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AV Standard Draft Revealed
The Audio Video Coding Standard (AVS) working group released the final committee draft of its video standard and called for a verification of all patents involved in the draft.

If there are no objections to patent claims in the draft by December 10, it will be submitted to the Ministry of Information to make it an industrial standard in China, which may become a national standard next year said Huang Tiejun, secretary general of the working group.

The AVS working group, including 64 leading research institutes, universities and companies from home and abroad, aimed to formulate a Chinese audio and visual coding and decoding standard to change the situation that Chinese enterprises and consumers have to pay heavy royalties to foreign patent holders for devices like DVD players, digital TVs. (China Daily)

(11/27/2003)