Efforts by Faroudja generated more than 65 patents and provided technology licenses to consumer electronics companies, and helped receive three Technology & Engineering Emmy Awards (one for advanced encoding techniques, a lifetime achievement for Yves Faroudja, and one for HDTV upconversion used in network broadcast applications),[1][2] as well as numerous other awards.
Since 2007, the Faroudja brand and all associated video processing IPs are part of STMicroelectronics, an international semiconductor company, which now uses the technology in System-on-Chip (SoC) products.
Faroudja was the only company in the world that had the ability to detect the original frames of the film within the video stream and reconstruct an accurate image, free of motion artifacts containing full vertical resolution.
The highly acclaimed LD1 Line Doubler takes standard definition signals and converts them to higher resolutions with improved image quality, free of the usual NTSC artifacts (cross-color and cross luminance).
Faroudja's growth in integrated circuits expanded with design-wins in various consumer electronics products such as DVD players, projectors, AV Receivers and TVs.
The program helps properly initialize the video signal processing and optimize the LCD panel to produce an accurate picture.
The calibrated settings are stored in a video mode called “Faroudja Movie”, optimized for high-end TVs and Blu-ray HD sources.
[8] Faroudja DCDi Cinema was developed around higher performance 10-bit processing with extended picture enhancement controls, an active color management system and 3D Noise Reduction.
In addition, Response Time Correction (RTC) technology is included to compensate for the motion blur prevalent in LCD flat panels.