Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd. (TSE:6703) today announced it has developed “Audience Rating Information System” for IPTV, which will be offered to the Japanese market. The system collects viewership data to enable broadcasting companies to improve their services. “We are pleased to introduce OKI’s Audience Rating Information System using our eVideo technology to efficiently deliver high quality video over IP networks,” said Masa Saito, General Manager of IP Systems Division at OKI. “We have been proposing the technology to handle audience rating information to ASTAP, Asia’s communication standard organization and FG-IPTV in ITU, the UN’s agency for information and communication technologies, as we believe open standards are important in improving IPTV service and technologies. We will continue our activities within IPTV-GSI,...
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