Fraunhofer IIS
Company Description
Fraunhofer IIS, based in Erlangen, Germany, is the home of the Audio and Multimedia division, which has been working in compressed audio technology for more than 20 years and remains a leading innovator of technologies for cutting-edge multimedia systems. Fraunhofer IIS is universally credited with the development of mp3 and co-development of AAC (Advanced Audio Coding) as well as technologies for the media world of tomorrow, including MPEG Surround, MPEG Spatial Audio Object Coding and the Fraunhofer Audio Communication Engine.
Through the course of more than two decades, Fraunhofer IIS has licensed its audio codec software and application-specific customizations to at least 1,000 companies. Fraunhofer estimates that it has enabled more than 1 billion commercial products worldwide using its mp3, AAC and other media technologies.
The Fraunhofer IIS organization is part of Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, based in Munich, Germany. Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft is Europe’s largest applied research organization and is partly funded by the German government. With nearly 15,000 employees worldwide, Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft is composed of 57 Institutes conducting research in a broad range of research areas. For more information, contact Matthias Rose, matthias.rose@iis.fraunhofer.de, or contact codecs@dmt.fraunhofer.org in the USA.
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Am Wolfsmantel 33
Erlangen, Bavaria 91058
Germany
Phone: +49 (0)9131 776 0
Fax: +49 (0)9131 776 399
http://www.iis.fraunhofer.de/amm
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