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what happened in the 4th qtr to cause institutions to sell 8.5myn shares?....i have a good idea...anybody want to venture a guess?
im not sure i trust this data....if this is the case...id say these boys missed out on a big move in the stock....wonder where all these shares went??
Findings from InterDigital Inc. Yields New Findings on Telecommunications (Facetunegan: Face Autoencoder for Convolutional Expression Transfer Using Neural Generative Adversarial Networks): Telecommunications
[ NewsRx.com/Telecommunications Weekly]
Released: Monday, February 13, 2023 12:00 AM2023 FEB 13 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Telecommunications Daily -- Current study results on Telecommunications have been published. According to news reporting from Paris, France, by NewsRx journalists, research stated, "In this paper, we present FaceTuneGAN, a new 3D face model representation decomposing and encoding separately facial identity and facial expression. We propose a first adaptation of image-to-image translation networks, that have successfully been used in the 2D domain, to 3D face geometry."
Financial supporters for this research include French National Research Agency (ANR), European Commission.
The news correspondents obtained a quote from the research from InterDigital Inc., "Leveraging recently released large face scan databases (FaceScape and CoMA), a neural network has been trained to decouple factors of variations with a better knowledge of the face, enabling facial expressions transfer and neutralization of expressive faces. Specifically, we design an
adversarial architecture adapting the base architecture of FUNIT and using SpiralNet++ for our convolutional and sampling operations. Applied on these two datasets, FaceTuneGAN has a better identity decomposition and face neutralization than state-of-the-art techniques."
According to the news reporters, the research concluded: “It also outperforms classical deformation transfer approach by predicting blendshapes closer to ground-truth data and with less of undesired artifacts due to too different facial morphologies between source and target.(."
This research has been peer-reviewed.
For more information on this research see: Facetunegan: Face Autoencoder for Convolutional Expression Transfer Using Neural Generative Adversarial Networks. Computers & Graphics, 2023;110:69-85. Computers & Graphics can be contacted at: Pergamon-elsevier Science Ltd, The Boulevard, Langford Lane, Kidlington, Oxford OX5 1GB, England. (Elsevier - www.elsevier.com; Computers & Graphics - http://www.journals.elsevier.com/computers-and-graphics/)
Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Quentin Avril, InterDigital Inc., Paris,
France. Additional authors for this research include Nicolas Olivier, Kelian Baert, Fabien Danieau and Franck Multon.
HPA 2023: Advanced HDR by Technicolor Offers Efficient and Cost-Effective Path to Enhancing Production and Distribution of Live, Episodic and Theatrical Content
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February 20, 2023 7:15 PM | 4 min read
The Advanced HDR by Technicolor team demonstrates its latest solutions to enable the transition from today's complex environment to an all-HDR future in a creatively faithful, technically viable and economically rational manner.
PALM SPRINGS, Calif., Feb. 20, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Significant new developments in the conversion of standard dynamic range (SDR) content libraries to high dynamic range (HDR) along with the distribution of live broadcasts -- especially sports -- are opening new frontiers of opportunity for the entertainment technology industry. So say Marty Gordon, vice president of brand partnerships at Philips, and Nick Mitchell, media solutions specialist with InterDigital in a podcast interview for journalists held during the HPA 2023 Tech Retreat this week in Palm Springs Calif.
HDR, explains Gordon, is making rapid progress in replacing legacy SDR as the next generation of TVs, streaming services and broadcast technologies enter the market.
"HDR is already a mainstream element in the development of episodic and cinematic productions, which is why analysts at Allied Market Research are projecting that the high dynamic range market will reach $126.74 billion (US) by 2030," says Gordon. "High dynamic range -- and many of the immersive formats we're seeing emerge in the industry -- amplify the creative palette. This ultimately results in a more immersive and impactful experience."
HDR specifically enables a broader range of colors and brightness offering new ways to control the viewing experience much more succinctly on screen. This means the contrast between the darkest darks and the brightest whites delivers a more lifelike, vibrant image. The greater nuance in bright and dark shades helps preserve detail, so the experience is far more immersive, engaging and life-like for consumers.
"For consumers, HDR absolutely provides a point of differentiation. When it comes to HDR, seeing really is believing. Once consumers experience HDR, it is very difficult for them to go back to standard dynamic range. Today, more and more consumers are hungry for premium in-home entertainment experiences, and HDR is increasingly seen by consumers as integral to meeting their growing expectations," says Mitchell.
A Technically Elegant and Cost-Effective Path to HDR
The key question on the minds of the entertainment technology ecosystem -- across the spectrum of content production, distribution and consumption -- is how to manage the transition from today's complex environment to an all-HDR future in a creatively faithful, technically viable and economically rational manner.
"It is important to understand the available content and the devices content providers and developers want to target. For studios with large libraries of material, ensuring that an HDR grade is available on all of the content in their portfolios can be incredibly costly and time-consuming if it is not approached in a strategic manner," explains Mitchell.
Another critical factor to consider while conducting these conversions is the ability to preserve the creative intent of the content. This is always important when dealing with content libraries. But it is also critical as the business models for digital entertainment distribution evolve.
"For instance, if the conversions from SDR to HDR are being performed in the context of advertising supported delivery environments, it is critical to take into account the intent of brands or advertisers who may play a role in the financing or the budgeting of that content," he cautions.
Putting Advanced HDR by Technicolor into Context
Advanced HDR by Technicolor, which features a unique intelligent tone management (ITM) toolset, enables high quality, dynamic, and real-time expansion of standard dynamic range to high dynamic range that preserves that creative and brand intent.
"Known as the SL-HDR format in the technical and standards-setting communities, Advanced HDR by Technicolor provides broadcasters and distributors with a single inventory distribution format to serve both SDR and HDR devices without any creative compromises. It saves infrastructure and delivery costs along the way," says Mitchell.
The single stream production and distribution features of Advanced HDR by Technicolor make it a cost-effective solution for ensuring that the highest quality productions maintain their integrity across today's heterogeneous SDR/HDR environment.
"During HPA we are planning to have conversations with streamers, advertisers -- really anybody that is using streaming technology -- to help people understand where Advanced HDR by Technicolor can be put into place to enhance the services they offer and the value they deliver to consumers around the world. It's really important for leaders in the creative community to understand that HDR is an entertainment technology that will elevate value delivered to consumers in a cost-effective manner," concludes Mitchell.
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Paullee, I am on a computer running Windows. First, I line up the columns using notepad (notepad.exe). I then cut/paste the formatted table of numbers in notepad into a new Investorshub message post, highlight the whole message text in that new post, then select the "Pre" formatting option to the left of the new message text to preserve the format of the table in the new post. I then select the Preview button just to confirm the format of the new message will be preserved when posted.
Montey, great
can you explain how you reformatted that, I have never figured it out
Paulee's message reformatted to be easier to read..
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30-Dec-22 inc/dec 30-Sep-22
BlackRock Inc. 5,117,381 (1,874,410) 6,991,791
Vanguard Group 3,474,662 (2,912,558) 6,387,220
FIL Ltd 1,150,976 1,150,976 0
State Street Corp 1,027,006 (1,176,836) 2,203,842
Dimens'l Fund 966,699 966,699 0
Disciplined Growth 791,400 791,400 0
Boston Partners 711,431 711,431 0
Renaissance 676,911 676,911 0
Boston Trust 615,013 615,013 0
Geode 561,714 (1,418,252) 1,979,966
Shannon River 491,748 491,748 0
B of N Y Mellon 446,559 69,139 377,420
Neumeirer 444,070 444,070 0
Capital Mgt 398,159 398,159 0
D. E. Shaw 393,159 93,207 299,952
Chas Schwab 386,379 (432,211) 818,590
Northern Trust 330,526 (665,308) 995,834
Interesting ownership changes
30-Dec-22 inc/dec 30-Sep-22
BlackRock Inc. 5,117,381 (1,874,410) 6,991,791
Vanguard Group 3,474,662 (2,912,558) 6,387,220
FIL Ltd 1,150,976 1,150,976 0
State Street Corp 1,027,006 (1,176,836) 2,203,842
Dimens'l Fund 966,699 966,699 0
Disciplined Growth 791,400 791,400 0
Boston Partners 711,431 711,431 0
Renaissance 676,911 676,911 0
Boston Trust 615,013 615,013 0
Geode 561,714 (1,418,252) 1,979,966
Shannon River 491,748 491,748 0
B of N Y Mellon 446,559 69,139 377,420
Neumeirer 444,070 444,070 0
Capital Mgt 398,159 398,159 0
D. E. Shaw 393,159 93,207 299,952
Chas Schwab 386,379 (432,211) 818,590
Northern Trust 330,526 (665,308) 995,834
jealmc79, Yes when you own an option you can enact anytime at any price. In your example you can do it if you have an extra $85M on you but the only way you are guaranteed to get the shares is the way they did it. When you sell an option whoever owns it may or my not deliver. It does happen, I usually have about 50 sold options a year in the money that they do not enact. I can not tell you why, but they do not enact them. If you look at December options, they show a bias to the upside.
Vegas, Just cause the call options are out of the money doesn’t mean their worthless. What happens if you bought the $85 call options and on the day of expiration the stock is at $84. What keeps you from exercising them just before closing on expiration forcing the guy who is short to deliver the million shares. Actually, the calls are your guarantee that he delivers those shares. Don’t know that he would be required to deliver the puts shares even though they are below the strike price and supposedly worth something something to the short position. How does he come up with 2 million shares by settlement day?
It was spread across many bars and golf locker rooms. First ballot.
vegas.... a trade like this is used for purpose of leverage.....think about it....you can control a million shares and generate a positive cash balance....but you still need to have a large marginable portfolio to back up the margin requirements of being a put seller ..which are substantial....its definitely a hedge fund type trade....if you're the dealer your main thing is the financing rates along with the time decay and the underlying volatility...and thats all baked into the spread between the current price of the stock ...and what was paid synthetically .my guess is the dealer is now clear or fully hedged.....most likely he had a working order....as it was done in pieces and at different strikes.... the risk now lies with the put seller...because he is long the stock...fancy shooting....thanks for pointing it out to the crowd
dave...im still using that line when im breaking chops
just wanted to be sure that you knew....those shares had to come from somewhere...if i was the trader at the options firm....my most direct hedge to to buy the shares from someone....there easily could have been a million share seller out there right before the tender
My, we go back a long time. My wife is reading the posts to me while my eyes are healing and I broke out laughing when you mentioned your son. I recalled a post by you to another Irish poster when you said you lined the kids up every night to smack them around because they were 1/8th Irish. That was a first ballot Hall of Fame funny reply.
teecee56, of course the other side of he trade has to cover themselves, but up to this point it has not shown up in options. They could already have a long and want to exit the position. It's current effect could be IDCC's increased volume.
jealmc79, There is a month to expiration. Anything can happen between now and then. The stock could be $90 so you need the calls. The stock could be $70 so you need the puts. Yes one side is going to expire worthless. It is also known that it will cost them $74.3M. Whoever it is has very deep pockets. Now to possibly confuse you even more if there is a special dividend that goes X between now and then the options will decrease by that amount.
Paullee do you recall the UK patent where the judge ruled the patent would have been infringed if he did deem the patent invalid.
Is this the patent that was just reinstated and found to be valid by the UK appeals court?
Thanks.
vegas....one thing....you cant create synthetic shares on an options trade....and not have it effect the market....by selling the deep in the money puts....that effectively buys the shares from the market.for the put seller...the calls are a minor part of the trade being deep out of the money..although the dealer is also short those calls....so the dealer taking the other side of the trade...is not going to stay short shares and calls of idcc just because somebody wanted to buy idcc stock....most likely the dealer will hedge by buying other idcc options and shares to hedge his short position in idcc.... the flow definitely finds its way to the market in one way or the other....i know how this stuff works...my son works for the aforementioned options firm as a sales trader
“ 1 side becomes worthless”
I’m not asking you to quit reporting the options. I know how options work. It’s just that when they are used in this combination, if you run the numbers, it just doesn’t make a lot of sense for at least one side in this transaction.
As for me, please continue with the options discussion. EOM
jealmc79, I think that you do not realize that always in this type of trade 1 side becomes worthless. I will use the strike price of 80. If the stock closes below 80 in theory you will get your M shares put to you. If it closes above 80 you will call them away from someone. Now you may ask why. Let's say the stock is $75 why would you pay $80 on the call side when you are getting M shares being put to you. You might buy more shares at $75, but no one is going to pay $5 a share over market. I hope that this makes sense to you. Should you want I will stop reporting option plays.
dont overthink it...vegas is correct...somebody has taken several synthetic solutions to buying shares for one reason or maybe two or three for all we know..pros have accommodated their action [think fan duel]....all i know is...WE'RE IN PLAY!!!
“There are no dividends involved in this case. when you enact your options if they do not have the shares available will be short. The reason that this is done is to buy 1M shares without moving the market.”
There are 2 sides to each transaction so there are actually 2M shares in play here. To guarantee you get the 1M shares you would use the call you bought to get them. Then you could also be on the hook to come up with the cash to pay for 1M shares because of the put you sold. So essentially it would be 2M shares @ $79.65/share. Don’t know why anyone would be taking up this kind of position unless it was a prelude to a takeover.
The other side would have got the dividends on 2M shares, if any dividends were involved, and they weren’t short the stock. I don’t know if any of the transaction took place before the ex-dividend date or not. I haven’t even begun to figure out this side of the transaction or how they would make any money if they are short the stock or not.
jeal....the entity that took the other side of the options trade....is most likely a professional options dealer like Susquehanna.....in the end....the trade is all about the financing and risk management behind the trade... which a dealer can do do better than anyone else
jealmc79, Even if it is B of A, unless it is a fund selling off their IDCC ( not likely as not many have 1M shares as V, F and B are ETFs and can not sell unless to balance) it will just move their short to the new party.
jealmc79, when you sell an 85 put you only get the put money , You are liable for the $85 to the person that sold you the puts. The person selling the call does not have to have the stock available as most calls expire worthless. .The reason someone does this is they now know that whatever happens they are buying 1M shares at $74.30 per share. There are no dividends involved in this case. when you enact your options if they do not have the shares available will be short. The reason that this is done is to buy 1M shares without moving the market.
Maybe BOA is the one that sold the short position in this deal. That would explain a lot.
“Since it is now over 1M synthetic shares”
I don’t see how synthetic shares make much if any sense. If you sell an $85 put you have to have the $85 in your account or margin in case the stock is put to you and the person selling the call would have to have the stock available in case he got called out. I don’t see where there is any leverage in either case. Either way you are putting up $74.30 in cash or stock to cover your position in the end. Maybe I’m missing something here but I don’t know what it is even if margin is used it gong to cost you. The person selling the calls would at least get to collect any dividends in the meantime. The person selling the puts doesn’t seem to get anything.
Thought we would end up closer to $75.00
We can only hope. We won’t have to wait long to know the answer.
Task 1, they would pick the 85 because you get paid a lot more for the puts. The calls cost 20 cents but the puts are $10.90. On 100K shares they got paid $1,090,000 and had to pay $20,000 for the calls netting them $1,070,000. Of course on March 17, to enact it they owe $8,500,000. So it costs them $7,430,000 or $74.30 per share and they have 100K shares. Since it is now over 1M synthetic shares, I hope that it is a new entity starting a new position.
Thanks Vegas for the quick response. I always enjoy when you post since you’re so knowledgeable. Is the 85 strike price in such a short period of time a good harbinger or not necessarily?
Task1, if you buy the calls and sell the puts at the same strike price in the same size you have effectively created synthetic shares. The only caveats being on expiration day the share price ends exactly on the strike price or whoever you sold the puts to refuses to put the stock to you ( in which case you keep the money for the puts).
What exactly does that mean Vegas? I’m a long, long term holder but not that well versed in the options market. Thanks in advance.
A new 125,000 synthetic shares were just created on the March 85's
Vegas, think video. Also, recall CDMA went to them in mid-90s. They did look at us again with 4G and 5G patents but were able to work around. I don’t know if our 6 G work has drawn their attention or our video applications. Something has attracted them, imo.
They have now made approx. 800,000 synthetic shares on the March 80's and 100,000 synthetic shares on the 85's. Love to see that they are moving their short to a new player.
Monterey2000, I do not understand how Q is a suitor. They have licenses with everyone for mobile phones. So if they buy IDCC they would not be able to charge 1 cent more for the new patents. I believe it would have to someone that is not in the cell phone patent market. It could be an OEM that is interested in cross licensing.
Agree, I was just thinking based on vegas options post saying the conv notes were hedged to $125 and with Q being a possible suitor. I would include Apple as a possibility given its desire to replace the Q chip with one of its own.
Monterey, who knows? The forthcoming court decisions and the mandated arbitration decisions could change value on everything. I don’t project details or expectations. I live in a day tight compartment. I plan, but I don’t live in the plan until it is here.
I just exercised 130 of my March 52 1/2 calls and I still own more than 50% of open interest. Someone just got a good morning.
I remember the Cicso guy. That was a long time ago. Agree, still a possibility, although I'm still feeling Q. Thought it would have happened by now, though. Possible that the deal is done with specific price parameters in place based on stock price or specific event outcomes? I love a unifying theory of everything. LOL
Would an IDCC 1:1 stock merger with QCOM that would come with Q's $3 annual dividend be acceptable? I am thinking yes.
I don’t remember that but I agree with you it is feasible, especially after their recent financial surprise report. However, imo, Q is heavily invested as demonstrated by the transfers from Q to IDCC. I have found these kinds of moves are the final steps upon which evaluation results either move to buy-out or let it pass.
If it is determined by Q to be of future value, and Cisco makes a move, we’ll see a bidding event. We gave Q CDMA which enabled them to become the power they are today ( and enabled IDCC to survive). I am of the opinion Q May now want the whole package.
rich...i forget who he was....but there was always a guy who said that the eventual buyer of idc would be cisco...if you think about it,,,it makes some sense....the "wireless network" at this point....really has become a network within the total network...with data connections being passed back and forth between fixed and mobile networks seamlessly...
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