1、H.264/AVC 是ITU与ISO联合制定的视频编码标准

国际标准不代表免费

2、H.264的版权由美国MPEG-LA公式专门负责

收费说明：

http://www.mpegla.com/main/programs/AVC/Pages/Agreement.aspx

收费标准：

http://www.mpegla.com/main/programs/avc/Documents/avcweb.pdf

http://www.mpegla.com/main/programs/avc/Documents/AVC_TermsSummary.pdf

分成2大部分：硬件与软件

 

For (a) (1) branded encoder and decoder products sold both to End Users and on an OEM basis for incorporation into personal computers but not part of a personal computer perating system (a decoder, encoder, or product consisting of one decoder and one encoder = “unit”), royalties (beginning January 1, 2005) per Legal Entity are 0 - 100,000 units per year = no royalty (this threshold is available to one Legal Entity in an affiliated group); US $0.20 per unit after first 100,000 units each year; above 5 million units per year, royalty = US $0.10 per unit. The maximum annual royalty (“cap”) for an Enterprise (commonly controlled Legal Entities) is $3.5 million per year 2005-2006, $4.25 million per year 2007-08, $5 million per year 2009-10, and $6.5 million per year in 2011-15.

品牌的编解码产品：

　

2005-2006

2007-2008

2009-2010

2011-2015

100,000

0

0

0

0

100，000-500,000

0.2 $/unit

0.2 $/unit

0.2 $/unit

0.2 $/unit

500,000以上

0.1 $/unit

0.1 $/unit

0.1 $/unit

0.1 $/unit

　

　

　

　

　

最高年费

3.5 m$

4.25 m$

5 m$

6.5 m$

 

unit指单个decoder、单个encoder 或者包含一个decoder和一个encoder的产品

对于软件服务提供商，收费标准是：

100,000 or fewer subscribers = no royalty 100,001 to 250,000 subscribers = $25,000 250,001 to 500,000 subscribers = $50,000 500,001 to 1,000,000 subscribers = $75,000 greater than 1,000,000 subscribers = $100,000

 H.264 patents: how much do they really cost?

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/h-264-patents-how-much-do-they-really-cost/2122

 

专利池中专利分布：

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/h-264-patents-how-much-do-they-really-cost/2122

拥有专利的26家企业：

•Panasonic Corporation (377) •LG Electronics Inc. (198) •Toshiba Corporation (137) •Fraunhofer‐Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (82) •Microsoft Corporation (65) •Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (57) •Sharp Corporation (54) •Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (42) •Sony Corporation (29) •Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (18) •Fujitsu Limited (16) •The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (9) •NTT DOCOMO, INC. (9) •Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation (7) •France Télécom, société anonyme (7) •Robert Bosch GmbH (5) •Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (4) •Scientific‐Atlanta Vancouver Company† (4) •Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (3) •Hitachi, Ltd (2) •Victor Company of Japan, Limited (2) •DAEWOO Electronics Corporation (2) •Siemens AG (2) •Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (2) •Apple Inc. (1) •Sedna Patent Services, LLC (1)

拥有专利的44个国家

Countries with more than 100 patents

JP (226), US (169), KR (130)

Countries with 51-100 patents

CN (54), GB (51)

Countries with 21-50 patents

DE (44), FR (44), IT (38), NL (34), ES (26), MX (23)

Countries with 11-20 patents

AU (20), HK (19), SE (19), FI (16), CA (16), ID (16), RU (15), TW (14), DK (14), AT (14), HU (12), BE (12), CZ (11), TR (11) 原文地址： http://blog.csdn.net/cmsbupt/article/details/11045395

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