program has now licensed a substantial majority of the smartphone market, including many of the largest smartphone manufacturers such as Samsung, Huawei, OPPO, and most recently Vivo and ZTE.”
Access Advance LLC (formerly HEVC Advance LLC) is an independent licensing administrator company formed to lead the development, administration and management of patent pools for licensing essential patents of the most important standards-based video codec technologies.
Access Advance provides a transparent and efficient licensing mechanism for both patent owners and patent implementers. It currently manages and administers the HEVC Advance Patent Pool for licensing patents essential to H.265/HEVC technology, and the separate and independent VVC Advance Patent Pool for licensing essential patents to VVC/H.266 technology.
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