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2011
NAB Technology Innovation Awards
 NAB
is currently accepting nominations
for the 2011 NAB Technology Innovation Awards. First presented
at the 2009 NAB Show, NAB presents the award to organizations
that bring advanced technology exhibits and demonstrations of
significant merit to the NAB Show. The nominated exhibit should
present advanced research and development projects in communications
technologies that have not yet been commercialized.
Candidates
for the Technology Innovation Awards must be organizations who
are currently exhibiting at the NAB Show. The size of the organization
is not a determining factor. Nominated projects may not be commercial
products that have been offered for sale prior to or at the NAB
Show. The merit of the technology exhibit is the sole factor to
be taken into account. The entry deadline is March 4, 2011. The
awards will be presented at the NAB Technology Luncheon on April
13, 2011 at the NAB Show in Las Vegas.
Here is a
summary of past award winners:
2010 Winners:
Electronics
and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) - ETRI is
Korea's largest government-funded research institute specializing
in information and communications technology. In the NAB Show
International Research Park area, ETRI demonstrated technologies
that enhance the ATSC DTV system, including increasing the total
data capacity of the system. Dr. Soon In Lee, managing director
of broadcasting systems research, is shown in the upper photo
at right accepting the award from NAB President and CEO Gordon
Smith.
Georgia
Institute of Technology - the Georgia Institute of Technology
(GT) is one of the United States' top research universities, distinguished
by its commitment to improving the human condition through advanced
science and technology. GT developed a hand gesture-based, wireless,
touch-free human-TV interface that uses a standard webcam. At
the 2010 NAB Show in Research Park, GT showed the gesture control
in the International Research Park area. Benny Bing, research
faculty member, is shown in the lower photo at right accepting
the award from NAB President and CEO Gordon Smith.
2009 Winners:
National
Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT)
- NICT is a national telecommunications research organization
in Japan. The NAB Show was the first venue outside of Japan where
NICT demonstrated some of the advanced imaging and sound technologies
being developed in their labs. Working with their partners in
the industry, the NICT demonstrations included holographic television,
3D displays without special glasses, 3D television programming
being transmitted via broadband from Japan and a multisensory
interaction system that explores human interface to communications
media.
NHK Science
and Technical Research Laboratories - NHK Science and Technical
Research Laboratories (STRL) is the research and development arm
of NHK, Japan's public broadcaster. Since its establishment in
1930, NHK Labs has been creating new broadcasting systems and
devices in pursuit of its mission to research and develop next-generation
broadcasting systems. NHK STRL demonstrations at the 2009 NAB
Show included an ultra-HDTV theater, with picture resolution 16
times that of HDTV and 22.2 channels of surround sound, and new
technologies that reproduce 3D in HDTV and mobile DTV services
based on Japan's digital broadcasting system, ISDB-T.
The NAB Show
(Las Vegas, April 9-14, 2011) will once again feature the International
Research Park, an area of the show floor that features exhibits
from research laboratories around the world and is intended to
showcase research and development in leading-edge media technologies.
Participation in the International Research Park is limited to
the display of technologies that are not currently commercially
available and represent new technology development in media-related
areas. NAB will provide suitable exhibit space free of charge.
The participating organizations will be responsible for all other
booth-related costs, including shipping, material handling, electricity,
etc.
If your organization is interested in participating in the 2011
International Research Park, please contact Skip Pizzi, Director,
Digital Strategies at spizzi@nab.org.
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