Toshiba to sharpen digital video images

SOFTWARE THAT will make it possible to capture fast-moving objects such as footballs on camera and send them as high quality images to mobile phones has been developed by Toshiba.

This software analyses moving images as they are converted to data and processes any portions with any rapidly moving objects separately from those that are relatively still. The results are crisp images that lend themselves especially to sports coverage.

Hence Toshiba hopes its new software, which is compatible with MPEG-4 compression, will appeal strongly to content providers such as 3G network operators.

With the recent announcement of handsets from NEC and Nokia which will enable their owners to watch digital TV on mobile handsets, Toshiba believes its technology will allow people to watch their favourite teams and still be able to make out exactly where the ball is! µ