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VESA® and MIPI® Alliance Announce the Adoption of VESA?s New Display Stream Compression Standard

NEWARK, CA (April 22, 2014) ?The Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA®), working in liaison with the MIPI® Alliance, announce the finalization and availability of the Display Stream Compression (DSC) Standard, version 1.0. 

VESA developed the DSC standard as an industry-wide compression standard for video interfaces, offering visually lossless performance and low latency. DSC has been adopted into VESA?s embedded DisplayPort (eDP?) v1.4 and into MIPI Display Serial Interface (DSI) Specification v1.2, which are used for embedded display interfaces within mobile systems, including smartphones, tablets and laptops. It is anticipated that the DSC standard will also be used for external display interfaces to computer monitors and televisions.

Increasing display resolution and higher refresh rates present challenges for small-display mobile devices and laptops, as well as large external displays. As display resolutions increase, the interface payload capacity must increase either with more power-consuming bandwidth, video data compression, or both. Displays going beyond 4K resolutions will push the video data rate beyond the current limits of the interface standards. For example, standard 1080p displays require a video data rate of 3.5 gigabits/sec; 4K displays at 60Hz require 14 gigabits/sec; and future 8K displays will require over 50 gigabits/sec. VESA?s DSC standard version 1.0 enables up to 66 percent data rate reduction, extending battery life in mobile systems and laptops, while simplifying the electrical interface requirements for future 4K and 8K displays.

?VESA recognized the need for display interface compression in mobile devices to extend battery life without compromising visual quality,? said Dale Stolitzka, VESA Display Stream Compression Task Group Chairman and member of Samsung Display America Laboratory. ?In addition, on-going development of DisplayPort standards, which includes 8K resolution support, foresaw the need for compression because of inherent limits in the existing display interface cables. VESA realized that compression was becoming a common need in the industry, and that a standard compression coding system could meet these common display interface needs.? 

?We are pleased to have contributed to the development of the DSC standard through our liaison agreement with VESA,? said Joel Huloux, Chairman of the Board, MIPI Alliance. ?We came to the same conclusion, regarding the need for a video interface compression standard, and realized that both organizations and the industry would benefit through this collaborative effort. DSC enables a single codec for system chips that have multiple interfaces.?

The VESA DSC Task Group, in collaboration with the MIPI Alliance Display Working Group, co-defined requirements for a high quality compression specification that meets the needs of today?s varied display usage, which includes a wide range of image types from still graphics and text overlaps, to photography and video. The new coding system also addresses usage on a wide variety of display types, sizes and viewing conditions.

Unlike more complex compression algorithms, such as MPEG, the DSC standard uses a less complex algorithm that provides a lower compression rate, and consumes fewer system resources including power. DSC provides low latency, which is important for interactive systems. Through extensive subjective testing of the standard, DSC is shown to deliver visibly lossless performance for graphics, text, images and video. The DSC encoding algorithm is based on delta pulse code modulation (DPCM), an Indexed Color History (ICH), an entropy encoder and a rate buffer that guarantees video data throughput for any possible display content. 

The DSC standard is available free to VESA members and for $350 for non-members. For additional technical information on DSC, please see the ?VESA Display Stream Compression? white paper at http://www.vesa.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/VESA_DSC-ETP200.pdf

VESA eDP v1.4 and MIPI DSI v1.2 are available to the members of the respective organizations.

For more information about DisplayPort, please visit http://www.displayport.org or connect with us on YouTube

For more information about MIPI, please visit www.mipi.org. For more information about MIPI DSI, please visit http://www.mipi.org/specifications/display-interface

About VESA

The Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA) is an international, non-profit standards association representing a global network of more than 200 hardware, software, computer, display and component manufacturers committed to developing and promoting the electronics industry. VESA has an established 24-year track record of creating and supporting simple, universal and cross-product solutions for today?s video and electronics industry. The association?s standards include DisplayPort?, the industry replacement for DVI, LVDS and VGA. DisplayPort utilizes a state-of-the-art digital protocol and provides an expandable foundation to enable astonishing digital display experiences. For more information about VESA, visit www.vesa.org.

About MIPI Alliance

MIPI Alliance (MIPI) develops interface specifications for mobile and mobile-influenced industries. Founded in 2003, the organization has more than 250 member companies worldwide, more than 15 active working groups, and has delivered more than 45 specifications within the mobile ecosystem in the last decade. Members of the organization include handset manufacturers, device OEMs, software providers, semiconductor companies, application processor developers, IP tool providers, test and test equipment companies, as well as camera, tablet and laptop manufacturers. For more information, please visitwww.mipi.org.

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