Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Google Buys Parrot To Assist YouTube

Google has paid for Irish firm Green Parrot Pictures in a bid to upgrade the high quality of video uploaded to YouTube.

The Dublin-based firm specialises in picture estimate to improve, for example, ill temper and camera shake.

Its technology has already been used by a few large Hollywood movie studios on cinema such as X-Men and Spiderman.

Google mentioned that Green Parrot's technology would complement the look of videos posted on its site whilst using bandwidth more efficiently.

A statement, posted on Green Parrot Pictures' website said: "We're vehement to come together Google, where you will request the skill to upgrade the online video experience for hundreds of millions of users worldwide on might not similar products, platforms and services."

Green Parrot Pictures was founded 6 years ago by Dr Anil Kokaram, an friend highbrow with the college of engineering at Trinity College, Dublin.

Google, that owns YouTube skeleton to use Green Parrot's technology to perform on-the-fly credentials estimate on user videos.

Writing on the authorized YouTube blog, Google's executive of video technology, Jeremy Doig said: "What if there was a technology that could upgrade the high quality of such videos -- heightening the image, shortening visible sound and digest a higher-quality, steadier video -- all whilst your video is simply being uploaded to the site?

"You can suppose how vehement you were when you detected a small, desirous firm formed in Ireland that can do precisely this."

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