Digital Intelligence's Picture IQ Ported to Wind River's VxWorks
ALAMEDA, Calif., and SEATTLE, June 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Wind River Systems (Nasdaq: WIND), the leader in embedded development software and services for the post-PC era, and Digital Intelligence Inc., a leading developer of embedded digital imaging software for consumer electronics devices, announced today that Digital Intelligence's Picture IQ(TM) software technology is being ported to Wind River's industry-leading VxWorks(R) real-time operating system (RTOS). Original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) building VxWorks-powered photo printers, set-top boxes, game consoles, and other, yet-to-be-designed photo-enabled devices, can now easily incorporate cutting-edge technology for manipulating digital images using Picture IQ.
Sharing memories between friends and families via pictures has been a craze since the beginning of time. The Internet brought the ability to share digital images between PCs and now the availability of powerful microprocessors at lower prices is driving the emergence of new consumer photo-enabled devices for capturing, editing, and sharing digital pictures.
Leading-edge OEMs can use Picture IQ to incorporate photo reviewing, enhancement, and sharing functionality into a variety of digital imaging products. For instance, using Picture IQ, families can gather around their televisions to review, edit, and organize their pictures, easily sharing them with their friends and loved ones via the Internet. Available immediately, the combination of Picture IQ with VxWorks will enable a broader range of OEMs to use Wind River's Tornado(TM) development tools to add these features to a wider variety of electronic imaging products including the newly-emerging hand-held digital photo albums.
"Consumer demand for photo-enabled devices is driving the establishment of cutting-edge technologies such as Digital Intelligence's Picture IQ. But complex consumer appliances need a robust operating system that will handle all the new features on time, every time, even across the Internet," said Curt Schacker, vice president of marketing for Wind River Systems. "For this reason, Wind River has become the preferred platform for Internet imaging devices, from capture to sharing to print."
"Digital Intelligence is committed to expanding the boundaries of current digital imaging technology and bringing new options to both OEMs and end users," said Bill McCoy, president and CEO of Digital Intelligence. "Picture IQ has garnered praise from the industry as a way to seamlessly work with digital images on consumer electronics devices. We were pleased to expand the types of uses for Picture IQ with Wind River technology. Because Picture IQ is integrated with VxWorks, OEMs looking to embed this modular functionality can easily leverage the Tornado tools."
Picture IQ -- The Leading Edge in Digital Imaging
Picture IQ is a portable and flexible embedded software technology uniquely developed to put powerful, reliable, and easy-to-use digital photography into a whole new class of consumer electronics devices. The technology's device-independent imaging architecture is portable across multiple operating systems and processors ensuring compatibility among digital imaging solutions. Picture IQ's component elements include a graphics engine and library, reference fonts and user interface, image editing, and composting engines as well as creative templates localized for different world markets. The architecture of Picture IQ also guarantees integration with a manufacturer's existing technologies, bringing products to market quickly and cost-effectively.
VxWorks and Tornado -- The Competitive Advantage in Digital Imaging
Available for UNIX, Windows 95, and Windows NT host platforms and more than twenty target processor families, Tornado is the only complete software cross-development environment for embedded systems. Tornado seamlessly integrates the industry's most powerful development tools with VxWorks, a feature-rich, high performance and scalable real-time operating system. Completely open and customizable, Tornado also facilitates the use of third-party and customer-developed tools to enhance its capabilities and meet unique customer requirements.
Digital Intelligence, Inc.
Digital Intelligence, Inc. develops and licenses embedded digital imaging software technology that advances the digital photo and video capabilities and ease-of-use of consumer electronics devices. Digital Intelligence's software is optimized for embedding in a variety of intelligent home appliances including set-top boxes, photo appliances, game consoles, printers, digital cameras and hand-held devices. For more information, visit www.dii.com.
Wind River Systems, Inc.
An ISO 9001 registered company, Wind River Systems, Inc., is the leading provider of integrated software development tools and services for real-time embedded applications in the Internet, telecommunications, data communications, digital imaging, networking, computer peripherals, medical, automotive, industrial, aerospace/defense and multimedia markets. Through the industry's most comprehensive and technically advanced product line, Wind River enables over 30,000 developers worldwide to develop and reuse application software across a variety of products and platforms, giving developers and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) competitive advantage through shortened development cycles and improved time-to-market. Incorporated in 1983, Wind River is headquartered in Alameda, California and has over 320 partners worldwide.
NOTE: Wind River Systems, the Wind River Systems logo and VxWorks are registered trademarks of Wind River Systems, Inc. Tornado is a trademark of Wind River Systems, Inc. Other names are registered trademarks or trademarks of the respective companies or organizations.
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