Luxxon Corporation, a leading provider of adaptive streaming media technology, has unveiled its LUX2 multimedia processor, which enables device manufacturers to integrate compelling multimedia capabilities into wireless devices. The LUX2 includes a flexible multi-codec processor that provides device manufacturers with an adaptive and high-performance solution capable of encoding and decoding open-standard-based audio, video and graphic formats, such MPEG-4, MP3, and MIDI. Wireless handsets and PDAs equipped with the LUX2 will provide wireless users with the ability to send and receive the widest range of streaming media content.

As device manufacturers worldwide work to develop next-generation mobile devices equipped with full multimedia functionality, they face a growing number of challenges and obstacles including how to handle the multitude of audio, video, and graphic formats as well as changing client device and network capabilities. In addition, multimedia services, such as sending and receiving streaming video, require significantly more power, which quickly drains the batteries on today's mobile phones and PDAs.

"Luxxon's LUX2 rich feature set and low power allow 2.5G and 3G phones to simultaneously support the rich media that the new wireless networks enable, while keeping the phone small and light-weight like today's phones that we have gotten used to," said Dave Singhal, president and CEO of Luxxon. "Our goal is to provide the technology infrastructure to device manufacturers that powers and enables wireless multimedia services and applications regardless of whether it is streaming video, multimedia messaging, music videos or games."

The highly-adaptive multimedia processor technology of LUX2 enables device manufacturers to build wireless phones and PDAs that feature a multitude of rich media capabilities, including: a built-in camera that would allow a field worker to record MPEG-4 and send a video message to other workers; a larger full-color display on which an individual can watch such video messages and or view Internet music videos; game support using game acceleration for Java and non-Java games; MP3 capabilities for listening to music downloaded wirelessly; digital still picture capture in JPEG allowing a person to upload his or her picture from the phone to a wireless dating service; and high quality MIDI music support for better ring tones and Internet game support.

Device manufacturers are able to overcome the challenge of handling the plethora of formats in the market by integrating LUX2 into handsets and PDAs. LUX2 supports most of today's rich media formats (such as MPEG-4 enhanced with Luxxon's patent-pending error resilience technology, JPEG, MP3, MIDI, and GSM audio) as well as tomorrow's video, audio, music, and game formats. LUX2 also supports various proprietary formats. Unlike RISC or DSP software-based solutions, LUX2 provides this flexibility to device manufacturers with guaranteed high performance and longer battery life.